Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, Meskerem Mees, Jean-Marie Aerts, Carlos Garbin / Rosas
EXIT ABOVE – after the tempest
June
2025
Fri
6
Sat
7
Sinopse
With this new creation, Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker shifts her exploration of the relationship between music and dance back to pop music. With its simple form, strong melodies and catchy lyrics, pop is for many people the most everyday and immediate music experience. This is where the potential of theatre arises, as well as choreographic questions such as: How do you relate to song lyrics? How do you abstract something that is so pronounced? This creation emphasises the need for stories and music that we can relate to and recognise. The starting point for the performance is the song Walking Blues, by legendary blues artist Robert Johnson, even though the journey leads back to Der Wanderer, by Schubert. — Rosas
stories
pop
walking
intersections
© Anne Van Aerschot
© Anne Van Aerschot
© Anne Van Aerschot
© Anne Van Aerschot
© Anne Van Aerschot
Aditional info
- Price
12€
-
Duration
1h30
- Age rating
To be defined by CCE
Acessibilidades do espetáculo
Accessible to wheelchair users
No text
Author's bio text
In 1980, after studying dance at the Mudra School in Brussels and the Tisch School of the Arts in New York, Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker (b. 1960) created Asch [Ash], her first choreographic work. Two years later came the premiere of Fase, Four Movements to the Music of Steve Reich. De Keersmaeker established the dance company Rosas in Brussels in 1983, while creating the legendary work Rosas danst Rosas [Rosas dances Rosas]. Since these breakthrough pieces, her choreography has been grounded in a rigorous and productive exploration of the relationship between dance and music. With Rosas, she has created a wide range of works that engage musical structures and scores from multiple periods, from early music to contemporary and popular idioms. Her choreographic practice also draws formal principles from geometry, numerical patterns, the natural world and social structures to offer a unique perspective on the articulation of the body in space and time. In 1995, De Keersmaeker founded the renowned dance school P.A.R.T.S. (Performing Arts Research and Training Studios) in Brussels in collaboration with De Munt/La Monnaie.
Co-presentation with:
Culturgest (Lisbon)
Co-presentation with:
Culturgest (Lisbon)
Ficha Técnica
- Choreography
Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker
Created with and danced by
Abigail Aleksander, Jean Pierre Buré, Lav Crn?evi?, José Paulo dos Santos, Rafa Galdino, Carlos Garbin, Nina Godderis, Solal Mariotte, Meskerem Mees, Mariana Miranda, Ariadna Navarrete Valverde, Cintia Seb?k, Jacob Storer
Also danced by
Pierre Bastin, Nathan Felix-Rivot, Robson Ledesma, Margarida Marques Ramalhete
Music
Meskerem Mees, Jean-Marie Aerts, Carlos Garbin
Music performed by
Meskerem Mees, Carlos Garbin
Scenography
Michel François
Lighting design
Max Adams
Costumes design
Aouatif Boulaich
- Text and lyrics
Meskerem Mees, Wannes Gyselinck
Dramaturgy
Wannes Gyselinck
Rehearsal directors
Cynthia Loemij, Clinton Stringer
Produced by
Rosas
Co-produced by
Concertgebouw Brugge (Bruges), De Munt/La Monnaie (Brussels), Internationaal Theater Amsterdam, Le Théâtre Garonne (Toulouse), GIE FONDOC OCCITANIE (Le Parvis Tarbes, Scène nationale d’ALBI-Tarn, Le Cratère Alès, Scène nationale Grand Narbonne, Théâtre Garonne)
With the support of
Dance Reflections by Van Cleef & Arpels
This production has the support of the Tax Shelter of the Belgian Federal Government, in collaboration with Casa Kafka Pictures.
Rosas has the support of the Flemish Community and the Flemish Community Commission (VGC).
