Emanuel Gat, one of the most original voices in international contemporary choreography, opens Dedica, Orbita’s dance season 2027, with Bach to Sacre, a triple bill spanning over twenty years of artistic research and to explore the relationship between body, music and silence. The programme also marks the return to the Teatro Palladium of Sacre, the acclaimed reinterpretation of Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring, presented on this very stage in 2007. Three works, three different stage configurations, a single inquiry into the mechanisms of choreographic composition, in which gesture becomes note, movement becomes score, and silence reveals itself as a space that generates infinite possibilities.
From the musical architecture of Bach to silence, and on to the primal force of Stravinsky, Bach to Sacre composes a journey in which the body becomes an instrument and choreography an invisible score, capable of continually reinventing the relationships between sound, space and movement.
The evening opens with Bach (2026), a new duet set to the music of Johann Sebastian Bach, a composer who has accompanied Gat’s research since his earliest days. Asked where he learned to choreograph, Gat has always answered: “By listening to Bach’s music.” Set to the famous Chaconne from the Partita No. 2 and the Adagio from the Sonata No. 3 for solo violin, in the performance by Itzhak Perlman, two bodies confront the complexity of musical writing, in a dialogue that is at once a new challenge and a return to his roots.
In Silent Ballet (2008), revived in 2026, the music disappears, yet the rhythm remains. Seven dancers inhabit a bare space in which silence and the sounds produced by the bodies become musical material. The dance is built before the spectator’s eyes like an organism in constant transformation, revealing its own compositional mechanisms and making emptiness not an absence, but the very condition from which movement takes shape.
The programme closes with Sacre (2004), the acclaimed interpretation of Igor Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring, which was awarded a Bessie Award in New York in 2006. Through the deconstruction of Cuban salsa, three women and two men weave a complex web of relationships and tensions, transforming the ritual of sacrifice into a multiplicity of possibilities for action.
Duration approx. 90 minutes, including intermission.