Emanuel Gat

WINTER VOYAGE / THE RITE OF SPRING

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17 NOV 8.30 pm / 18 NOV 5.00 pm

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Emanuel Gat’s debut at Romaeuropa Festival brings to the capital what critics acknowledge as being more than just a promise in the international contemporary dance scene: ten years ago the Israeli choreographer was about to give up dance for a job as a bartender, today he is one of the most contended artist in European and American shows.
When Gat is involved, it is perfectly legitimate to talk about pure dance, about the elation of movement, about the discovery and conquest of the space where a minimalist setting takes up the appearance of lights and discreet geometrical signs.
The first choreography is “Winter Voyage“, which is based on three of the twenty-four lieders of Franz Schubert’s “Winterreise” cycle.
It is a duo where the dancers are often asynchronous or in appear in short canons, following a movement that is intimate, flexuous and hypnotic. There are long silences between pieces: the dance is continuous and the music comes back to make itself heard as if it were a voice that lived inside the dance and the dancers.
It is just this relationship with music – with classical music and the binding connection with its underlying syntax – that qualifies, in an unmistakable way, Gat’s work, as clearly emerging in “The Rite of Spring” (National Premiere), transformed by him in a dizzying mix of sophisticated primitivism and exciting salsa steps: a regeneration of dance though a neoclassic and post-modern re-visitation of the score that would not have displeased its author, Igor Stravinsky.

Dancer, choreographer and teacher, Emanuel Gat was born in 1969 in Israel. The Emanuel Gat Dance Company was founded in the Suzanne Dellal Center of Tel-Aviv, in January 2004.

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