Freedom Sonata

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.”