Gaga is a movement language and pedagogy developed by Batsheva Dance Company director and teacher Ohad Naharin.
[3] The imagery guides the performers' movement expressivity by focusing attention on specific body regions.
The language is intended to facilitate communication with the dancers and help them care for their bodies while also testing their physical limitations.
Because Gaga depends on the actual setting and people involved, there is no uniform class structure, though specific methodologies are employed.
[8] Naharin states: “We sense the weight of our body parts, yet, our form is not shaped by gravity.” [9] Additionally, float is intended to facilitate a constant awareness and activeness in which dancers are never completely released, even when they are doing nothing, leaving them 'available' for movement.
Gaga often requests demanding actions, such as running and shaking, but the effort of “burning muscles” must be tied to pleasure in order to keep it healthy.
He states: “We might be silly, we can laugh at ourselves.”[9] This kind of instruction aims to encourage exploratory research without limits or tensions.