FREEDOM SONATA (85’)
World Premiere Festival de Marseille, 20th and 21st of June 2024
“Everything that is, is of everything else that is,
nothing is of itself alone.”
2024 will mark 30 years of me having the privilege and joy of practicing the art of choreography.
I’ve created my first solo, ‘Four Dances’, in 1994 to music by Bach, and 30 years and more than 50 works later, I always have the feeling I’m just starting.
If I need to define what I’ve been working on in the course of these 30 years, it would be the refinement of a human system - as in, the ways in which individuals come together, access their highest potential, cohabit and collaborate.
LOVETRAIN2020 (70’)
Premiered on October 3rd, 2020 at Montpellier Danse 40 bis, Opéra Comédie, Montpellier (FR)
“LOVETRAIN2020 is marvelous, a rambunctious yet rigorously staged piece for 14 dancers, set to tracks by the British pop group Tears for Fears (big in the ’80s), outlandishly costumed by Thomas Bradley: ruffles, peculiar shapes, huge skirts, missing parts of clothes, plaid mixed with satin.
Mr. Gat melds gestural detail with larger-scale movement, sometimes working against the music’s rhythms, sometimes with them, frequently in silence. This eccentric physical dialogue with the music — mostly in a minor key and vaguely gloomy in content yet somehow gloriously singalong — is exhilarating.
LOVETRAIN2020 is everything the small-scale, often somber work made for video during the past months is not. It’s loud, joyous, physical, close. (…) A celebration of the body, of performance, of life.”
Roslyn Sulcas, The New York Times
INTERVIEWS WITH EMANUEL GAT
PODIUM DANS