Ohad Naharin’s revolutionary choreographic method has taken the dance world by storm. He explains the “tool box” of Gaga.

Ohad Naharin is what you might call a reluctant revolutionary. The Israeli choreographer and Artistic Director of Batsheva Dance Company is one of those rare artists who without seeking it has affected a globally-reaching influence on contemporary choreography. Far from setting out to conquer the dance world with his seductive work, Naharin has quietly, unselfconsciously forged a completely new way of thinking about movement and the body, and it’s a train of thought that has won legions of devotees all over the world.

A former student of dance icon Martha Graham, trained at New York’s most famous arts institution, Julliard, as well as the American Ballet School, Naharin’s pedigree is distinctly classical. However unlike most dancers, honing their skills from infancy, Naharin only began his formal training at the age of 22.

Ohad Naharin

Perhaps because of this late blooming, acquiring his technical foundation not with the implicit discipline of a child but with the fully-fledged, questioning intellect of an adult, Naharin has since given rise to...