Emanuel Gat
Emanuel Gat
Artistic Director and Choreographer.
Born in Israel 1969.
His first encounter with dance was at the age of 23 during a workshop 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. Shortly after 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 dancer and choreographer. 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 performances. In 2006 Gat was named a chosen artist of the Israel Cultural Excellence Foundation IcExcellence, one of Israel's highest honors for artists.
In 2004 Emanuel founded his independent company "Emanuel Gat Dance". 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 300 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.
In September 2007, Emanuel moved to France and based his company at the town of Istres where it is hosted since by Ouest Provence.
"Silent Ballet", a piece for 8 dancers with no music, was premiered on July 2008 at Montpellier Danse Festival. Co-produced by the Lincoln Center Festival New York, Romaeuropa Festival, the Sadler's Wells Theater in London and the Montpellier Dance Festival. Later that year, Emanuel and Roy Assaf went back to their long time collaboration creating "Winter Variations", a 50 minutes duet premiered at the American Dance Festival on June 2009 and presented later at Montpellier Danse and The Lincoln Center Festival. In 2011, Emanuel creates "Brilliant Corners" a piece for 10 dancers, for which he also composes the soundtrack.
Emanuel is regularly invited to set his work and create new choreographies for dance compnies arround the world including: The Paris Opera Ballet, Sydney Dance Company, Le Ballet du Rhin, Tanztheater Bremen, Le Ballet du Grand Théâtre de Genève, Ballet de Marseille, Noord Nederlandse Dans, Polish National Ballet among others.
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Press Quotes
- “Emanuel Gat ne fait rien comme tout le monde "
Rosita Boisseau / Panorama de la danse contemporaine. Textuel, 2006 read more
- Un grand chorégraphe en Provence / Les accords de Gat
"... Car l'atout d'Emanuel Gat, outre son énergie, c'est bien évidemment son talent : l'extraordinaire vélocité de sa danse; les défis permanents qu'il se lance et relève avec une élégance souveraine. Quand tant d'autres se gargarisent de concepts avant de savoir mettre un pied devant l'autre, la rigueur de son écriture, belle, envoûtante et réfléchie, fait de lui une rareté : un authentique et brillant chorégraphe, doublé d'un magnifique danseur" Raphaël de Gubernatis / Le Nouvel Observateur read more
- "...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.
- Here is a choreography who knows how to bend tradition with craft." / Ballet Magazine by Rachel Straus
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list of recent works:
2011
'Brilliant Corners' / Emanuel Gat Dance
'Preludes & Fugues' / Ballet du Grand Theatre de Geneve
2010
'In Translation' / Candoco dance company
'Satisfying Musical Moments' / Sydney Dance Company
'Observation Action' / Ballet du Rhin
'The Revised and Updated Bremen Structures' / Tanztheater Bremen
2009
'Winter variations' / Emanuel Gat Dance
'Hark!' / Ballet de l'Opera National de Paris
2008
'Silent Ballet' / Emanuel Gat Dance
'Windungen' / Suresnes Cite Danses
2007
'Through the center' / Emanuel Gat Dance
'My Favorite Things' / Emanuel Gat Dance
'Trotz dem alten Drachen' / Tanztheater Bremen
2006
K626 / Emanuel Gat Dance
2004
'Winter Voyage' / Emanuel Gat Dance
'The Rite Of Spring' / Emanuel Gat Dance