Salva Sanchis & Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker/Rosas

A Love Supreme

12.09 – 29.09.2019

In A Love Supreme, John Coltrane and his musicians start from a simple basic structure and construct a completely free improvisation that continuously breaks new ground. In 2005, Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker and Salva Sanchis created a quartet set to Coltrane’s music. His jazz is renowned for its exploration of the tension between tonal and rhythmic complexity and simplicity. This is translated literally in the dance: improvisation and composition interweave until they fuse completely. In 2017, Sanchis and De Keersmaeker adapted A Love Supreme with four young, male dancers. The distinctly vibrant production was immediately selected for the TheaterFestival. It is high time that you join the dancers again and succumb to Coltrane’s spiritual tribute to divine love!

choreography Salva Sanchis, Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker | danced by (alternating) José Paulo dos Santos, Bilal El had, Robin Haghi, Jason Respilieux, Thomas Vantuycom | original version created in 2005 with Cynthia Loemij, Moya Michael, Salva Sanchis, Igor Shyshko | music A Love Supreme, John Coltrane | recording tenor saxophone, vocals: John Coltrane, piano: McCoy Tyner, bass: Jimmy Garrison, drums: Elvin Jones, Acknowledgement, Resolution, Pursuance & Psalm © Coltrane, J., © Jowcol Music, Inc. (Universal Music Publ. N.V.) | lighting design Jan Versweyveld | revised lighting design Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, Luc Schaltin | costumes Anne-Catherine Kunz | rehearsal director Salva Sanchis, Cynthia Loemij, Bryana Fritz | artistic coordination and planning Anne Van Aerschot | technical director Joris De Bolle | costumes coordinator Heide Vanderieck | technicians Max Adams, Jonathan Maes, Quentin Maes, Michael Smets | production Rosas | co-production De Munt/La Monnaie | special thanks to Erik Bogaerts, Jeroen Van Herzeele | world premiere 23/02/2017, Kaaitheater | Rosas is supported by the Flemish Community and by the BNP Paribas Foundation

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Rosas

Zeitigung

dance

Kaaitheater

Wed 11.12 - Sat 14.12.19

Almost ten years after Zeitung (2008), Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker and Alain Franco used the building blocks of that production to make a new one: Zeitigung. Against the backdrop of a changing world and channeled through the bodies of eight young dancers, they updated their own work – aided by the young choreographer and dancer Louis Nam Le Van Ho. Zeitigung is returning to the Kaaitheater stage, where it premièred in 2017.

Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker/Rosas

Achterland

dance

Kaaitheater

Wed 29.01 - Sun 09.02.20

Achterland (1990) is a seminal choreography in Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker’s oeuvre. The minimalism and prevalent femininity of Rosas’ early pieces gave way to an ambiguous no-man’s-land in which boundaries and symbols were blurred. Last season, the reprise of Achterland starring a new generation of Rosas dancers made a tremendous impression: don’t miss this opportunity to see it again.

Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker/Rosas & Ictus

Rain (live)

dance music

De Munt/La Monnaie

Fri 15.05 - Wed 20.05.20

Rain (2001) is one of Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker’s most characteristic performances, set to Steve Reich’s Music for 18 Musicians. Seven women and three men allow themselves to be propelled by an unstoppable joined energy. They are connected by a lively network of breathing and speed, as well as the special comradery that forms when you are beyond fatigue. In 2016, Rain was reprised with a new cast, premièring at the Royal Circus.