“Ohad raised the salaries, cancelled the custom of early leaving days for teaching, and worked to improve the work conditions in order to enable the dancers’ total commitment. KYR was the first work I learned. Mabul was the first work I co-created. There was a feeling of change in the perception of dance in Israel, a breakthrough, and we understood he was making it. There was a lot of audience and we saw how the audience was becoming younger. It was a time with a small number of dance groups and almost no freelancers, and then everything began to boil. Everything started because of him and we were part of this process of change. Ohad was daring in his choice of dancers and changed the way you thought of dancers. The transformation started with the wide understanding of what a dancer was. Until then, those who didn’t study at the Bat-Dor Dance Company school, didn’t count. But Ohad changed all that, because he was looking for enigmatic and charismatic people.”
Sandra Brown, Dancer, 1991-1995, Rehearsal Manager, 1995-2000