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Please note: This is a GAGA technique master class developed by Israeli Choreographer Ohad Naharin. This is not a class exploring Lady Gaga's choreography.

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 himself and others. “We become more aware of our form. We connect to the sense of the endlessness of possibilities. We explore multi-dimensional movement; we enjoy the burning sensation in our muscles, we are ready to snap, we are aware of our explosive power and sometimes we use it. We change our movement habits by finding new ones. We go beyond our familiar limits. We can be calm and alert at once.” – Ohad Naharin

This master class is part of a series of outreach events connected to the February 25, 2012 8pm performance of NEXT: ISRAEL at the Harman Center for the Arts. Paul Gordon Emerson debuts his new dance company, Company | E, with NEXT: ISRAEL, a program celebrating extraordinary choreographers with deep roots in Israel’s Gaga dance style. NEXT: ISRAEL is presented by the Embassy of Israel, Shakespeare Theatre Company, and Washington Performing Arts Society. For more information visit www.wpas.org.