Choreography and lights: Emanuel Gat
Costume design: Kristina Čyžiūtė Svirskienė
Music: J.S. Bach - English Suites. Piano, Glen Gould and Emanuel Gat
Rehearsal director: Robert Przybyl
Dancers: Ester Bega, Heung Won Lee, Julija Strupaitė, Marine Fernandez, Pepe Jaimes, Susanna Maggio, Diego Alcalá, Jed Nagales, Dalila Tiraboschi, Nanaho Kugawa, Carolina Merlo
Duration: 60 min. | N-10
The Loop is the result of a collaboration between Emanuel Gat and the company dancers. The dancers fill the stage in a frantic succession of choreographic fragments evolving through various constellations, formats, musical environments and choreographic procedures. The Loop is in many ways a reaction to the changing times and to the constant evolution of how dance, and art in general, is being created and produced. It is an attempt to question old boundaries and hierarchies, to foster a new redistribution of artistic responsibilities and resources.
A stream of choreographic consciousness, The Loop navigates freely between questions of scale, decision making, collaborative strategies, notions of efficiency and clarity, real time choreography, theatrical approaches and musical interpretations, in order to reveal the inner logics and mechanics of human behavior.
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Emanuel Gat was born in Israel and initially danced with the Liat Dror Nir Ben Gal company, before establishing himself as an independent choreographer in 1994. His company Emanuel Gat Dance is based in Marseille, France. Due to his unique and personal approach to choreography and dance composition, Emanuel Gat is considered to be one of the leading and most prolific choreographers working in Europe today. Over the past 25 years, Gat's works have been presented at many of the world's most important dance scenes and festivals.
Aura Dance Theatre is the first contemporary dance theatre in Lithuania, dating back to the modern dance studio founded by Birutė Letukaitė in 1980, which grew into the Kaunas Dance Theatre in 1995. In 2011, it became an international dance company, presenting performances on every continent and winning numerous awards.
In 1989, the theatre welcomed the first international modern dance festival in Lithuania held in Kaunas.