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Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker / Rosas
Drumming (1998)
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Drumming (1998) is one of Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker’s most iconic choreographies, written to the eponymous, minimalistic percussion score by Steve Reich. The music starts with a single rhythmic motif, which subsequently multiplies and unfolds into a rich cornucopia of textures including drums, woodwinds, brass and voice. Reich here ramps up the technique already used in his earlier composition Piano Phase: through minor tempo accelerations the musicians almost imperceptibly push their unison out of joint, resulting in a never-ending volley of canons. In the dance, the choreographic complexity was devised in a similar fashion: a single movement phrase serves as the foundation for an infinite number of variations across time and space. When the music stops and the bodies come to a halt, the audience realizes what they have witnessed: a wave of pure dance and pure sound, a vortex of vital energy.
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 (who was born in 1960) created Asch, her first choreographic work. Two years later, she premiered Fase, Four Movements to the Music of Steve Reich. She founded the Rosas company in 1983, in Brussels, while working on Rosas danst Rosas. Her choreographies have ever since been seen as means to explore the existing relation between dance and music.
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 (who was born in 1960) created Asch, her first choreographic work. Two years later, she premiered Fase, Four Movements to the Music of Steve Reich. She founded the Rosas company in 1983, in Brussels, while working on Rosas danst Rosas. Her choreographies have ever since been seen as means to explore the existing relation between dance and music.
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- Price 3.50€
Duration 1.00h
Age >12
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Ficha Técnica
- Choreography Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker
Danced by Kim Amankwaa, Boštjan Antončič, Laura Bachman, Alex Blondeau, Cassandre Cantillon, Lav Crnčević, Sophia Dinkel, José Paulo dos Santos, Léa Dubois, Anika Edström Kawaji, Papis Faye, Rafael Galdino, Frank Gizycki, Yuika Hashimoto, Thomas Higginson, Audrey Merilus, Mariana Miranda, Laura Maria Poletti, Margarida Ramalhete, Soa Ratsifandrihana, Lena Schattenberg, Cintia Sebők, Jacob Storer, Mamadou Wagué
Created in 1998 with Iris Bouche, Bruce Campbell, Marta Coronado, Alix Eynaudi, Fumiyo Ikeda, Martin Kilvády, Oliver Koch, Cynthia Loemij, Roberto Oliván de la Iglesia, Ursula Robb, Taka Shamoto, Rosalba Torres
Music Steve Reich, Drumming
Music direction Georges-Elie Octors
Musicians Ictus
Set and lighting Jan Versweyveld
Costumes Dries Van Noten
Production 1998 Rosas, La Monnaie / De Munt (Brussels), La Bâtie - Festival de Genève
Co-production La Monnaie / De Munt (Brussels), Sadler's Wells (London), Les Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg