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Decadance 2025
by Ohad Naharin
Performed by The Batsheva Ensemble - DurationApprox. 70 min
- 6.11.2025 At 20:30
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“Decadance is where we celebrate our repertoire, the playground in which we add or subtract and adapt pieces from our body of work. It is an opportunity to look at our work from different angles. More than anything, I love how Deca-dance allows the dancers to give their own interpretation, which is full of sublime moments.”
Ohad Naharin
Ohad Naharin created Decadance in 2000 to mark the tenth anniversary of his work in Batsheva Dance Company with ten excerpts from choreographies he created for the company. Since then, every season Naharin returns with the dancers to Decadance and presents new adaptations to iconic works from his repertoire as well as new pieces, meticulously curating and editing them into a captivating collage.
Decadance embodies the possibility of a piece to remain open-ended, forever becoming, never finite. This is an invitation to revisit compositions written for the body and the company’s diverse materials, to dive into them, remix them, look at them with fresh eyes, and sense ourselves in front of them time and again, but never the same.
– The show contains nudity.
– Please note, the performance includes text in Hebrew without translation to English.
Credits
Performed by the dancers of the Batsheva Ensemble season 2025-2026
Zoe Bayliss Nagar, Amit Ben-Yesh, Zachary Burrows, Jesse Callaert, DanDan Cohen, Shira Kestenboum, Nouhoum Koita, Larissa Leung, Ori Manor, Maya Marom, Roee Mazurik, Celia Merai, Naama Morad, Chase Peterson, Noga Sneh, Toam Suissa.
Apprentices: Eyal Elcharar, Lin Okubo.
- New choreographies of excerpts from
Seder (2007), Sadeh21 (2011), Yag (1996), Anafaza (2023), Kyr (1990), Three (2005), Zachacha (1998), Zorn (2021)
- Lighting Design
Avi Yona Bueno (Bambi)
- Costume Design
Rakefet Levi
- Fittings
Eri Nakamura
- Soundtrack Design and Edit
Maxim Waratt
- "There Was Always This Shadow, Always This Doubt"
David Grossman, From a conversation (Shalem College, 2022)
- Text
Maxim Waratt
- Text about the piece
Shira Vitaly
- Music
“You Belong to My Heart” / “Taboo (Tabu)” / “Always in My Heart” / “Isle of Capri” / “Patricia” / "Adios Mi Chaparrita" / “Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps” all performed by Pérez Prado & his Orchestra / “C'est Magnifique” by Nelson Riddle & his Orchestra / “I Can't Believe That You’re In Love With Me” by John Buzon Trio / “Hooray for Hollywood” by Don Swan & his Orchestra / “It must be true” by John Buzon trio / “Hava Nagila” by Dick Dale and the Del-Tones / “Echad Mi Yodea” by The Tractor’s Revenge / “Yag Line (Verlaine)” by John Zorn performed by Dani Makov & Avi Baleli / “Pictures” by Ohad Fishof & Maxim Warratt / “Stonewave for 6 Percussionists” by Rolf Wallin performed by Kroumata Percussion Ensemble / “Baphomet” by John Zorn / “Spiegel Im Spiegel” by Arvo Part / “Somewhere Over The Rainbow” by Marusha / “Sway” by Dean Martin / “Na Tum Jano Na Hum” by Lucky Ali & Ramya / “Meol” by Seefeel / “Do” by Chronomad / “You’re Welcome” by The Beach Boys
- World Premiere
2000, Suzanne Dellal Center, Tel-Aviv
photo by Ascaf 
Photo by Ascaf 
Photo by Ascaf
