Gaga
ilDance is the official branch for Gaga - Ohad Naharin’s movement language, in Sweden. We work with different organisations, venues, dance companies, schools, universities, cities, regions and with individuals across the country to organise and facilitate Gaga activities nationwide. We work in complete collaboration and partnership with the Gaga Movement Ltd. head office in Tel Aviv and with certified local and international gaga teachers.
About Gaga – Ohad Naharin’s Movement Language
Gaga classes are based on a deep activation of the body and physical sensations. While class instructions are often imbued with rich imagery that stimulates the imagination, the layering of information builds into a multisensory, physically challenging experience. Gaga offers a workout that develops flexibility, stamina, agility, coordination, and efficiency of movement. The exploration of form, speed, and effort is accompanied by the playful investigation of soft and thick textures, delicacy and explosive power, and understatement and exaggeration. Ohad Naharin continues to develop and research his movement language, and the classes evolve and vary accordingly.
Join us in the studio and connect to your passion to move!
The language of Gaga originated from the belief in the healing, dynamic, ever-changing power of movement.
We facilitate and coordinate:
Gaga/dancers
Gaga/dancers deepens dancers’ awareness of physical sensations, expands their palette of available movement options, enhances their ability to modulate their energy and engage their explosive power, and enriches their movement quality with a wide range of textures. The classes are built on the same principles as Gaga/people classes but also employ the specific vocabulary and skills that are part and parcel of a dancer’s knowledge.
The layering of familiar skills with Gaga tasks presents dancers with fresh challenges, and throughout the class, teachers prompt the dancers to visit more unfamiliar places and ways of moving as well, unlocking the endlessness of possibilities. Dancers are guided to connect their effort to pleasure and to discover the virtue of silliness.
Gaga/dancers classes are open to dancers and advanced dance students aged 16+.
Gaga/people
Gaga/people classes offer a framework for users to connect to their bodies and imaginations, experience physical sensations, improve their flexibility and stamina, exercise their agility and explosive power, and enjoy the pleasure of movement in a welcoming, accepting atmosphere.
Throughout the class, participants are guided by a series of evocative instructions deployed to increase awareness of and further amplify sensation. Rather than turning from one prompt to another, information is layered, building into a multisensory, physically challenging experience. While many instructions are imbued with rich imagery, the research of Gaga is fundamentally physical, insisting on a specific process of embodiment. Inside this shared research, the improvisational nature of the exploration enables each participant’s deeply personal connection with Gaga.
Gaga/people classes are open to people aged 16+, No previous dance experience is needed.Gaga/online
A possibility to connect to your passion to move, dive into physical research and challenge your habits from the comfort of your home. Due to the ongoing situation with Covid-19, We currently offer and are able to organise limited Gaga/people and Gaga/dancers online classes in Sweden in partnership with other organisations.
Ohad Naharin’s repertoire classes and workshops
Repertoire workshops of Ohad Naharin’s choreographic works for professional dancers and advanced dance students.
“We become more aware of our form. We connect to the sense of the endlessness of possibilities. We explore multi-dimensional movement; we enjoy the burning sensation in our muscles, we are ready to snap, we are aware of our explosive power and sometimes we use it. We change our movement habits by finding new ones. We go beyond our familiar limits. We can be calm and alert at once.”
– Ohad Naharin