Ohad naharin dance company

Profile: Naharin began his training as a dancer with the Batsheva Dance Company. He came to New York one year later at the invitation of Martha Graham to join her company, as well as to make use of a scholarship to the School of American Ballet.

After a year with the Martha Graham Dance Company, he continued his studies at The Juilliard School of Music as well as with Maggie Black and David Howard. He then joined the Maurice Bejart Company in Brussels for one season and made his choreographic debut in in the Kazuko Hirabayashi studio in New York.

From to he performed and worked in New York, where he lived with his wife; the dancer Mari Kajiwara who died of cancer in In he was appointed Artistic Director of the Batsheva Dance Company.

Choreography: Naharin has been the recipient of many awards and honors, including the Chevalier de l&#;Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French government in , two New York Dance and Performance (Bessie) Awards (for Naharin&#;s Virus at the Broo