Time out was a carnivaleque interlude of dancers masking up and playacting with each other before they became restless again returning to creating vibrant elemental dance. Gat’s imagined designer sun eventually grew red in the sky as night approached and his dancers bodies created final great swathes and splashes of athletic colourful moves. Uplifting and finely tuned in every sense.
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No More Workhorse - Sunny, Abbey Theatre, Dublin Dance Festival
"A triumph of organised spontaneity. […] one of them wears a smoking jacket but without any trousers. They make an elegant and sophisticated looking gathering… a group of people worth belonging to. […] The combination of the variety of the dance sequences, the dancers’ ability to interpret the “spontaneous” sound and the sheer physicality of the movements of the dancers kept the audience riveted. Messrs Gat and Leon and the dancers, as if they were one entity, brought the audience to a place not previously known."
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Dublin Dance Festival - Guest review 2: Dick Walsh on ‘Sunny’
I can’t pretend to explain this piece. What they were doing was simple but there was a lot mined from it. As Emanuel said himself in the post show discussion. “Choreography is about movement, time and space, but the answers to these three things are endless."
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DRAFF Reviews: SUNNY by Emanuel Gat at Dublin Dance Festival
Ultimately, Sunny is about the joyful engagement of bodies, the heavenly and the human, and on that level it is a strong creative achievement. And the audience did go absolutely mad for it, so I'm admittedly in a very small minority here. But that's my two cents. I am feeling a lot better about Sunny now I've spent the evening thinking about it. And I would definitely see it again, they do move VERY beautifully...
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