Emanuel Gat Dance - Five Days in the Sun

An artist of pure choreographic lines shaped by musical composition, Emanuel Gat returns to Venice with a new work built around Mahler’s Fifth Symphony, a piece in which the composer’s writing evolves towards abstraction and pure instrumentality while remaining deeply infused with pathos.

Five Days in the Sun unfolds in five choreographic tableaux, one for each symphonic movement, each opening a passage into a profound journey through human experience. A rich interweaving of emotions and contrasts, the performance moves from darkness to light, from despair to joy, and from tension to release, navigating between solemnity and ecstasy, introspection and outward movement, while tracing a broad narrative arc that explores themes of love, mortality and transformation.

The work also marks a new challenge for Emanuel Gat’s entirely renewed company: twelve dancers from across the world.