ABOUT THE WORKSHOP
In our workshop, we will research movement through improvisation.
We will learn parts of our latest work Polarized.
By dealing with movement mechanisms and choreographic Structures, we will allow a new translation and interpretation of these materials.
EREZ ZOHAR
KORNELIA LECH
Photo by:ascaf avraham. www.behance.net/Ascaf
Erez Zohar started his dance training as a member of local companies including Hora Jerusalem and the Jerusalem Tap Dance Company, and he received several Sharett scholarships from the America-Israel Cultural Foundation as well as a grant from the Ministry of Culture and Education. A graduate of the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance’s high school, he joined the Batsheva Ensemble in 2002 and danced with Batsheva Dance Company from 2005-2012, rejoining the troupe from 2017-2019. At Batsheva, he performed in repertory by Ohad Naharin, Sharon Eyal, and Yasmeen Godder , Marlene Monteiro Freitas and premiered his own choreography in several Batsheva Dancers Create programs.
Erez began teaching Gaga in 2003 and has taught throughout Israel and around the world for the last 19 years.
since 2012 he stages Ohad Naharin works around the world . He is currently an independent dancer and creator as well as a certified therapist in the Ilan Lev method.
Kornela Maria Tamara Lech - artist, dancer, choreographer, teacher of Gaga Movement Language. She comes from Murowana Goślina near Poznań. A graduate of the Secondary School of Ballet in Poznań. In 2010, she started working at the Polish Dance Theater in Poznań, and in 2017 she was the first Polish woman to join the Batsheva Dance Company - The Young Ensemble. She was then invited as a guest artist to the Batsheva Dance Company to participate in Ohad Naharin's performance entitled "Last Work". She took part in numerous projects on the Polish art scene, she collaborated with recognized Polish photographers such as: Honorata Karapuda, Maciej Mańkowski, Maciej Zakrzewski, Eliza Krakówka, Szymon Brodziak, etc.
Currently she lives in Tel-Aviv as a freelance artist. Creating her own world with her partner Erez Zohar they just after the new premier of Polarized.
On a daily basis, she teaching her own classes, Gaga People/Dancers and co-creates with many local artists in Israel and Poland such as Miki Avni, Honorata Karapuda, Jakub Józef Orliński, Ohad Naharin, Roy Assaf, Shahar Binyamini, Inbal Oshman, Ronen Izhaki, Ori Moshe Ofri and Ilya Gefter, Noa Zuk and Ohad Fishof, Alexander Bronfer etc
