The Hole
Ohad Naharin

Welcome to the hole – a place of infinite potential and constant dissolution; an octagon of perfect order and an underground club of chaos and lust.

“The Hole” is all the holes – the hole in the heart and the hole in the budget, an exit hole and an entry hole, a peephole and the hole in the ozone layer, a birthing hole and a burial hole. It is a stubborn wish to live alongside death or to live despite death.

Welcome to everywhere and nowhere, the origin of the world and oblivion.

The work has two casts (“Dani” and “Nomi”)

Choreography: Ohad Naharin
Lightning Design: Avi Yona (Bambi) Bueno
Space and Stage Design: Zohar Shoef
Costume Design: Ariel Cohen
Soundtrack Editing: Maxim Waratt
Assistant to Ohad Naharin and Maxim Waratt: Guy Shomroni
Graphic Design: Roni Azgad
Space and Stage operation – TechArt, Stage Technologies ltd.

Original Cast: Stephanie Amurao, William Barry, Shachar Binyamini, Matan David, Omri Drumlevich,
Bret Easterling, Iyar Elezra, Chen-Wei Lee, Eri Nakamura, Ori Moshe Ofri, Shamel Pitts,
Oscar Ramos, Nitzan Ressler, Ian Robinson, Maayan Sheinfeld, Bobbi Jene Smith,
Zina (Natalya) Zinchenko and Adi Zlatin.

Music:
Rephase – Team Doyobi; Akvaryum – Gevende; Diner – Angelo Badalamenti; Radio – Autechre
IV VV IV VV VIII – Autechre; La Sultane: Gravement – Frsncois Couperin; THE HERS – WE ARE OVER THE KOP; Affletic – Jus Wan; Starethrough – seefeel; By The Sea – Ennio Morricone; Shoshana and The Pigs – Maxim Warrat

Text about the piece: Shira Vitaly

60 Minutes

Originally commissioned for the Batsheva Dance Company
World Premiere- April 3 2013, Studio Varda, Suzanne Dellal Center, Tel-Aviv.

Warm thanks to Maya Dunitz for all her help.
Special thanks to the Kenny family and Eastronics for their friendship and support in maintaining Varda Studio in memory of Varda Kenny.