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Freedom Sonata
© Emanuel Gat Dance

Available from 15 January 2025

2 min

Reflexes & Reflections

To mark 30 years as a professional choreographer, dance artist Emanuel Gat has devised an ode to freedom: in “Freedom Sonata”, together with a group of dancers of diverse heritage and styles, he re-examines the form of the sonata. Gat develops complex scores based on the music of Ludwig van Beethoven and Kanye West, which the dancers make their own live on stage. Here freedom is neither anarchy nor consumerism, instead it comes from playing by rules that have been negotiated collectively. And it must be celebrated; because nothing is easier, Gat reminds us, “than stripping people down from any sort of freedom, liberty or natural right.”

Artistic Team

Emanuel Gat – Choreography, Scenography, Lighting Design

Created with and interpreted by

Tara Dalli, Noé Girard, Nikoline Due Iversen, Pepe Jaimes, Gilad Jerusalmy, Olympia Kotopoulos, Michael Loehr, Emma Mouton, Abel Rojo Pupo, Rindra Rasoaveloson, Sara Wilhelmsson

Guillaume Février – Technical Director
Frédéric Duru – Sound Design
Marie-Pierre Guiol – Company Management
Mélanie Bichot – Production Management

Music

Ludwig van Beethoven – piano sonata #32 Ut minor opus 111, second movement, played by Mitsuko Ushida and recorded in 2006
Kanye WestThe Life Of Pablo (2016)