Deca Dance is a program of nine dances blended seamlessly together with no apparent narrative except the human condition. Different worlds are explored and transformed into something new. A vast range of themes moved between all that is pure beauty and all that is shockingly grotesque.
First performed in 2000, Deca Dance is a celebration of then 10 years of Naharin's work with Batsheva Dance Company. Highlighting many facets of his repertoire, Naharin reconstructs his oeuvre by taking sections of existing works and reorganizing them into a new fresh experience. Deca Dance offers the possibility to look at Naharin's repertoire, from its most extravagant to its most intimate and heartrending. Deca Dance continues still evolves to this day.
‹Deca Dance is not a new work. It is more about reconstruction: I like to take pieces or sections of existing works and rework it, reorganize it and create the possibility to look at it from a new angle. It always teaches me something new about my work and composition. In Deca Dance I took sections from different works. It was like I was telling only either the beginning, middle or ending of many stories but when I organized it the result become as coherent as the original if not more.› Ohad Naharin
