Rehearsal

The critically acclaimed Batsheva Dance Company is considered one of the world's leading contemporary dance companies. Together with the Batsheva Young Ensemble, it has 36 dancers from Israel and all over the world.

The company was officially founded on 24 December 1964 by choreographer Martha Graham with the active support of Baroness Bathsheba de Rothschild.
Hailed as one of the world's leading contemporary choreographers, Ohad Naharin was appointed Artistic Director in 1990, propelling the company into a new era with his adventurous vision and distinctive choreographic identity. Naharin is the inventor of the Gaga movement, a language in its own right, a joyful dance with unusual and asymmetrical movements, where the essential thing is to become aware of one's own body in space.
In September 2018, Gili Navot became Batsheva's new artistic director.

by Ohad Naharin

July 10, 2025

Peter Handke’s play “Offending the Audience” (1966) challenges the notion of theatre as a space of pretense and representation, breaking down its mechanisms. Time inside the venue and outside it is one and the same. The dancers are simply the bodies they are, and the audience is an active and present partner in crime.
The use of the play deprives the viewers of the suspension of disbelief they crave. The audience becomes a body aware of its physicality, of being an active viewer, of its debasement, singularity, mental flexibility, and ability to undermine world orders.
The spoken, sung, written, and danced text spreads across the stage and comes together to form a concoction of beauty and pain. And when the rhetoric of “us” and “you” collapses, an endless stream of insults is hurled at the crowded hall.
Welcome, you pretentious lowlifes, motherland’s sycophants. You will be moving soon. Get ready.

The Parc de la Villette is a prime example of French expertise in urban transformation, as reflected in its exceptional architectural heritage. The park brings together the 19th-century Grande Halle, Bernard Tschumi’s Folies and the Géode, built between 1983 and 1986, as well as Jean Nouvel’s Philharmonie de Paris, which opens the park to the 21st century.
Going beyond the traditional park model, the Parc de la Villette stretches across 55 hectares in the north of Paris, where meadows, gardens, and buildings define its mission: to welcome cultural, educational, and sports activities for all audiences.
In this idyllic setting, La Villette’s cultural programming unfolds with eclecticism and ambition. Exhibitions, dance, circus, theater, and magic performances, as well as workshops for young and old alike, reflect the park’s commitment to imagining new ways of sharing experiences.