Salzburg Easter Festival 2023: World Premiere »Träume« [»Dreams«]
For the first-ever time, dance will feature at the Easter Festival - in the archaic setting of the Felsenreitschule. The French/Israeli choreographer Emanuel Gat will present a work for 14 dancers that is inspired by Richard Wagner’s Wesendonck Lieder. Gat will combine the five famous poems with excerpts from Wagner’s essay »Art and Revolution« [»Die Kunst und die Revolution«]. » ›Träume‹ is a choreographic work that engages with different facets of Wagner’s oeuvre. In the first act, excerpts from his revolutionary essay will be juxtaposed with the po- ems by Mathilde Wesendonck in order to create a kind of textual score in a dialogue between the sexes; it is fol- lowed by a second act that unfolds to the music of the five songs«, says Emanuel Gat. This world premiere will be danced by members of the Emanuel Gat Dance Company.
Video-Teaser by Julia Gat