Dance
The Goldberg Variations, BWV 988
Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker, Pavel Kolesnikov / Alain Franco, Rosas
This is my dance golden jubilee— Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker
In his Goldberg Variations, Bach presents an interplay of variations, canons, and fugues that transform a simple, modest melody into an extraordinarily multifaceted musical cosmos. Together with the pianists Pavel Kolesnikov and Alain Franco, Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker uses Bach’s score as the blueprint for a similar exercise: exploring a form that is constantly changing. The large forces of her The Six Brandenburg Concertos are here reduced to a single soloist, the choreographer herself, who draws on her choreographic archives – with movement quotations from iconic works such as Fase, Bartók, and Drumming – while improvisation also permits the unpredictable.
The work, created around the time of her sixtieth birthday, marks a new, very personal milestone in De Keersmaeker’s ongoing search for her own choreographic idiom.
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Wed 01 Sept 2021
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20:30
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Thu 02 Sept 2021
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20:30
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Fri 03 Sept 2021
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20:30
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Sat 04 Sept 2021
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20:30
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Wed 08 Sept 2021
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20:30
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Thu 09 Sept 2021
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Fri 10 Sept 2021
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20:30
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Sat 11 Sept 2021
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Wed 15 Sept 2021
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Thu 16 Sept 2021
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Fri 17 Sept 2021
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Sat 18 Sept 2021
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Cast
Choreography and dance Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker
Music Goldberg-Variationen, BWV 988 (Johann Sebastian Bach)
Piano Pavel Kolesnikov (01 — 04.09 & 14 — 18.09)
Alain Franco (08 — 11.09)
Set and lighting design Minna Tiikkainen
Production RosasCo-production Wiener Festwochen, Concertgebouw (Brugge), La Monnaie / De Munt, Théâtre de la Ville (Paris), Internationaal Theater Amsterdam / Julidans, Sadler’s Wells (London), Montpellier Danse
World première 26.8.2020, Wiener Festwochen
