EMANUEL GAT FREEDOM SONATA

Created using Kanye West's album The Life of Pablo (2016) and Beethoven's ultimate Piano Sonata No. 32, Opus 111 in C minor, Freedom Sonata is a fascinating work that plays on contrasts and oppositions, taking up the principles of sonata form to better transgress it, namely three movements - exposition, development and re-exposition (or recapitulation). The choreography is surprising in its daring and unexpected borrowings from other codes. The deceptively unexpected encounters and...