{"id":1873,"date":"2009-10-20T22:32:05","date_gmt":"2009-10-21T05:32:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/?p=1873"},"modified":"2009-10-20T22:32:05","modified_gmt":"2009-10-21T05:32:05","slug":"tel-aviv-dance-2009-hora","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/?p=1873","title":{"rendered":"Tel Aviv Dance 2009: Hora"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tel Aviv Dance comes full circle with Ohad Naharin&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/?p=813 \" target=\"_blank\">Hora<\/a>. Once a festival of dance from Europe,\u00a0this year&#8217;s impressive program\u00a0extends not only to other parts of the globe, but celebrates Israeli contemporary dance with a performance by the Batsheva Dance Company at the Suzanne Dellal Centre, where Naharin and company make their home.<\/p>\n<p>The movement bears no resemblance to the folk dance many associate with the work&#8217;s title, yet there is something in the ensemble performance that reverberates with a wider network of images and emotions evoked by the word &#8220;hora&#8221;. Performed by 11 dancers who are onstage throughout the work, the allusive piece references other dance images through a soundtrack based on the works of Japanese musician Isao Tomita. Tomita works with a synthesizer, his transformations of classical pieces give the soundtrack a sense of what Freud called &#8220;the uncanny&#8221; &#8212; the encounter with something that is familiar and at the same time, strange. As with &#8220;hora&#8221; the distance between the visual onstage presence and images evoked by the familiar music of &#8220;L&#8217;Apres midi d&#8217;un faune&#8221; imbues the dance with a playful, perhaps slightly mischievous feeling.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<br \/>\n<object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/tgrEt7JuRxc&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1&#038;\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/tgrEt7JuRxc&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1&#038;\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object><br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Naharin said of this piece: &#8220;During the creation process of Hora, I emphasized the importance of nonsense and of our ability not to take ourselves too seriously and, more than anything, of the winning combination of the dancers&#8217; skills with their passion in dancing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Passionate, playful and immensely pleasing to the eye and spirit, &#8220;Hora&#8221; will be performed on October 27th at 21:00 at the Suzanne Dellal Centre in Tel Aviv. Tickets are available through Batsheva 03-510437 and the\u00a0Suzanne Dellal box office: 03-5105656.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tel Aviv Dance comes full circle with Ohad Naharin&#8217;s Hora. Once a festival of dance from Europe,\u00a0this year&#8217;s impressive program\u00a0extends not only to other parts of the globe, but celebrates Israeli contemporary dance with a performance by the Batsheva Dance Company at the Suzanne Dellal Centre, where Naharin and company make their home. The movement [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1873\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}