11-27 May 2022
Batsheva Dance Company / Ohad Naharin
Venezuela
With Venezuela, the Batsheva Dance Company and Ohad Naharin return to Chaillot’s stage for a genuine dance-fest. A company at the apex of their powers.
Venezuela explores context and interpretation. Based on duplication, it presents two executions of the same choreography. In each iteration, the cast, music, and lighting change, imbuing the same movements with different energies that challenge the audience to carry out a different reading. In a study of possibilities, of excess, Naharin demonstrates how diverse realms can be embodied in the same gesture, if we entrusted it to a different body. The piece is laced with cultural and political references: a Gregorian choir sings a hymn of deep sorrow, the dancers spit raunchy hip-hop bars by the late rapper Notorious B.I.G. at the audience, and white flags-cum-shrouds are drenched in paint and political tones. Venezuela explores reality and movement that overflow but also collapse under the downpour of meanings, running towards emptiness time after time, in vain. Repetitive and full of contradictions, they underscore the violence alongside beauty, the intensity in the absence of movement, and the elegance of chaotic movement.
Chorégraphie Ohad Naharin
Lumières Avi Yona Bueno (Bambi)
création et édition bande-son Maxim Waratt
Conseil musical Nadav Barnea
Costumes Eri Nakamura
Assistant d’Ohad Naharin et Eri Nakamura Ariel Cohen
répétitrice Natalia Petrova
Assistée de Omri Mishael
Avec Chen Agron, Yarden Bareket, Billy Barry, Yael Ben Ezer, Matan Cohen, Ben Green, Chiaki Horita, Sean Howe, Chun Woong Kim, Londiwe Khoza, Shir Levy, Adrienne Lipson,Ohad Mazor, Eri Nakamura, Gianni Notarnicola, Igor Ptashenchuk, Yoni (Yonatan) Simon, Hani Sirkis, Amalia Smith
PRODUCTION Batsheva Dance Company
coproduction Chaillot - Théâtre national de la Danse, Hellerau – European Center for the Arts, Dresde
soutiens Batsheva’s New Works Fund, the American Friends of Batsheva’s New Works Fund
Remerciements The Israeli Ballroom Dancing Fund
