© Julieta Cervantes
Première mondiale : 5-6 juillet 2014
American Dance Festival, Durham, NC
Choréographie, lumières et bande-son : Emanuel Gat
Assistante chorégraphe : Michael Löhr
Musique :
Ludwig van Beethoven, piano sonata no, 32 op. 111.
Piano par Mitsuko Uchida.
Bande-son créée en collaboration avec Frédéric Duru.
Through continuous shifts and tampering with both visual and aural perceptions, the work explores and questions group behaviors and the navigation of individuals within them. Although an assemblage of complex structures, Ida ? is nonetheless a work revolving around the evidence and immediacy of human presence.
American Dance Festival
Gat, Cedar Lake Ballet combine talents
Cedar Lake artistic director Alexandra Damiani confirmed, "Gat’s process [...] is about relationships, connections. He gives a lot of freedom but at the same time he guides. He has a really strong idea of where he wants to go… [but] Emanuel is very open to the beauty and magic of the moment". The choreographer also encouraged dancers to be authentically present in the work. "They were being present in a much deeper way than they have ever experienced," Damiani said. "I’m still fascinated by his process and by his work."
Susan Broili, The Herald-Sun