STORY WATER

EMANUEL GAT DANCE & ENSEMBLE MODERN (2018)

STORY WATER is an intermediary. It is warm water, it is bread. It is a garden. It is the story of dancing bodies, of music being played, of colour and line, and of the light that hides and shows it all. It is an intermediary put to work in the service of communities, through reflecting the issues and concerns of the places where they land. It stands witness to meaning beyond the known, and is therefore a transcendent commerce, a currency, an economy of experiences. It is a place of fluid metaphors waiting for new contexts to emerge, so as to reveal new meanings. STORY WATER is a long deep look into the space in which music and choreography meet, serving as intermediaries and creating a space for people to step into, a freshly watered garden.

Photos of STORY WATER by Julia Gat

Emanuel Gat livre une chorégraphie énergique et vibrante. Il est là où on l’attendait peut-être pas, engagé politiquement. Il y a très longtemps qu’un spectacle de danse n’avait été autant envoûtant dans la Cour d’honneur du Palais des Papes.

Stéphane Capron
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Credits

Choreography, stage and lights: Emanuel Gat

Music: Pierre Boulez, Rebecca Saunders, Emanuel Gat

Conductor: Franck Ollu

Costume Design: Thomas Bradley

Light direction: Guillaume Février

Sound direction: Norbert Ommer

Live electronics: Felix Dreher

Performers: Thomas Bradley, Robert Bridger, Péter Juhász, Zoé Lecorgne, Michael Loehr, Emma Mouton, Eddie Oroyan, Karolina Szymura, Milena Twiehaus, Sara Wilhelmsson, TingAn Ying

Musicians: Saar Berger, Jaan Bossier, Paul Cannon, Eva Debonne, David Haller, Christian Hommel, Stefan Hussong, Megumi Kasakawa , Michael M. Kasper, Giorgos Panagiotidis, Rainer Römer, Johannes Schwarz, Ueli Wiget

Production cast:
Project Manager Ensemble Modern: Edda von Gerlach, Kerstin Adineh
Stage Manager Ensemble Modern: Michael Schmidt : Ernst Neisel
Sound technician Ensemble Modern: Volker Bernhart
Press and public relations Ensemble Modern: Marie-Luise Nimsgern
Global management Ensemble Modern: Christian Fausch
Production Emanuel Gat Dance: Noémie Torz
Press and photography manager Emanuel Gat Dance: Julia Gat
Project advisor Emanuel Gat Dance and French Touring: Mélanie Roger
Company management Emanuel Gat Dance and project developer: Florence Chaudière
Technical Direction: Guillaume Février
Documentation FolkDance: Joseph Planells

A production by Emanuel Gat Dance, Ensemble Modern and Frankfurt LAB e.V. Funded by Kulturfonds Frankfurt RheinMain, the City of Frankfurt and Ensemble Modern Board of Patrons e.V., with the help of Transfabrik Fund – Franco-German Fund for Performing Arts.

Emanuel Gat Dance is coproduced by Chaillot – Théâtre National pour la Danse, Festival d’Avignon, deSingel international arts campus, Pôle Arts de la Scène – Friche la Belle de Mai. Funded by BNP Paribas Foundation. Residency at the FabricA of the Festival d’Avignon. Partnership: Kryolan – Professional Make-Up. Ensemble Modern is coproduced by Beethovenfest Bonn, Künstlerhaus Mousonturm.

The company Emanuel Gat Dance is supported by the city of Istres, the Ministry of Culture – DRAC Provence Alpes Côte d’Azur, the Sud Provence Alpes Côte d’Azur Region and Conseil Départemental des Bouches du Rhône. It is also supported by the BNP Paribas Foundation for the development of its projects. Emanuel Gat is associated artist at Chaillot – Théâtre National de la Danse and the Scène Nationale d’Albi.

Ensemble Modern is funded by the German Federal Cultural Foundation, the City of Frankfurt, the German Ensemble Academy, the Hessen State Ministry for Higher Education, Research and the Arts, and the GVL. The Ensemble Modern musicians thank the Aventis Foundation for financing a chair in their ensemble. hr2-kultur is Ensemble Modern’s cultural affairs partner.

Performance History

Festival d’Avignon 2018
Cour d’honneur du Palais des Papes, Avignon, France

Beethovenfest 2018
Oper Bonn, Bonn, Germany

Tanzfestival Rhein-Main 2018
Frankfurt LAB, Frankfurt, Germany

deSingel, Antwerp, Belgium

Théâtre National de Chaillot, Paris, France

Tanzhaus NRW, Düsseldorf, Germany

times performed since 2018

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