CORNER ETUDES | EMANUEL GAT DANCE
these four short pieces are all a continuation of 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.
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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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