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For the first time in Europe, we announce the Gaga Intensive Course in Barcelona, to be held from May 25th – 31st, 2012.

Intensive Details Danielle Agami and Michal Sayfan will be giving the first European Gaga Intensive Course in Barcelona this spring for professional dancers and dance students age 17+.

The course will be held from May 25th until May 31st, both included, from 11AM to 17PM each day. The schedule includes Gaga/dancers classes, Gaga methodics, and repertory.

Classes will take place at Espai Erre, C/ Àvila 124, 2n B, Barcelona. www.espaierre.net Price: 500₏.

Please note that participants are responsible for providing their own health insurance that will cover medical care in Spain for the duration of the program as well as for their own travel, food, and housing arrangements.

Registration has to be made through: http://gagapeople.com The space is limited to 50 dancers, so we urge you to sign up as soon as possible.

For further questions about the registration, please contact: gagausa1@gmail.com For further questions about accommodation and travel: gaga.barcelona@espaierre.net

Gaga, the movement language developed by Ohad Naharin Gaga is a new way of gaining knowledge and self-awareness through your body. Gaga provides a framework for discovering and strengthening your body and adding flexibility, stamina, and agility while lightening the senses and imagination. Gaga raises awareness of physical weaknesses, awakens numb areas, exposes physical fixations, and offers ways for their elimination. The work improves instinctive movement and connects conscious and unconscious movement, and it allows for an experience of freedom and pleasure in a simple way, in a pleasant space, in comfortable clothes, accompanied by music, each person with himself and others.

Gaga/dancers classes last for an hour and fifteen minutes and are taught by dancers who have worked closely with Ohad Naharin in Batsheva Dance Company. Gaga/dancers classes are built on the same principles as Gaga/people classes but also employ the specif ic vocabulary and skills that are part and parcel of a dancer’s knowledge. The layering of familiar movements with Gaga tasks presents dancers with fresh challenges, and throughout the class, teachers prompt the dancers to visit more unfamiliar places and ways of moving as well. Gaga/dancers deepens dancers’ awareness of physical sensations, expands their palette of available movement options, enhances their ability to modulate their energy and engage their explosive power, and enriches their movement quality with a wide range of textures.

Danielle Agami Danielle Agami was born in Israel in 1984. She studied at the High School of the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance and performed in Jerusalem’s Hora Dance Company. From 2002 through 2005, she danced with the Batsheva Ensemble under the artistic directorship of Ohad Naharin, and she was a member of Batsheva Dance Company from 2005-2010. Danielle was the artistic director of Batsheva Dancers Create from 2007-2009, and she served as the company’s rehearsal director from 2008-2010.

In 2009, Danielle received the Yair Shapira Prize for Excellence in Dance.

Danielle has presented her own choreography in several different frameworks. She created the duet Carmela (2007), the quartet Negolot (Unfolded) (2007), and Eva (2010), a work for seven dancers, for Batsheva Dancers Create. Lauteng (2007) was presented at Kibbutz Nachshon and The Kibbutz Gallery in Tel Aviv, while Atudot (Reserves) (2008) was shown at the Inga Gallery of Art in Tel Aviv.

Danielle’s work Dahlia (2010) was presented at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art as part of the retrospective exhibition of award-winning sculptor Dani Karavan, and it was subsequently staged at the The School of Visual Theater’s Dance-Video Festival in Jerusalem as well as in Berlin, Germany.

Danielle has been teaching Gaga, Ohad Naharin’s movement language, since 2003. She teaches classes both for professional dancers and for students without prior dance experience.

Michal Sayfan Michal Sayfan was born in Israel in 1983 and was raised in Rishon Lezion. A graduate of Nadine Bommer’s dance school and company, she danced in the Batsheva Ensemble from 2005-2008 and joined the Batsheva Dance Company in 2008. Michal has taught Gaga since 2006.