The Context.Diana Vishneva Festival dance troupe presents Hora. This is a 2009 production that the renowned Israeli choreographer Ohad Naharin transferred to Moscow and staged with the dancers of the Context troupe in March 2026.
Horos is Greek for dance, round dance. For Israelis, this word has its own very important meaning: hora is a dance of the Jewish renaissance, a round dance that unites souls. Ohad Naharin's Hora is a paraphrase of this dance and his own special view on rebirth and creation.
Shira Vitali: 'In 1974, Japanese composer Isao Tomita released the album Snowflakes Are Dancing, which completely changed the canon of electronic music programming. 35 years later, Ohad Naharin presented the performance Hora, a piece for eleven dancers inspired by Tomita's music. Similar to the composer who reinterpreted familiar classical works by Claude Debussy using a synthesizer, Naharin places us between the familiar and the completely unknown. Hora is an evergreen bubble that exists outside of time and space, both natural and synthetic, permanent and continuously changing. The characters of the performance comprehend a new bodily language, which, however, is based on familiar plastic quotes. Eleven dancers embody all the beauty of the struggle for individuality, even when merging into absolute unity. Relying on folk dance, they destroy it by creating new choreographic codes; they explore the territories of the body, wanting to be manifested.'
Ohad Naharin is a choreographer and creator of Gaga movement language. Born in 1952 in Kibbutz Mizra in northern Israel, he began his dancing career with the Batsheva troupe in 1974, and made his debut as a choreographer in New York in 1980. Ten years later, Naharin was appointed Artistic Director of the Batsheva dance troupe and founded its youth company Batsheva Ensemble. He has created more than thirty works for both companies, as well as productions for other companies, including the Netherlands Dance Theatre, the ballet of the Paris Opera, Les Grands Ballets Canadiens in Montreal and many other dance troupes around the world. In addition to working on stage, Naharin developed the Gaga system, an innovative technique for studying the movements and daily training of Batsheva dancers, which has spread worldwide among both dancers and non-dancers. After almost 30 years of leading the troupe, Ohad resigned as Artistic Director in 2018, but continues to work with the company as a choreographer. Batsheva also continues to be a place for Naharin where he conducts the Gaga research, development, and teaching.
The Context dance troupe was established in 2022 on the initiative of the contemporary choreography festival Context. Diana Vishneva. The company brought together dancers who possess not only high performing technique and creative ambitions, but also a breadth of creative views and a willingness to develop and experiment. Over the four years of its existence, the dance company has presented many premieres on the stages of the Bolshoi Theatre, the Tovstonogov Bolshoi Drama Theatre, the Yermolova Theatre, the Stanislavsky Electrotheatre; and managed to work with such Russian choreographers as Pavel Glukhov, Olga Labovkina, Oleg Stepanov, Anna Shchekleina, Alexey Rukinov, Rima Pipoyan, Kirill Radev and others. The Artistic Director of the troupe is ballerina Diana Vishneva.
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