- Dance
- 11 oct – 14 nov 2019, Main Stage.
- Approx. 2 h 45 min incl. intermission. More exact running time given near the premiere.
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Ensemble
Naharin’s virus
- Choreography and stage design
- Ohad Naharin
- Original music and musical advisor
- Karni Postel
- Arabic folk music arranged and performed by
- Habib Alla Jamal, Shama Khader
- Music
- Samuel Barber, Carlos d’Alessio, P. Stokes, P. Parsons
- Text (except for the dancers’ stories)
- Peter Handke
- Design, costume
- Zohar Shoef
- Costume design
- Rakefet Levy
- Lighting design
- Avi ”Bambi” Yona Bueno
- Ljuddesign
- Frankie Lievaart
- GöteborgsOperans Danskompani
Love
- Choreography
- Guy Weizman / Roni Haver
- Composer
- Frank Wienk
- Set design
- Ascon de Nijs
- Costume design
- Joris Suk (Maison the Faux)
- Lighting design
- Wil Frikken
- Live musicians from Slagwerk Den Haag and Asko|Schönberg ensemble
- GöteborgsOperans Danskompani
- Dancers from Club Guy & Roni
- Angela Herenda
- Camilo Chapela
- Adam Peterson
- Igor Podsiadly
- Harold Luya
- Sofiko Nachkebiya
- Bien De Moor
Tickets SEK 200-350. 8 shows. Can be included in Premiere, Weekday and Your Choice Subscriptions.
Virus/Love
Contagious dance. Virus/Love will be an intense evening of dance. What is real? What’s pretend? And what does it even matter anyway?
Dance creation by Ohad Naharin & Roni Haver/Guy Weizman
Naharin’s Virus
Creation by Ohad Naharin
Video director Tommy Pascal / Video production, Bel Air Media
The starting point of "Naharin’s Virus” the text ”Publikumsbeschimpfung” (Offending the Audience) by the Austrian playwright Peter Handke. It's an aesthetic manifesto beautifully embedded in virtuosic dance and rich classical, Arabic and techno music. GöteborgsOperans Danskompani is the first dance company besides Batsheva (where Ohad Naharin was director 1990-2018) which has been allowed to perform the piece. This is the dance company’s third collaboration with Naharin. Previous collaborations were the acclaimed dance production Max and Decadance Gothenburg.
Several languages are spoken during the performance of "Naharin’s Virus". Some parts will have Swedish surtitles.
Love
Creation by Roni Haver/Guy Weizman
Amazing lover, perfect parent, amusing friend and understanding soulmate. Sexy, too! Is that even possible? Can any one person be all of those things? Love is a portrait of love in the millennial generation, characterized by endless choices and a fear of missing out. It’s a frenzied pursuit of love as a cure for loneliness in a superficial world, where everything has a price. Roni Haver and Guy Weizman ("Director of the Year" in the Netherlands 2018) have previously danced with Ohad Naharin’s Batsheva Dance Company. Today, they run their dance company Club Guy & Roni, from which several of their dancers have been selected to participate in this performance with our company.
"Love" is a co-production with Club Guy & Roni, Slagwerk Den Haag and the Asko|Schönberg ensemble.
Open rehearsal
Wednesday 2 October, 6.30pm
Main stage
Come and watch the dance company rehearse one of the evening’s two creations. An exciting opportunity to see the company work together on stage and to get insight in the creative process leading up to a premiere. The rehearsal will be followed by a talk between artistic director Katrín Hall and the dancers.
Free entry with ticket, limited seating.
Introductions
Verbal introductions
All dance performances (except premieres and guest performances) begin with an introduction. These ordinary, verbal introductions give you interesting information about the creation, and start 1 hour before the performance. They last about 20 minutes and are held on the Small Stage.
Free admission, limited seating.
Physical introductions
GöteborgsOperans Danskompani now offers the participatory format of physical introduction to all interested in deepening their insight into the company’s performances. Physical introductions are held in English. The physical introduction for Virus/Love is based on the choreography in Guy & Roni's work "Love".
Open for everyone, these 1 hour physical explorations are a way of entering and experiencing various choreographic approaches, movement principles and aesthetic signatures. The physical engagement of audience members allows for a different perceptual contact with the performance, inviting the participants to connect and experiment within the physical (rather than just the visual) perspectives various works embody.
Led by the dancers of the company, physical introductions extend the performing space into a participatory, experiential environment, creating possibilities for a multitude of personal sensorial insights and exchanges. We invite all the interested participants to join us. Comfortable clothes and shoes advisable but not obligatory.
Free admission with ticket, limited number of places – max. 60 people per occasion.
Book your ticket to the physical introduction here
Dates for the physical introductions:
- 15/10 – 17.45–18.30
- 24/10 – 17.45–18.30
- 27/10 – 16.45–17.30
- 2/11 – 16.45–17.30
After-talk, Sunday 7 April, 20.45 - 21.45
Right after the show on October 27 there will be an after-talk with the dancers on the main stage. Then you get the possibility to ask questions and share your thoughts about the show. Be sure to book tickets for this evening if you want to learn more about the two works and the dance company. Artistic director Katrín Hall will lead the after-talk.
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8 performances
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