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Emanuel Gat Dance, Sadler's Wells/ Henri Oguike Dance, Touring | reviews, news & interviews

Emanuel Gat Dance, Sadler's Wells/ Henri Oguike Dance, Touring

Emanuel Gat Dance, Sadler's Wells/ Henri Oguike Dance, Touring

Do modern choreographers actively want to entertain us?

Emanuel Gat's 'Winter Variations': 'The movement is the problem'Photo Sara Davis

How do young modern choreographers engage with their audience? With references from the street - motion that the audience knows and recognises? With musical expressiveness? With the development of a technical style that has a language of its own? How about with an instinct, a yearning to entertain? Surely not!

How do young modern choreographers engage with their audience? With references from the street - motion that the audience knows and recognises? With musical expressiveness? With the development of a technical style that has a language of its own? How about with an instinct, a yearning to entertain? Surely not!

The two men pattered around an empty black stage in sickly white light for 60 minutes'

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for entertainment purpose we have something called `entertainment` GAT creates something we call àrt`. good art. this two forms of expression often share the same stage but are not to be mistaken

The two are possible simultaneously, surely? Great art should sometimes, at least, endeavour to entertain, no?

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