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Time Travellers
At the moment when the day slips inexorably into night, 12 performers, dancers and musicians celebrate the refinement and vitality of a music created in the dark ages of the Medieval world, ars subtilior. “While waiting, I must endure grevious pain / And live, languishing: it is my fate”, laments a ballad that opens this dance of vibrant bodies intimately engaged with sound. With the body as calligraphy, they inscribe the music onto the space with a sprightly, lissom touch. With exhilarating polyrhythms, both fiery and restrained and in solo and ensemble voice, they incarnate the musical notes, making them resonate even into silence. A bridge between the Middle Ages and the 21st century, a magnificent linking of dance and music.
A living legend in the Western dance world, Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker will be presenting a double bill at the FTA with En Atendant and Cesena. This incredibly beautiful work flows like a long but far from tranquil river.
May 30, 8:00 pm
Tickets: $45
Under 30, over 65: $40
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A leading figure in contemporary dance renowned for her acute understanding of music, Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker established an international reputation in the early 1980s with her duo Fase, Four Movements to the Music of Steve Reich (presented in 2008 at Usine C), and the ensemble piece Rosas danst Rosas, which was the inspiration for the name of her company. In 1995 Rosas worked with the prestigious Théâtre de la Monnaie in Brussels – where she was artist in residence from 1992 to 2007 – to create the acclaimed international school P.A.R.T.S. (Performing Arts Research and Training Studios), training many up-and-coming artists. A regular presence (five different editions) at the FIND festival, her company will be appearing this year at the FTA with two recent works.
Initially characterized by repetitive combinations and cyclical energy, the work of Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker has evolved toward forms strongly marked by rhythmic complexity and spatial geometry. Punctuated by incursions into the world of film, her career has involved both abstract pieces of pure dance such as Fase, Rain and Drumming, and multidisciplinary presentations that integrate text, voice and filmed images, works such as Elena’s Aria and Stella. Her style is precise, rigorous and energetic. Over the years she has established a close working relationship with the composer Steve Reich, and her other musical influences range from Monteverdi to Ligeti, Mozart and Coltrane. After choreographing silence in The Song and plunging into the romanticism of the 19th century in 3Abschied (co-created with Jérôme Bel), she has recently gone back in time to explore ars subtilior in En Atendant (2010) and Cesena (2011).
Press Quote(s)
« Un poème de la poussière, du souffle et du ciel chorégraphié avec une puissance d’invention sidérante. (…) Un long solo de flûte tire le spectateur dans un autre temps. Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker offre une méditation sur la vie et la quête qu’elle suppose. (…) un grand poème de la terre et du ciel, de l’élan et de l’humilité. »
Ariane BAVELIER, Le Figaro, 12 janvier 2011
« Un plateau nu, des danseurs et des musiciens en état de grâce pour un moment d’absolu. (…) Une pièce où la grâce surgit du chaos par la seule force de la danse et de la musique. »
Jean-Marie Wynants, Le Soir, 25 septembre 2010
« Une fois encore, la Flamande combine simplicité et sophistication, raideur et finesse, sans verser dans l’artificiel tout en étant évidemment au comble de l’artifice, et c’est déjà tout un art. (…) Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker opère un retour magistral… »
Rosita Boisseau, Le Monde, 15 juillet 2010
« La magie d’une danse sacrée et sensuelle. (…) Une danse abstraite, une débauche de mouvements, de tentatives de construction d’une folle complexité. Une danse abstraite qui parle au cœur, à l’âme et à l’esprit. Vie et mort sont intimement mêlés dans ce spectacle magistral qui se clôt dans la quasi obscurité. (…) Un tonnerre d’applaudissements salue musiciens et danseurs. Des projecteurs s’allument enfin, éclairant le public. Debout, fasciné, conquis. »
Jean-Marie Wynants, Le Soir, 13 juillet 2010
“Don’t expect an easy time with De Keersmaeker. She can be high-minded and demanding – and you’ll need to be attentive – but the rewards are great.”
Sanjoy Roy, The Guardian, September 8, 2009
"Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker has helped define contemporary dance as we know it."
The Independent
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Credits
PRODUCED BY Rosas
CHOREOGRAPHY Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker
CO-CREATED AND PERFORMED BY Bostjan Antoncic + Carlos Garbin + Cynthia Loemij + Mark Lorimer + Mikael Marklund + Chrysa Parkinson + Sandy Williams + Sue-Yeon Youn
RECORDERS Bart Coen + Michael Schmid
VIELLE Birgit Goris
VOCALS Annelies Van Gramberen / Poline Renou
SET DESIGN Michel François
COSTUME DESIGN Anne-Catherine Kunz
COPRODUCTION La Monnaie (Brussells) + GREC Festival de Barcelona + Grand Théâtre de Luxembourg + Théâtre de la Ville (Paris) + Festival d’Avignon + Concertgebouw Brugge
WRITTEN BY Fabienne Cabado
TRANSLATED BY Neil Kroetsch
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