
Interview with Ohad Naharin on Walla
In August 2025, Ohad Naharin was interviewed for Walla website. This is an English translation of the Hebrew text.

In August 2025, Ohad Naharin was interviewed for Walla website. This is an English translation of the Hebrew text.

Gaga Movement is a private organization which does not receive financial support from the government of Israel, nor does it represent the State of Israel

Read Ohad Naharin’s message to the Gaga community.

In December 2023, Ohad Naharin was interviewed for Haaretz newspaper by Gili Izikovich.

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Gaga is a babyish word, an infant’s first nonsensical babbling, beckoning us to remain in alert and curious attentiveness to the world, in constant awareness to our sensations, simultaneously holding and releasing.

We asked several dedicated Gaga users, “What do you enjoy most about taking Gaga class?”

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Meet Gaga’s artistic director, Saar Harari, and learn about his connection to Gaga’s ever-evolving movement language.

I’ve not gotten lighter, and the earth’s gravity has not changed, yet somehow, my body has figured out a better way to get up.

I don’t know why I think touching the floor is shameful. Even Mikhail Baryshnikov has to touch the floor, albeit after eleven pirouettes.

I feel something release down the entire right side of my body. Energy starts to flow. I wonder if the teacher sees the expression on my face.

How can these two completely different sensations occur in the same body?

These classes are dialing up the sensitivity of my body’s antenna, extending it far into the space-time continuum.
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