Cutting-Edge Dance

Israel's Batsheva Dance Company
makes a return visit to Ann Arbor.

...

SATU RDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 2()O9

The Sunday performance
features Deca Dance, a
celebration of artistic
director Ohad Naharin's
work with Batsheva.

Suzanne Chessler

Special to the Jewish News

I

srael's Batsheva Dance Company
will perform two different pro-
grams when it appears in Ann
Arbor, but each will give a full sense of
the troupe's contemporary repertoire.
Three (2005) showcases a diverse trio
of choreography developed by Ohad
Naharin, Batsheva's artistic director
since 1990, and will be the featured
production Saturday evening, Feb. 14.
Deca Dance (2000) incorporates a
montage of excerpts from pieces mostly
created by Naharin during his first
decade with the company and will be
the focus for Sunday afternoon, Feb. 15.
Both performances, arranged by
the University Musical Society, will be
staged at the Power Center.
"The choreography of Three calls
attention to the silence between the

notes:' says Naomi Bloch Fortis,
executive director and co-artis-
tic director of Batsheva. "It's
about movement, not a story, and much
of the movement is intense and very
charged."
The three segments are "Bellus"
("Beautiful"), "Humus" ("Earth") and
"Secus" ("This/Not This"). The musical
styles range from Bach to the Beach
Boys. (There is a brief segment of some
nudity in the last portion of Three.)
"Deca Dance has a framework that
allows for changes in the program
because it includes segments from
both continuing dances and new piec-
es," Fortis explains. "The combinations
are always surprising and beautiful."
Batsheva, which has a senior com-
pany of 24 dancers and a junior com-
pany of 17 dancers, is currently tour-
ing to 16 venues in six weeks. Nearly
20 dancers, working to recorded music
from classical and modern scores,

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