Gaga Weekend Intensive with Maayan Sheinfeld

Gaga is an innovative movement practice created by Ohad Naharin – Artistic Director of Batsheva Dance Company from 1990-2018 and one of the world’s preeminent contemporary choreographers. 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 themselves and others.

Gaga/people Workshops
Friday, May 17th • 6:00 – 8:00pm @IMAC
Saturday, May 18th • 6:00 – 8:00pm @IMAC
$45/Workshop • Discounts are available when you register for multiple workshops and for university students and arts professionals. Please email indymovementartscollective@gmail.com for discount information if you are eligible.

Connect your body and imagination through a creative framework, increase your physical awareness, and experience the pleasure of movement in a welcoming, accepting atmosphere. Space will be limited to 25 attendees/workshop.

*For ages 16+. No previous dance experience required.

Gaga/dancers Workshops
Saturday, May 18th • 12:00 – 3:00pm (Location TBD)
Sunday, May 19th • 12:00 – 3:00pm @Phoenix Rising Dance Studios
$60/Workshop • Discounts are available when you register for multiple workshops and for university students and arts professionals. Please email indymovementartscollective@gmail.com for discount information if you are eligible.

Deepen your awareness of physical sensations, expand your palette of available movement options, enhance you ability to modulate your energy and engage your explosive power. Enrich your movement quality with a wide range of textures. Learn repertory by Ohad Naharin. Space is limited.

*For professional/advanced level dancers ages 16+.

Maayan Sheinfeld was born in Israel in 1992. She joined the Batsheva Dance Company in 2012 and has participated in the creation process for three of Ohad Naharin’s works: The Hole (2013), Last Work (2015), and Venezuela (2017) and has performed in many other works by Naharin. She has also participated in the creation process for Roy Assaf’s Adam (2016) and Marlene Monteiro Freitas’ Canine Jaunatre 3 (2017). In 2018, she received the Yair Shapira award for Excellent Dancer. Maayan teaches Gaga, Ohad Naharin’s repertoire, and improvisation and modern classes for various dance schools, studios, courses, auditions, and programs both for students and professional dancers. She was awarded the Outstanding Teacher prize in 2016 for her work with students in the semi finals of YAGP (Youth American Grand Prix) competition.