Emanuel Gat Dance — New Project 2026

Emanuel Gat is looking for freelance dancers interested in collaborating on the creation of a new piece, Five Days In The Sun, which will have its world premiere in June 2026. The rehearsal period will take place between April and the end of June (6–7 weeks overall; exact dates and first touring engagements will be shared at a later time). Dancers need to be available for touring during the 26/27/28 seasons, and must be able to prioritize the project’s schedule over their other freelance engagements.

IMPORTANT:

• Dancers need to be based in Marseille or its close surroundings starting from March 2026

• Dancers must be able to prove their legal status (European passport, residence permit, residence card, etc.).

Application and selection process
— Please send any material you feel supports your application before October 20th to egdproject2026@gmail.com. A first selection will be made based on the material sent.
— A second phase will consist of a personal conversation with Emanuel (in person or online).
— Following these conversations, a group of selected dancers will be invited in December 2025 for a 3-day workshop in Marseille*, after which the final group will be formed.

*If the dancer invited to the workshop is not already based in Marseille, all related expenses (travel, accommodation, etc.) will be at the expense of the dancer.

Information relating to salary and all other contractual conditions will be shared with the dancers invited to the final phase of the selection process (Marseille workshop) once the second phase is completed, so they can confirm their interest in joining the workshop.

Upcoming Tour Dates

FREEDOM SONATA (85’)

World Premiere Festival de Marseille, 20th and 21st of June 2024

“Everything that is, is of everything else that is,
nothing is of itself alone.”

2024 will mark 30 years of me having the privilege and joy of practicing the art of choreography. 

I’ve created my first solo, ‘Four Dances’, in 1994 to music by Bach, and 30 years and more than 50 works later, I always have the feeling I’m just starting. 

If I need to define what I’ve been working on in the course of these 30 years, it would be the refinement of a human system - as in, the ways in which individuals come together, access their highest potential, cohabit and collaborate.

LOVETRAIN2020 (70’)

Premiered on October 3rd, 2020 at Montpellier Danse 40 bis, Opéra Comédie, Montpellier (FR)

“LOVETRAIN2020 is marvelous, a rambunctious yet rigorously staged piece for 14 dancers, set to tracks by the British pop group Tears for Fears (big in the ’80s), outlandishly costumed by Thomas Bradley: ruffles, peculiar shapes, huge skirts, missing parts of clothes, plaid mixed with satin.

Mr. Gat melds gestural detail with larger-scale movement, sometimes working against the music’s rhythms, sometimes with them, frequently in silence. This eccentric physical dialogue with the music — mostly in a minor key and vaguely gloomy in content yet somehow gloriously singalong — is exhilarating.

LOVETRAIN2020 is everything the small-scale, often somber work made for video during the past months is not. It’s loud, joyous, physical, close. (…) A celebration of the body, of performance, of life.”

Roslyn Sulcas, The New York Times

INTERVIEWS WITH EMANUEL GAT