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 Recall Action is two theater performances from Russia and Israel combining in one unique evening supported by Israel Embassy. Recall Action is an amazing attempt to join a Gaga technique with private styles of choreographers. Is the work with time, space and human unconscious mind. The ballet of Israeli dancers, choreographers and teachers Yaniv Abraham and Guy Shomroni was inspired by the contemporary Israeli Jewish author, professor of Japanese poetry, Buddhism, and philosophy at the University of Haifa Yoel Hoffmann and Scottish novelist, poet, film critic and journalist Gilbert Adair's books. The Russian choreographers Olga Prihudailova and Mariya Zaplechnaya have taken their characters and mise en scene from Pieter Bruegel de Oude's pictures with his idea of "recurring dreams". Gaga dance technique has formed the basis of Recall Action. Gaga is a movement language invented by the most important living Israeli choreographers Ohad Naharin. A former student of Martha Graham, artistic director and co-founder of the Israeli Batsheva dance company, he is now the sort of choreographer with whom Natalie Portman trains in preparation for Black Swan. But the sort of things Naharin likes to talk about are quite some distance from show business. "This morning I was just thinking about how balance is created by oppositions," he says. "Not in terms of standing on one leg, but a balanced state of mind, balanced muscle tone, a clarity of form. That you always need to be aware, and use both force and the opposing force." This is in the DNA of Gaga, the movement system that Naharin created and is famous for. It has been compared to everything from yoga and pilates to Feldenkrais and aikido. Developed in response to a back injury Naharin sustained, it has become the basis of Batsheva training and choreography. Rather than a technique or a vocabulary, it is a philosophy of how to use one's body; a toolbox that a dancer can use with any movement technique. "There are many things in it: the importance of yielding and collapse, of delicacy, connecting effort to pleasure, working without mirrors, learning to listen to your body before telling it what to do," Naharin says. Yaniv Abraham graduated from the MASPA (Mate Asher School of Performing Arts) under the direction of Yehodit Arnon, the founder of the Kibbutz Contemporary Dance Company. Soon after, Yaniv joined the Batsheva Ensemble in August of 2001. Abraham has been awarded the "America Israel Cultural Foundation" grant in 2003, 2004 and 2005. Two years after dancing in the Batsheva Ensemble, Abraham joined the main company under the direction of world renowned choreographer, Ohad Naharin and was a member of Batsheva until July 2010. In 2002, Yaniv became a Gaga certified teacher both for dancers and for non dancers. Since July of 2010, Yaniv has been teaching master classes, workshops and setting repertoire of Ohad Naharin all over the world and throughout Israel. Yaniv is now teaching Gaga on a regular basis in Tel Aviv at the Suzanne Dellal Centre. Guy Shomroni began dancing with Batsheva Ensemble in 2001 and joined the senior Batsheva Dance Company in 2004, where he performed numerous repertoire pieces by choreographers such as Ohad Naharin, Sharon Eyal, and Yasmeen Godder. Since leaving the company in 2012, he has served as Ohad Naharin's assistant in the creation process for The Hole (2013). Guy is also an active DJ in Tel Aviv's local scene, DJing at clubs and bars as well as DJing live for Batsheva Dance Company's performances of Session. Guy has taught Gaga since 2002 in Israel and overseas. He gives workshops for professional dancers and also teaches Gaga/people classes.
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