Batsheva Dance Company / Ohad Naharin Naharin's Virus
In Naharin's Virus (2001), some fifteen performers from the Batsheva Ensemble let themselves be carried away by a trance, that of Peter Handke's writing in ‘Outrage au public’ (1966). Spoken, sung, written and danced, the words spread across the stage in a masterly composition by choreographer Ohad Naharin.
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After discussions between the Batsheva Dance Company's artistic team and the directors of Chaillot and La Villette - in view of the current political context - it was decided to present Naharin's Virus instead of Anafaza, originally scheduled for July 25.
After discussions between the Batsheva Dance Company's artistic team and the directors of Chaillot and La Villette - in view of the current political context - it was decided to present Naharin's Virus instead of Anafaza, originally scheduled for July 25.
What is this virus made of that runs through the bodies of the performers and the audience? Is the theatre, as a place of performance, no longer just a place of illusion? Does time outside the auditorium become the same inside the theatre?
Almost 60 years after it was written, the Austrian playwright's text speaks to us of the urgent need to shake up the certainties of an increasingly complex world. Proclaimed by the dancers, the words are combined here with the power of gesture, the freedom of movement that is slow and round, fast and repetitive, wild and delicate.
A political piece created to traditional music, including that of Palestinian composer Habib Alla Jamal, as if to make a protesting presence even louder.
