Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, Radouan Mriziga / Rosas, A7LA5
Il Cimento dell’Armonia e dell’Inventione
septembersept 13 - 22
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Anne Van Aerschot ©
Anne Van Aerschot ©
Friday september 13
20h00
Saturday september 14
20h00
Sunday september 15
15h00
Tuesday september 17
20h00
Wednesday september 18
20h00
Thursday september 19
20h00
Saturday september 21
20h00
Sunday september 22
15h00
Choreography Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, Radouan Mriziga. Created with and performed by Boštjan Antončič, Nassim Baddag, Lav Crnčević, José Paulo dos Santos. Music Antonio Vivaldi. Le quattro stagioni – recording by Amandine Beyer and her ensemble Gli Incogniti (Alpha Classics/ Outhere Music 2015). Musical analysis Amandine Beyer. Set and light design Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, Radouan Mriziga. Costume design Aouatif Boulaich. Rehearsal director Eleni Ellada Damianou.
Production Rosas
Coproduction Berliner Festspiele ; Charleroi danse – Centre chorégraphique de la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles ; Concertgebouw Brugge ; De Munt – La Monnaie (Brussels) ; Festival de Marseille ; ImPulsTanz (Vienna) ; Sadler’s Wells (London) ; Théâtre de la Ville-Paris ; Festival d’Automne à Paris
This production has been made with the support of the Belgian federal government's Tax Shelter programme, in collaboration with Casa Kafka Pictures.
Rosas is supported by the Flemish Community and the Flemish Community Commission (VGC)
With the support of Dance Reflections by Van Cleef & Arpels
The Théâtre de la Ville-Paris and the Festival d’Automne à Paris are co-producers of this show and present it as a co-realisation.
With the support of
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.
Antonio Vivaldi's The Four Seasons is undoubtedly one of the most famous "hits" of Western high-culture music. Which of us has never heard the first, spritely notes of Spring, or the soaring, lyrical flights of Summer? The four concertos are, however, much more than a heritage set in stone, or a ritornello which has been heard over and over again hundreds of times. Accompanied by Amandine Beyer, the undertaking that Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker and Radouan Mriziga embark upon consists of apprehending the score in all its complexity in order to expose the originality of this baroque masterpiece and the emotions it stirs up. With their common fascination for the natural elements, geometry and the power of abstraction, the two artists combine their approaches to dance in order to convey all the nuances of this score – alternating between wild flights, gentle melancholia and bucolic euphoria. Via the prism of the four seasons, a whole ecological backdrop flows in, irrigating the movement in the process. The concern that this process evokes is rooted in the perception of climate upheaval, of which one of the most worrying signs is the gradual fading away of the passage of the seasons.
See also
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