Batsheva Dance Company Tickets

About Batsheva Dance Company

Naomi Fortis, who is the wife of the famous musician Rami Fortis, is the General Manager as well as the Co-Artistic Director of the company. Other well-known personalities include names like Anna Sokolow, Gary Bertini and Robert Cohan.

The core of the company consists of passionate people. They all have a common motto: To excel in art and to strengthen common human values through the power of creativity. Batsheva has become one of the most important names in the field of “music and dance” all over Israel, since the formation of the company in the year 1964.

Ohad Naharin brought an all-together different flavor to the company in the year 1990, with his appointment as the Artistic Director. His appointment launched the company into a new era. The organization has been applauded in a lot of famous theaters and festivals, with having given over 200 performances all over the world.

The innovation factor has earned the company its reputation as one of the most inspiring companies all over the world. The company is certainly a leader in terms of being a well-built organization of performing arts on the global map. In one of his famous quotes, Ohad has explained the value of “Deca Dance in his life:”

"Deca Dance is not a new work. It is more about reconstruction: I like to take pieces or sections of existing works and rework it, reorganize it and create the possibility to look at it from a new angle. It always teaches me something new about my work and composition. In Deca Dance I took sections from different works. It was like I was telling only either the beginning, middle or ending of many stories but when I organized it the result become as coherent as the original if not more." - Ohad Naharin

Naharin is involved in a collaboration with lighting designer Bambi and costume designer Rakefet Levy since the 1990s. He was also awarded with the "Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres" in the year 1998. He later became a citizen of America.

"If you could hold one of Ohad Naharin's dances in your hand, it would feel smooth. Think of a polished stone. It looks like a piece of secret sculpture, but hurl it and it becomes a weapon." -- Deborah Jowitt, Village Voice

So I would like to recommend that in order to witness his bliss, you must experience his performances live! Go and grab your tickets.