Emanuel Gat

As internationally renowned choreographer, Emanuel Gat creates each of his works in close collaboration with the dancers of his company and deploys an intimate dialogue between choreography and music. Since the creation of his first solo in 1994, ‘Four Dances’, to the music by Johann Sebastian Bach, he has collaborated with many institutions around the world and worked with prestigious international companies.
He founded his company Emanuel Gat Dance in 2004 and created pieces that enjoyed international success, among which ‘Winter Voyage’ and ‘The Rite of Spring’, that received a Bessy Award in 2006. After settling in France in 2007, he was named Associated Artist to the Montpellier Danse Festival in 2013 and 2016–18, where he created, among others, ‘The Goldlandbergs’ and ‘SUNNY’. He was also Associated Artist to Chaillot in Paris for the seasons 2018–21. In 2018, Gat collaborated with the prestigious Ensemble Modern Frankfurt to create ‘Story Water’ at the Cour d’Honneur of Festival d’Avignon. In the midst of the 2020 pandemic, Gat created ‘LOVETRAIN2020’, which received the prize of Best Dance Performance of the Year in France. 

Gat is regularly invited by companies and dance institutions for which he creates or transmits pieces, such as Sydney Dance Company, Ballet du Grand Théâtre de Genève, Los Angeles Dance Project, Royal Swedish Ballet, Cedar Lake (NY), Vancouver Ballet British Columbia, Scottish Dance Theater, Staatsballett Berlin, Paris Opera Ballet, Ballet du Rhin, Ballet National de Marseille, Ballet de Lorraine and Ballet de l’Opéra de Lyon. During his entire career, he has developed a rich methodological set of tools and an original pedagogical approach to dance making. He is regularly invited to teach and collaborate with the world's leading dance schools and institutions. In parallel, he offers regular options for young dancers to immerse themselves in his practice through internships, workshops and master classes at Emanuel Gat Dance.