FIVE DAYS IN THE SUN Emanuel Gat Dance
Freesheet
At first there is only a golden haze. Out of it, figures emerge one by one, draped in long silks that drift like breath and soon turn to light. A single gesture passes from body to body, and a community takes shape.
To mark thirty years of creation, Emanuel Gat brings together twelve young dancers, an entirely new company, to journey through Mahler‘s Fifth Symphony, a score born between a brush with death and the dawn of love. Rather than illustrating the music, Gat lets the dance spring from its inner logic: stormy, radiant, whirling, as changeable as nature itself. Bodies surge and graze, form and dissolve, each dancer keeping a singular voice within an almost tangible collective listening. Gat’s own lighting composes a second music in counterpoint to the orchestra.
At the height of the Scherzo, the orchestra falls silent, leaving only children’s voices and the calling of gulls. Then the Adagietto closes the journey with a stillness that seeks no resolution.
Five tableaux move from haze toward clarity: a hymn to youth and to living together, perhaps a foreshadowing of a world at peace.
About Emanuel Gat Dance
For the past 35 years, the company Emanuel Gat Dance has been studying the choreographic thing as a vehicle for a better understanding of the human condition, the nature of human action and the forces that shape it.
Through a myriad of processes and a singular approach, the company’s work is a continuous attempt to engineer a human system, informed by an ethical and moral world view, in the service of everyone involved. With over a hundred piece created for both his own company as well as commissioned works for numerous leading dance companies world wide, Emanuel Gat’s body of work evolves in the intersection of art, social studies and philosophy, forming a wide ranging body of work which harnesses the revelatory powers of the choreographic process and its undeniable relevance as a distinct artistic form of understanding.
Artistic Team & Credits
FIVE DAYS IN THE SUN
World premiere June 21st Festival Montpellier Danse (FR)
Choreography, Scenography and Lights Emanuel Gat
Music Gustav Mahler, Symphony n° 5 in C sharp minor (movements 1-4), Wiener Philharmoniker, Leonard Bernstein (1987)
Additional Sound Creation Emanuel Gat
Costumes VICHER
With Emma Bogerd, Théo Brassart, Geremia Cappagli, Léa Delaporte, Zohar Kotz, Itai Meir, Giulia Quacqueri, Johanne Skogstad, Katherina Solvang, Noah Oost, Anaïs Van Caekenberghe, Winter Wieringa
Technical Director Guillaume Fevrier
Sound Designer Frédéric Duru
Production Emanuel Gat Dance
Company Management Marie-Pierre Guiol
Production Coordinator Mélanie Bichot
Coproduction Montpellier Danse, Biennale Danza di Venezia, American Dance Festival, Festival de danse de Cannes, Pôle arts de la scène – La Friche Belle de mai, Theater Freiburg.
Residencies KLAP Maison pour la Danse, SCENE44 . n + n Corsino, Ecole nationale de danse de Marseille
Touring in Asia, North/South America Thierry Bévière – DLB Spectacles – thierry@dlbdance.com
Touring Italy Valentina Marini – valentina.marini.rm@gmail.com
Emanuel Gat Dance benefits from the support of Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication – DRAC Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur, of the Région Sud – Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur and of the Conseil Départemental des Bouches du Rhône.
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