Teatro Zandonai
BACH to SACRE: Bach + Silent Ballet + Sacre
World premiere | Co-produced by Oriente Occidente
Three works intertwined by a shared poetics. BACH, Silent Ballet, and Sacre: gestures are notes, movement is music. Silence is not subtraction, but a space in which music can emerge; emptiness is not a pause, but the condition that allows dance to exist. Between two or more performers on stage, gesture traverses time, chooses, and listens. Present bodies inhabit an absence that becomes generative.
[...] Salsa on top of a volcano. This wonderful and amazing mix is performed with elegancy and lust.
20' intermission between Silent Ballet and Sacre.
Creation 2026
Choreography and lights Emanuel Gat
Performers Emma Bogerd, Noah Oost
Music J.S.Bach - Chaccone, Partita #2 in D minor BWV 1004, Adagio, Sonata #3 in C BWV 1005, violin Itzhak Perlman (1986)
Costumes Thomas Bradley
Technical director Guillaume Février
Sound designer Frédéric Duru
Production Emanuel Gat Dance
Co-production Oriente Occidente
Duration 21’
Creation 2008
Recreation 2026
Choreography, lights and costumes Emanuel Gat
Performers Théo Brassart, Emma Bogerd, Anais Caekenberghe, Geremia Cappagli, Léa Delaporte, Noah Oost, Giulia Quacqueri
Production Emanuel Gat Dance
Original co-production Montpellier Danse Festival, Festival RomaEuropa, Sadler’s Wells, Lincoln Center Festival,Maison des Arts de Créteil, Régie Culturelle Scènes et Cinés Ouest Provence
Co-production 2026 Oriente Occidente
Duration 20’
Creation 2004
Recreation 2026
Choreography, lights and costumes Emanuel Gat
Performers Théo Brassart, Anaïs Van Caekenberghe, Geremia Cappagli, Léa Delaporte, Giulia Quacqueri
Music Igor Stravinsky, The Rite Of Spring, London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Leonard Bernstein (1972)
Production Emanuel Gat Dance
Original co-production The Suzanne Dellal Centre, Festival Uzès Danse, Monaco Dance Forum
Co-production 2026 Oriente Occidente
Duration 33’
The performance is part of the subscription Passato contemporaneo. To find out more, visit the box office page.
