Company Premiere | YAG 2022
Gibney Company Up Close returns with YAG 2022, a reimagining of Ohad Naharin’s acclaimed 1996 work for Batsheva Dance Company. The work features six dancers whose relationships are gradually revealed through the work’s deft storytelling incorporating dance, speech, visual symbolism and imaginative staging.
New York Live Arts
219 West 19th St, New York, NY 10011
December 13-16, 7:30 PM
December 17, 2:00 PM & 7:30 PM
Tickets: $35
Opening Night Tickets & Reception: $75
Experience Gibney Company live! Gibney Company embarks on their first national tour to nine cities across the U.S. Learn more here.
About the Choreographer
Ohad Naharin is a choreographer and the creator of the Gaga movement language. Born in 1952 in Mizra, Israel, he began his dance career with Batsheva in 1974 and made his choreographic debut in New York in 1980. In 1990, Naharin was appointed Artistic Director of Batsheva Dance Company and established its junior division, Batsheva – the Young Ensemble. He has created over thirty works for both companies and set pieces on other companies including Nederlands Dans Theater, the Paris Opera Ballet, and Les Grand Ballets Canadiens de Montréal. In addition to his stagework, Naharin developed Gaga, the innovative movement research and daily training of Batsheva’s dancers that has spread globally among both dancers and non-dancers. After almost thirty years of leading Batsheva, Naharin stepped down as Artistic Director in 2018, though he continues to serve as House Choreographer. Batsheva will also continue to be the home of Ohad’s research, development, and teaching of Gaga. A citizen of both Israel and the United States, Naharin currently lives in Israel with his wife, dancer and costume designer Eri Nakamura, and their daughter, Noga.
About Gibney Company
Gibney Company is a world-class contemporary dance company that presents a breadth of works by emerging and renowned choreographers. Based in New York City at Gibney, a dance and social justice organization founded by Gina Gibney in 1991, the Company underwent an ambitious expansion and reinvention in 2020 following a major gift from Andrew A. Davis and the Shelby Cullom Davis Charitable Fund. Over the past few years, Gibney Company has commissioned new works and is building a repertory for performances in New York and around the world. Gibney Company dancers, known as Artistic Associates, support the Gibney organization’s mission as both artists and activists, advancing artistry through performance while also leading entrepreneurial advocacy projects.
Gibney Company Artistic Associate Zui Gomez. Photo by Whitney Browne.