CORNER ETUDES

EMANUEL GAT DANCE (2013)

CORNER ETUDES is an evening of four short pieces by Emanuel Gat and a continuation of the themes and ideas explored in BRILLIANT CORNERS, the company’s production from 2011. All four are a sort of zoom-in into different aspects of choreography making, and as a consequence, a reflection on performance modalities. Étude (study), refers to the musical origins of the term – a composition, usually short and of considerable difficulty, designed to provide practice material for perfecting a particular musical skill. A choreographic take-off on the idea of étude, these four pieces offer a close look into the mechanics and heart of choreography making.

  • Corner Etudes by Emanuel Gat
  • Corner Etudes by Emanuel Gat
  • Corner Etudes by Emanuel Gat
  • Corner Etudes by Emanuel Gat
  • Corner Etudes by Emanuel Gat
  • Corner Etudes by Emanuel Gat
  • Corner Etudes by Emanuel Gat
  • Corner Etudes by Emanuel Gat
  • Corner Etudes by Emanuel Gat
  • Corner Etudes by Emanuel Gat

Photos of CORNER ETUDES by Emanuel Gat

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QUARTET, un duo entre Francois Przybylski et Michael Loehr, est une étude sur le contrepoint qui juxtapose la chorégraphie et le langage. Sa matrice est un poème en quatre partie de T.S. Elliot, Four Quartets. […] Énoncé en direct, la chorégraphie se replie sur le poème pour créer une nouvelle voix, faite de ces superpositions, de ces interactions, qui lient mouvements et récit, et dont l’écriture fuguée est un miracle d’équilibre.

Agnès Izrine
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A TO F

A TO F is the work title of the culminating scene from Brilliant Corners. A chaotic yet precisely choreographed section, built through a mechanism of extreme co-dependence and interrelation between the dancers. A kinetic structure with organic qualities and a seamless stream of un-predictable yet coherent patterns with a built-in dramaturgic urgency. This new étude is following the same process of creation, which in this context allows for a new accuracy and for a sense of language to emerge. an experimentation with the construction laws and how they govern every moving and living system, from choreography to social organization.

Choreography: Emanuel Gat

Performers: Hervé Chaussard, Pansun Kim, Michael Loehr, Philippe Mesia, Genevieve Osborne, Francois Przybylski, Milena Twiehaus

Produced by Emanuel Gat Dance. Co-produced by Festival Montpellier Danse 2013. With the support of deSingel International Art Campus Antwerp and Fondation BNP Paribas.

DUET

Sixty minutes of dance condensed both in time and space, duplicated into two distinct duets collapsing into one another, to create a conversation of visceral dynamic and energy between four dancers. Through the drastic negation of the spatial aspects of the original material, its time-related information and qualities are pushed to the front. an intimate and meticulously articulate conversation between two women and two men

Choreography: Emanuel Gat

Performers: Hervé Chaussard, Philippe Mesia, Genevieve Osborne, Milena Twiehaus

Produced by Emanuel Gat Dance. Co-produced by Festival Montpellier Danse 2013. With the support of deSingel International Art Campus Antwerp and Fondation BNP Paribas.

QUARTET

QUARTET is a study on multilayered counterpoint. Four independent lines, merging movement and speech, are interweaved by the two performers into a rich and playful game of structuring, balancing, chasing, confronting, echoing, mirroring, fleeing, answering and questioning, a constant balancing-act between organizing and improvising.

Choreography: Emanuel Gat

Text: Four Quartets by T.S. Eliot

Music: Léon

Performers: Michael Loehr, Francois Przybylski

Produced by Emanuel Gat Dance. Co-produced by Festival Montpellier Danse 2013. With the support of deSingel International Art Campus Antwerp and Fondation BNP Paribas.

THE SURPRISING COMPLEXITY OF SIMPLE PLEASURES

Organized complexity, visual and musical in this case, and its resonance as pleasurable. The surprising manner in which complex systems and structures, be it physical or mental, concrete or abstract, animate or inanimate, generate a simple sense of rightness.
The aim here is not to delight the eye or ear, but rather to allow the person looking, contemplating the work, to see the meaning of the structure as structure regardless of the content one might impose upon it. A baroque architecture of endless details and references, all merging into a coherent simple one.

Choreography: Emanuel Gat

Performers: Hervé Chaussard, Amala Dianor, Aurore Di Bianco, Pansun Kim, Michael Loehr, Philippe Mesia, Genevieve Osborne, Francois Przybylski, Milena Twiehaus, Sara Wilhelmsson

Produced by Emanuel Gat Dance. Co-produced by Festival Montpellier Danse 2013. With the support of deSingel International Art Campus Antwerp and Fondation BNP Paribas.

Performance History

Montpellier Danse 2013
Opéra Berlioz / Le Corum, Montpellier, France

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times performed in 2013