In 1974, electronic music pioneer Isao Tomita released the album Snowflakes Are Dancing, completely revolutionizing musical programing. 35 years later, Ohad Naharin presents Hora – a piece for 11 dancers inspired by Tomita’s music. Like Tomita, who reimagined familiar classics with a synthesizer, Naharin places us between the familiar and the foreign: Hora is an evergreen bubble outside of time and space, natural and synthetic, permanent and everchanging.

Simultaneously primordial and futuristic, the bodies set out to formulate a new language that draws on – and pushes away from – familiar quotes. They embody the beauty of the struggle to remain distinct in the togetherness, creating a futuristic folklore and composing a new movement code, only to undo it in the exploration of body territories longing to be discovered.