Christina Gehrig
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IDOCs » Gaga – Ohad Naharin movement language
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In the Time of 2008-2010 I travelled several times to Israel to practice the gaga movement Languages of Ohad Naharin.
In this time I wrote about the classes and wrote together with Evelyn Klöti an Essay/Diary of what we experienced. Bellow I wrote in short sentences an example of a class experienced.
Basic Gaga-rules are: (own interpretation :)
A bunch of people constantly moving with the eyes open, following the tasks given by a teacher in a locked studio without mirrors – but with pleasure, passion and power…
“No dead flesh”
2015.07.20

Gaga-class “75” Minuten
- Individual floating 5. Min. on the spot each for himself a theme of the class: bones floating in the skin, thick, big skin, small skin, grapping skin
- Improvise in dancing with another person in space with the front and than with the back to the person
- Standing exercice: pliés, tendus rond de jambes, rolling downs and up
- On the Floor: Moving in going trough the "system"
- Floor crawling: in different directions
- Abdominal exercices
- Cooked spaghettis, shaking from low to high percent energy, dropping in the movement
- Push ups: On the spot and in space
- Awareness to the feet: Moving in Iona, Tashi, Ashi
- Standing back: improvising on one leg and the other, looking for a balance and stabilisation in the feet
- Partnering exercices: Happy Flesh
- Jumpes on the place/circeling through space
- Cold shower/shake into place
- Cooling down/using all the information of a class: 2-3 Min. own dancing to different music
Improvisation Class (with Yaniv dancer from the compagny this was part of a workshop done at gaga intensive)
- To move as a mover and a human being forgetting about what is a dancer and his attitudes.
- Free improvisation small groups and the other people watch and observe what they see.
- Enjoy and be silly don’t take yourself so important.
Each improvisation had different tasks and time structures (1.Min-10.Min) like:
- Moving in different structure/texture
- Different stories to change or develop stories
- Different state of mind
- Try to dance and be like someone else around you
- Getting in interaction with others
- Look at other people
The teacher can say change/or clapping in his hands and the moving people have to follow the advice.
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