A Conversation with Ohad Naharin: Israel, Dance & the Sydney Festival

Join our event with Israel Prize winning choreographer and contemporary dancer Ohad Naharin.
Over the last month, calls to boycott the Sydney Festival after it received sponsorship from the Israeli embassy for a production of Naharin’s Decadance have featured prominently on social and mainstream media.
One of Israel’s most celebrated cultural identities, our conversation with Naharin will canvas his work over more than three decades at the Batsheva Dance Company, the founding of the Gaga movement, his political activism, and the ongoing debate about the Sydney Festival and the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement.
He was joined in this event by New Israel Fund Australia executive director Liam Getreu.
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[@jankallish8264]

Well done, Liam! Thank you for such a brilliant, thoughtful and articulate interview of Ohad Naharin.

[@RVSurf]

Such an awakened word about the Do and not the thinking of doing it. I admire for years of his outspoken Truth that transpires in his work.

[@rul4522]

Ohad Naharin, you are in the moment.

[@anacristinatecpanecatl5438]

😠 hay mucha gente alrededor del mundo que no habla inglés, se agradecerían muchísimo los subtítulos en otros idiomas,

[@conniegarrison5471]

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[@desmondfaria4095]

What is Israel’s founding values, if Israel had any values they would let the Palestinians have at least half of their land back.

[@gisawslonim9716]

Why do you keep pushing Naharin to answer when he most obviously does not want to and is doing everything in his power not to do so. He shrugs his shoulders to show he does not have the answers you are putting into his mouth and he ducks his head to avoid more demands for answers. Your interview was invasive, pushy in the worst possible Jewish sense (and I am Jewish so i know what you were up to). It was a disgrace. You saw that he did not want to answer, did not want to get involved in this entire discourse but you pushed and pushed until you got what you wanted...it left a very bad taste in my mouth and in the very air around the entire interview. You got your pound of flesh, but at a very heavy price to you because it showed your crassness up in a blaze of spotlights! If I had been in Naharin's place I would have gotten up and walked out and it would have served you well had I done so!

[@marti7716]

💔 Promo-SM!