2500 Ft / Student: 1900 Ft (Trafó Season Ticket is valid)
The Rite of Spring
„...If you want to see the future of dance, take a long look at Emanuel Gat... Emanuel Gat was one of the sensations of the Jacob’s Pillow festival this summer, isn’t afraid to mix Schubert and Freud, Stravinsky and salsa.” (Kansas City Star)
Winter Voyage
“...incredible originality, clear articulation, robust physicality, and sophisticated intelligence.” (Seth Rogovoy, Berkshire Living magazine, The Rite of Spring)
„...a deep internal musicality that has little to do with the score and everything to do with breath and balance... Extraordinary movers... The two seem to be on parallel journeys of some sort, and though the destination is unclear, what a bizarre, starkly beautiful trip it is.” (Bostone Globe, Winter Voyage)
Emanuel Gat (Israel, 1969)
After his military service, Emanuel Gat studied music at the Tel Aviv Academy. His first encounter with dance was at a workshop for amateurs led by Israeli choreographer Nir Ben Gal. Six months later, at age 23, Gat joined the Liat Dror Nir Ben Gal Company with whom he toured in Israel and around the world. After two years with the company, Gat began working as an independent choreographer, creating his first solo piece “Four Dances” in 1994 to music by Bach.
Over the next 10 years Gat created a number of independent projects as choreographer and lead dancer. Among those projects were “Al-Kuds” (96-98) in collaboration with musician/text writer Mariano Weinstein, “Kasha” (99) a duet in which Emanuel created the music as well, “Good Year” (2000) a piece for 9 dancers commissioned by the Kibbutz Dance Company with soundtrack by Gat, “A Local recital” (2001) an evening long solo performance created in collaboration with 5 leading Israeli Choreographers, “Two Stupid Dogs” (2002) a work for five dancers in collaboration with the Arab rap group MWR – a commission by the Israel/Jerusalem Festival.
His work has been presented in Israel as well as internationally at dance festivals around the world. Gat received a scholarship from the Ballet Master Albert Gaubiers Fund in 1995 and the Rosenblum Award for Performing Arts in 2003 As well as the Landau award (2004). In January 2004 Gat established his company - Emanuel Gat Dance, which received Israel’s Minister of Culture Award in 2005 for outstanding dance performance. In 2006 Gat was named a chosen artist of the Israel Cultural Excellence Foundation IcExcellence, one of Israel's highest honors for artists.
The company has since created six pieces that have toured around the world. The premier of “Winter Voyage” and “The Rite of Spring” took place at Uzes festival in June 2004. These two works were performed since to great acclaim more than 150 times worldwide. In 2006 Emanuel Gat received the Bessie award for the presentation of this program at the Lincoln Center Festival in New York.
In 2006 Emanuel created “K626” a work for 8 dancers based on Mozart’s Requiem, which was premiered at the Festival de Marseilles. The following year, the company premiered “3for2007” (a three piece program including “My Favorite things” a solo danced by Emanuel to music by John Coltrane, “Petit torn de dança” a duet to medieval French songs and “through the center...” a piece for 8 dancers to electronic music by Squarepusher.
The last program of the company: "Silent Ballet / Sixty Four" was performed in July 2008 Montpellier Dance Festival.
Co-produced by among others the Lincoln Center in New York, Romaeuropa Festival, the Sadler's Wells Theater in London and the Montpellier Dance Festival, this piece is the first to be created on French territory.
Emanuel Gat was invited to create a new work for the Paris Opera Ballet, which will be premiered in April 09.
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau - "Gute Nacht" - Die Winterreise
Winterreise (15’)
Choreography, light and costumes: Emanuel Gat
Music: Franz Schubert
Singer: Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
Dancers:
Roy Assaf és Emanuel Gat
Le Sacre du Printemps (35’)
Choreography, light and costumes: Emanuel Gat
Music: Igor Stravinsky
Dancers:
Mia Alon, Noa Gimelshtein, Alexis Jestin, Maeva Berthelot, David Gernez
Co-production:
Suzanne Dellal Centre (Izrael), Festival Uzès Danse (Franciaország), Monaco Dance Forum (Monaco)
With the support of:
The Dellal Foundation, The Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Israel National Lottery-Council of arts, Théâtre de l’Olivier à Istres (Franciaország), Ballet de Monte-Carlo (Monaco), The Yehoshua – Rabinovitch Foundation
