Decadance 2026 by Ohad Naharin Performed by The Batsheva Ensemble

“Decadance is where we celebrate our repertoire, the playground in

which we add or subtract and adapt pieces from our body of work. It is

an opportunity to look at our work from different angles. More than

anything, I love how Deca-dance allows the dancers to give their own

interpretation, which is full of sublime moments.”

Ohad Naharin

Ohad Naharin created Decadance in 2000 to mark the tenth anniversary of

his work in Batsheva Dance Company with ten excerpts from choreographies

he created for the company. Since then, every season Naharin returns with

the dancers to Decadance and presents new adaptations to iconic works from

his repertoire as well as new pieces, meticulously curating and editing them

into a captivating collage.

Decadance embodies the possibility of a piece to remain open-ended, forever

becoming, never finite. This is an invitation to revisit compositions written for

the body and the company’s diverse materials, to dive into them, remix them,

look at them with fresh eyes, and sense ourselves in front of them time and

again, but never the same.

* The show contains nudity.

*The performance includes text in Hebrew without translation

Credits

Performed by the dancers of the Batsheva Ensemble season 2026-2027:

Zachary Burrows, Victoria Chasse Dominguez, DanDan Cohen, Seth Gibson, Joey Gertin, Sydney Hirai, Shira Kestenboum, Kacper Lajewski, Yiftah Lustiger, Keke Niu, Lin Okubo, Daniel Paula, Chase Peterson, Noga Sneh, Toam Swisa, Chae Won Seo.

Apprentices: Mika Avraham, Hila Landsberg, Guy Rosenzweig, Maya Jackoby.

New choreographies of excerpts from

Seder (2007), Sadeh21 (2011), Yag (1996), Anafaza (2023), Kyr (1990),

Three (2005), Zachacha (1998), Zorn (2021)

Lighting Design Avi Yona Bueno (Bambi)

Costume Design Rakefet Levi

Fittings Eri Nakamura

Soundtrack Design and Edit Maxim Waratt

“There Was Always This Shadow, Always This Doubt”

David Grossman, From a conversation (Shalem College, 2022)

Text Maxim Waratt

Text about the piece Shira Vitaly

Music

“Issa Nore” by Maxim Waratt, “Train” by Goldfrapp, “Pictures” by Ohad

Fishof & Maxim Waratt, “Stones Start Spinning” by David Darling,

“Verlaine: Part I: Un midi moins dix” by John Zorn, “Al Ghariba” by Khader

Shama, “Riacho” by Guem, “Hava Nagila” by Dick Dale and the Del-Tones,

“Echad Mi Yodea” by The Tractor’s Revenge & Maxim Waratt, “Pan Sonic”

by Maxim Waratt, Excerpt from “Baphomet”, “Somewhere over the

Rainbow” by Harold Arlen, “Sway” by Luis Demetrio, “Nocturnes, Op. 9:

No. 2 in E-Flat Major” by Frederic Chpoin (performed by Arthur

Rubinstein), “Asia 2001 – Psykadelia”.

World Premiere 2000, Suzanne Dellal Center, Tel-Aviv

Photo by Ascaf