STEVE REICH EVENING
choreography Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker / danced by and created with Bostjan Antoncic, Tale Dolven, Kosi Hidama, Kaya Kolodziejczyk, Cynthia Loemij, Mark Lorimer, Moya Michael, Zsuzsa Rozsavölgyi, Igor Shyshko, Clinton Stringer, Sue-Yeon Youn, Anne-Linn Akselsen / rehearsal directer Vincent Dunoyer / coaches Drumming Marta Coronado, Ursula Robb / musique Steve Reich, György Ligeti / musical analysis Alain Franco / sound Alexandre Fostier / lighting Remon Fromont / lighting and set Drumming by Jan Versweyveld / costumes Tim Van Steenbergen, Dries Van Noten Drumming, Rosas Fase, assistant Anne Catherine Kunz / artistic assistance Anne Van Aerschot / production directer Johan Penson assisted by Tom Van Aken / set and lighting assistance Joris Erven, Jan Herinckx, Simo Reynders, Kristof Van Dijck, Jan De Keyser, Jitske Vandenbussche / wardrobe assistants Emma Zune and Valerie Dewaele / acknowledgements Jakub Truszkowski, Steve Reich, Michèle Anne De Mey, Bart Delporte, Johanne Saunier, David Hernandez, Lance Gries, Caroline Wagner, Freek Boey, Viviane Van Dyck, Evelyne Sax, Ignace Minne / / / / / production Rosas & De Munt/La Monnaie / coproduction Grand Théâtre de la Ville de Luxembourg, Théâtre de la Ville Paris / / / /
Friday, 25 and Saturday, 26 January 2008 at 8:30 p.m.
Since the beginning, the American composer Steve Reich has accompanied the journey of the Flemish choreographer, Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker: he prepares the ground for her, he inspires her. This multi-piece program, baptised the Steve Reich Evening, revisits several ballets based on the music of the composer and performed by the Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker Company. It presents the essential musical logic of Steve Reich (whose compositions are recorded here by the celebrated ensemble, Ictus) as well as that of the choreographer’s work: adapting and readapting the dance to the music, uniting them in a rigorous, obsessive and free fashion. The music and the dance interweave and exalt the recurring and bewitching dynamic of the rhythm: the nuances in the repetition, the acceleration and the deceleration, the dizzying speed and the exhaustion.
At the beginning of the 1980s, the young choreographer, Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, brought to the stage her very first performance: Asch. This former student of Mudra, the school founded by Maurice Béjart, would give a new orientation to dance in Flanders. In 1981, she went to New York to study at the Tisch School of the Arts where she came into direct contact with post-modern American dance. The influence of postmodernism was evident in 1982 in her next work: Fase, one of the dances presented in this program. In 1983 the Rosas Company was created, wherein her choreography developed its particular vocabulary, with the creation of numerous works where the unique relationship between the dance and the music is a constant. Since 1992, Rosas has been associated with the Monnaie, the National Opera of Brussels.
