Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, Rosas
GLA55
decemberdec 11 – 16
© Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker, GLA55 ©
BUS 75, 151 : Porte de Pantin
BUS 139, 150, 152 : Porte de la Villette
Metro 5 : Porte de Pantin
Metro 7 : Corentin Cariou or Porte de la Villette
Tramway 3B : Porte de Pantin or Porte de la Villette
Friday december 11
20h
Saturday december 12
15h
Saturday december 12
19h
Sunday december 13
11h
Sunday december 13
17h
Tuesday december 15
20h
Wednesday december 16
20h
Choreography Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker. Performed by and created with Boštjan Antončič, Niklas Capel, Lav Crnčević, José Paulo dos Santos, Sunai Elbers, Sue Yeon Youn. Music Music in Contrary Motion; Music in Fifths; Music in Similar Motion; Music with Changing Parts by Philip Glass. Musicians Ictus & Bl!ndman Fabian Coomans, Chryssi Dimitriou, Aisha Orazbayeva, Hendrik Pellens, Jean-Luc Plouvier, Piet Rebel, Eric Sleichim. Lighting Minna Tiikkainen. Costumes Aouatif Boulaich. Dramaturgy Wannes Gyselinck. Sound Alexandre Fostier.
Production Rosas
Co-production Berliner Festspiele; Festival d’Automne à Paris; La Villette; Concertgebouw (Bruges) ; Piccolo Teatro di Milano—Teatro d’Europa (Milano)
With the support of Dance Reflections by Van Cleef & Arpels
This production is realised with the support of the Belgian Federal Government’s Tax Shelter scheme by Casa Kafka Pictures
Rosas receives support from the Flemish Community and the Flemish Community Commission (VGC)
La Villette and the Festival d’Automne à Paris are co-producers of this show and present it as a co-realisation.
With the support of Xavier Marin.
With the support of
In GLA55, Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker returns to American minimalist music and explores, for the first time, the work of Philip Glass. Set to four of the composer’s early works, performed live by the ICTUS ensemble, six dancers push abstraction to the frontier with trance.
As Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker points out, the works from the early part of an artist’s life carry with them energy of a very specific kind. They possess that same, equally moving combination of radicality and naivety that documents the emergence of a style. With GLA55, her latest work, and in parallel with the ICTUS ensemble musicians, the choreographer once again finds the minimalism which played a major role in the definition of her own dance—notably with Fase, first performed in 1982, and set to four pieces by Steve Reich dating back to the mid 1960’s. Here, four Philip Glass scores from 1969 and 1970 become the foundations for ten movements for six dancers, that alternate between spinning tops and whirling dervishes. There is a form of maximalism in this obsession with trying to exhaust the possibilities of a musical material reduced to its bare essentials via a restricted number of geometric shapes: the circle, spiral and ellipse become the principal figures of a dance that borders on trance. GLA55 has an instant, rejuvenating effect.
In the same place
BUS 75, 151 : Porte de Pantin
BUS 139, 150, 152 : Porte de la Villette
Metro 5 : Porte de Pantin
Metro 7 : Corentin Cariou or Porte de la Villette
Tramway 3B : Porte de Pantin or Porte de la Villette