SACRE
SUB.LAB.PRO (2022)
Choreography & LightsEmanuel Gat
StagingMichael Loehr & Karolina Szymura
MusicIgor Stravinsky
Lighting SupervisionKata Dézsi
PerformersIsaac Butler, Jonas Garrido Verwerft, Hanne Van Driessche / Lina Bouainane, Flóra Virág / Rose Bouvet, Jázmin Wéber / Laura Mello Rella
ProductionSUB.LAB Event Productions. Co-produced & supported by Workshop Foundation, Trafó House of Contemporary Arts, MU Theater, Sín Arts Centre, NKA, IZP Program, EMMI. Special thanks to Anikó Rácz, Ábris Gryllus, Dániel Dömölky, Gergely Ofner, Bence Kovács, Erika Partig-Kis, Balázs Busa
World Premiere26 May 2022 – Trafó House of Contemporary Arts, Budapest, Hungary
Original Production
THE RITE OF SPRING
ProductionEmanuel Gat Dance
Co-ProductionThe Suzanne Dellal Centre Tel Aviv, Festival Uzès Danse, Monaco Dance Forum. With the help of the Dellal foundation, Théâtre de l'Olivier Istres, Ballet Monte-Carlo, Foundation of Philippe de Rothschild
World Premiere17 June 2004 – Festival Uzès Danse, Cour de l'Évêché, Uzès, France
PhotographyGergely Ofner
In Gat's Sacre, five performers—two men and three women—take the stage. This composition creates a surplus of women, a disruption of balance that necessitates action. If a ménage à trois becomes unworkable or uncomfortable, someone must make a sacrifice for the group's harmony.
The music took me, I went with it. I think it takes a lot of courage to choreograph to this music. [...] There is a nice solo at the end of the performance, but it is as if the dancer changes the very end of the story: she makes a final gesture to the audience, as if to say, I will not be a victim.