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SAT 17 & SUN 18 OCTOBER ARTS CENTRE MELBOURNE STATE THEATRE LAST WORK BATSHEVA DANCE COMPANY Choreographer and Artistic Director OHAD NAHARIN Fresh from its world premiere in Tel Aviv, Ohad Naharin’s latest creation Last Work brings Australia’s Batsheva fans up to date with the celebrated company’s most recent exploration of motion and emotion. In Last Work, Naharin and the Batsheva dancers explore the body’s motion as the most humane, stirring expression of performing arts, and synthesize the infinite spectrum of emotions and sentiment into performance. Lighting Design AVI YONA BUENO (BAMBI) Soundtrack Design and Edit MAXIM WARRATT Original Music GRISCHA LICHTENBERGER Stage Design ZOHAR SHOEF Costume Design ERI NAKAMURA Additional Music Assistants to Ohad Naharin and Maxim Warratt ARIEL COHEN GUY SHOMRONI Production HILA RAZON Running Trainer MARK OR Few Mysteries Solved in a Year of Contact—Sagat, Club Life—Hysterics, Crusty Juice—MPIA3, Volume VIP—Monkey, Tantrum—Luminox Produced by Batsheva Dance Company Co-produced by Festival Montpellier Danse & Hellerau— European Center for the Arts, Dresden. Supported by Batsheva New Works Fund and Dalia and Eli Hurvitz Foundation, with special funding provided by the American Friends of Batsheva. Running shoes provided courtesy of New Balance. “The piece is breathtaking for the extraordinary dancing by the Batsheva dancers, and the way Mr. Naharin can evoke states of pleasure, pain, madness and a kind of animality—a sheer state of being in the body through his movement. NEW YORK TIMES Performed by BATSHEVA DANCE COMPANY DANCERS SEASON 2015/16 ”