Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker

Achterland

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© Achterland © Anne Van Aerschot ©

© Achterland © Anne Van Aerschot ©

© Achterland © Herman Sorgeloos ©

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Choreography, Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker
Music, György Ligeti, 8 Studies for piano solo ; Eugène Ysaÿe, Sonatas 2, 3 & 4 for solo violin
With (alternately) Laura Bachman, Lav Crnčević, Léa Dubois, José Paulo dos Santos, Anika Edström Kawaji, Bilal El Had, Frank Gizycki, Robin Haghi, Yuika Hashimoto, Laura Maria Poletti, Soa Ratsifandrihana, Luka Švajda
Musicians, Wilhem Latchoumia (piano), Juan María Braceras / Naaman Sluchin (violin – alternately)
Set design, Herman Sorgeloos
Lights, Jean Luc Ducourt
Costumes, Ann Weckx

A Rosas production
A coproduction (1990) La Monnaie / De Munt (Brussels) ; Fondation Van Gogh (Amsterdam) ; Rotterdamse Schouwburg ; Théâtre de la Ville-Paris
In association with Maison des Arts Créteil ; Théâtre de la Ville-Paris ; Festival d’Automne à Paris for performances at Maison des Arts Créteil
First performed on 27 Novembre 1990 at La Monnaie / De Munt (Brussels)
The Fondation d’entreprise Hermès is the patron of the Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker Portrait.
In partnership with France Inter

Achterland, a milestone in Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker’s work, marks the transformation of the minimalism of her earlier pieces. It does so by integrating into its syntax an increasingly large and complex range of movements. Both joyful and meditative, the composition leaves room for variation, friction - and full cohabitation of the space by both dancer and musician.

Onstage are five women, three men and two musicians. Achterland (1990) occupies a decisive place in Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker’s career path. It saw her attempting to involve the musicians in the stage dynamic more fully - an approach that she then went on to develop extensively. Performing these compositions live demands high levels of musical accomplishment, a precision which is reflected in the gestural phrases rigorously composed by the choreographer. The unique combination of the György Ligeti’s piano studies and Eugène Ysaÿe’s violin sonatas took De Keersmaeker and her dancers towards a paradoxical form of choreographic writing, consisting of a delicate balance of virtuoso impulses and decelerations. In addition, Achterland, in which three male dancers joined a company composed primarily of women, was the first time that the choreographer conceived a partition characterised by a strongly masculine tone. Minimalism and femininity, bywords for a former era, were slowly being transformed. Instead, we were being lead in the direction of a radical no-man’s land, of shifting frontiers and blurring of signs.
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Running time: 1h30

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Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, Radouan Mriziga / Rosas, A7LA5
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In collaboration with the choreographer and dancer Radouan Mriziga, the challenge taken up by Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker is to make Vivaldi's Four Seasons heard, using the tools of dance to hone the way we listen to this baroque masterpiece. Under the auspices of abstraction, the resulting alliance reconnects with the imaginary ecological world that is conjured up by this famous concerto.
Fondation Fiminco
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Rabih Mroué, Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker
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As part of a special invitation by the Festival d'Automne, choreographer Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker and director Rabih Mroué shared, over the course of ten months, their thoughts, concerns, doubts, and questions regarding politics, art and life. After numerous exchanges by videoconference, the two artists now come together on the site of the former industrial complex, the new home of the Fiminco Foundation. Together, for the duration of a performance, they will be drawing up the plans for a new world for all.

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