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Hora
Ohad Naharin

In 1974, electronic music pioneer Isao Tomita released the album Snowflakes Are Dancing, completely revolutionizing musical programing. 35 years later, Ohad Naharin presents Hora – a piece for 11 dancers inspired by Tomita’s music.

Like Tomita, who reimagined familiar classics with a synthesizer, Naharin places us between the familiar and the foreign: Hora is an evergreen bubble outside of time and space, natural and synthetic, permanent and everchanging. Simultaneously primordial and futuristic, the bodies set out to formulate a new language that draws on – and pushes away from – familiar quotes. They embody the beauty of the struggle to remain distinct in the togetherness, creating a futuristic folklore and composing a new movement code, only to undo it in the exploration of body territories longing to be discovered.

Dedicated to Sofia Naharin
Choreography:Ohad Naharin
Lighting & Stage Design: Avi Yona (Bambi) Bueno
Music:
Music arranged and performed by Isao Tomita

Catacombs – composed by Modest Mussorgsky; Aranjuez – composed by Joaquín Rodrigo; Space Fantasy: Theme from “2001: A Space Odyssey” [Also Sprach Zarathustra] – composed by Richard Strauss; Die Walküre: Ride of the Valkyries, Tannhäuser: Overture – composed by Richard Wagner; The Unanswered Question – composed by Charles Edward Ives; Peer Gynt/ Solveig’s Song – composed by Edvard Grieg; Star Wars – Main Title – composed by John Williams; World of Different Dimensions – composed by Jean Sibelius; Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun – composed by Claude Debussy; Suite Bergamesque, No. 3: Clair de Lune – composed by Claude Debussy

Data Matrix by Ryoji Ikeda

Text about the piece: Shira Vitaly

Sound Mastering: Nir Klajman
Sound Design & Editing: Maxim Waratt
Costume Design: Anna Mirkin
Bench Design: Amir Raveh
Original casts:
Yaniv Abraham, Danielle Agami, Nir Benita, Shachar Binyamini, Matan Daskal, Matan David, Iyar Elezra, Ariel Freedman, Shani Garfinkel, Doug Letheren, Andrea Martini, Bosmat Nossan, Rachael Osborne, Ella Rothschild, Michal Sayfan, Mami Shimazaki, Guy Shomroni, Bobbi Smith, Tom Weinberger, Adi Zlatin, Erez Zohar

Duration: approx. 60 min.

Co-produced by: Montpellier Danse 2010 and Lincoln Center Festival, New York
World Premiere – May 18, 2009 – Jerusalem Theater, Jerusalem, Israel

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