This one is for the dance nerds: On the occasion of our upcoming shows at Teatro San Ferdinando in Naples I wanna share two videos of Emanuel Gat’s MILENA & MICHAEL with you. One is a full documentation of the 17 minute duet we created during our residency at Maison de la Danse de Lyon, the...Continue Reading

ATTEMPTS WITHOUT WORTH V.1 Everyone here remembers my horse. Is facing the right horse even wrong? Can’t the eel walk 5 Steps? With snaps and stabs it flew. The guy gradually climbs the horse and sees his purse rise off his seat. He’s so up himself, his reflection vomits confidence. You cross and he forgets...Continue Reading

STORY WATER, a collaboration between Emanuel Gat Dance and Frankfurt’s renown Ensemble Modern, has just been shortlisted for the Fedora Van Cleef & Arpels Prize for Ballet 2018. Obviously this is very exciting news and I’d be thrilled if you help to support our production with your vote on fedora-platform.com! Fedora is a platform that...Continue Reading

Thank you for a totally awesome, exciting, inspiring, sweaty, sexy, adventurous, challenging, insane, fun, groovy, yummy, bold, wonderful 2017! I was absolutely lucky to perform and create with such a bunch of inspiring artists, and teach my classes and workshops for so many talented young dancers. I performed 36 shows in 7 countries, spent 9...Continue Reading

The end of the year is fast approaching and holiday season is almost here, but it’s never too late to share some good news: I am beyond excited to announce that SOMETHING MACHINE‘s project THE 2ND EXCESSIVE RUDENESS was chosen for STRUT Dance’s precious SEED residency program. STRUT is the National Choreographic Center of Western Australia. A...Continue Reading

Emanuel Gat’s latest creation TENWORKS (for Jean-Paul) premiered during the prestigious festival Montpellier Danse in June 2017. A revised and shortened version of this show will start touring from spring 2018 under the name WORKS. If you couldn’t make it to our premiere and you can’t take waiting until next year, have a look at the...Continue Reading

On the occasion of our latest performance of the Emanuel Gat / Awir Leon collaboration piece SUNNY at Opéra de Rouen – Théâtre des Arts, Vinciane Laumonier talked with Emanuel about the creation process behind the show and his general views on choreography, music and lighting. The interview was held and published in French, please read below....Continue Reading

SUNNY by Emanuel Gat & Awir Leon is back! After a half-year break the piece is finally touring again with Thomas Bradley, Pétér Juhász and Emma Mouton joining the cast. Until the end of the year we will still perform in Rouen and Mulhouse (FR). The next year will bring us to several cities in...Continue Reading

Here is a brand new teaser for WORKS (originally TENWORKS, a collaboration between Emanuel Gat Dance and Ballet de l’Opera de Lyon), filmed and edited by Julia Gat! The new version of this production will start touring in Spring 2018 with a first show at Théâtre de l’Olivier in Istres, France. Have a look:Continue Reading

While preparing for SOMETHING MACHINE’s residency at Seoul Dance Center and researching on the themes of observation and surveillance, i came across the exhibition Watched! Surveillance, Art and Photography, a collaboration between the Hasselblad Foundation, Valand Academy, Kunsthal Aarhus, Galleri Image, ARoS and C/O Berlin. Watched! is part of a research initiated by Louise Wolthers,...Continue Reading