In 2002, Batsheva Dance Company brought Naharin’s Virus to New York. Last July, the dancers of Batsheva’s Young Ensemble — every bit as gutsy and virtuosic as their main company counterparts — reprised it at the Joyce Theater. The choreography by artistic director Ohad Naharin is timeless, but the accompanying verbal diatribe, taken from a 1966
By Gdalit Neuman When Ohad Naharin, artistic director and principal choreographer of Israel’s Batsheva Dance Company, instructs his dancers to “groove” during their morning Gaga class, he wants them to tune into their body’s distinct rhythm and follow the flow. Naharin invented Gaga as a means of training his dancers to become “available” to movement