Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker/Rosas & Ictus [BE]

Rain (live)

04.10 – 07.10.2016

Like a spreading fire

Rain (2001) is one of Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker's most vibrant performances and is set to Steve Reichs Music for 18 Musicians. In many ways, the piece continued the choreographic principles that she had initiated three years previously with Drumming. Mathematical figures, continuous repetitions, the geometric utilisation of space and the art of continual variation: here De Keersmaeker pushes to its limits everything that had gradually become her trademark.

You are gripped by a kind of madness of movement. Like a spreading fire, it jumps from one body to another, without pausing at any one person. To the pulsing notes of Steve Reich’s minimalistic music – performed live by Ictus – ten dancers surrender themselves to an irrepressible collective energy. A bubbling network of breathing and speed connects them, as does that strange camaraderie that appears only beyond the limits of exhaustion.

• This season, we are presenting four performances from the Rosas repertoire. We kick off with Rain, on location at the Cirque Royale. Later, with Rosas danst Rosas, A Love Supreme and Golden Hours (As you like it), you can (re-)experience three further defining moments from 33 years of Rosas’ dance history.

choreography Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker | danced by Laura Bachman, Léa Dubois, Anika Edström Kawaji, Zoi Efstathiou, Yuika Hashimoto, Laura Maria Poletti, Soa Ratsifandrihana, José Paulo dos Santos, Frank Gizycki, Robin Haghi, Luka Švajda, Thomas Vantuycom, Lav Crncevic | music Steve Reich (Music for 18 Musicians) | musicians Ictus Miquel Bernat, Tom de Cock, Géry Cambier, Michael Weilacher, Jessica Ryckwaert (percussions), Gerrit Nulens, Georges-Elie Octors (percussions & piano), Laurence Cornez, Fabian Fiorini, Jean-Luc Fafchamps, Stéphane Ginsburg (piano), Dirk Descheemaeker, Carlos Galvez (clarinet), Igor Semenoff (violin), Geert de Bièvre (cello), Micaela Haslam, Amanda Morrison, Heather Cairncross, Caroline Jaya-Ratnam (voice) | set and lighting design Jan Versweyveld | costume design Dries Van Noten | production 2001 Rosas & De Munt/La Monnaie (Brussel/Bruxelles) | co-production 2016 De Munt / La Monnaie (Brussel/Bruxelles), Sadler’s Wells (London), Les Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg | premiere 10.01.2001, De Munt / La Monnaie (Brussel/Bruxelles) | Rosas is supported by the Flemish Community

‘Een lofrede op spiraalsgewijs leven.’ Een gesprek tussen Steve Reich en Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker (De Munt magazine)

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Rosas

Golden Hours (As you like it)

dance

Rosas Performance Space

Tue 20.12 - Thu 22.12.16

What happens when Shakespeare’s rhythmic and poetic visual language becomes dance? Golden Hours (As you like it) – an encounter between Brian Eno and Shakespeare – draws you into a mildly ironic world, where the characters speak a language that doesn’t need deciphering to be grasped, yet isn’t pantomime.

Rosas

A Love Supreme

dance

Kaaitheater

Thu 23.02 - Sat 04.03.17

In 2005, Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, along with Salva Sanchis, created a quartet set to John Coltrane’s jazz album A Love Supreme. Improvisation and composition interweave until they melt together. Join a new cast of young performers, in giving yourself over to Coltrane’s spiritual ode to divine love!

Rosas

Rosas danst Rosas

dance

Kaaitheater

Wed 21.06 - Thu 29.06.17

In 1983, Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker firmly put her newly formed dance company Rosas on the international map with Rosas danst Rosas. Four dancers dance themselves, again and again. For this revival, an entirely new, young cast will dance Rosas danst Rosas.

Ictus & Fumiyo Ikeda

Piano and String Quartet

dance music

Kaaitheater

Fri 27.01 - Sat 28.01.17

Dancer and choreographer Fumiyo Ikeda takes you on a journey to the heart of Morton Feldman’s Piano and String Quartet. This 80-minute composition for piano and strings exudes an aura of tranquillity, in which ‘each is just as much an echo of the other’. Ikeda shares the stage with the soloists of Ictus, as though she herself were the sixth musician.

Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker

artist

In 1980, after studying dance at Mudra School in Brussels and Tisch School of the Arts in New York,Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker (b. 1960) created Asch, her first choreographic work.