Batsheva at the Joyce.
http://www.thirteen.org/sundayarts/blog/performance/sneezing-and-dancing/874/
Have you ever seen a dancer sneeze during a performance? Me neither.
There must be some logical scientific explanation, but absent that, I’m guessing because they’re in a state of extreme focus. Whereas if you’re relaxed and just going about daily life, you’re at the mercy of involuntary actions like sneezing or coughing. Or when you get the hiccups — it always seems to be at home, in a relaxed state, and not at work or in public. Right?
And why I’m writing about not sneezing in a blog about Israel’s Batsheva Dance Company, I’m not entirely sure either. But Ohad Naharin’s style, “gaga,” is relaxed, taut, natural, formal, muscular, flowing, very difficult, and pedestrian, among many other things. It’s a combination of looking entirely organic while doing things that most of us would find impossible. No other company moves like Batsheva, particularly in work that’s been created in the last few years.
