La Monnaie / De Munt LA MONNAIE / DE MUNT
A Love Supreme
© Anne Van Aerschot
Dance

A Love
Supreme
Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, Salva Sanchis, John Coltrane

Presentation

IMPROVISATION WITH A NOTE OF DANCE AND JAZZ

“Improvisation is composition in the immediacy of the moment” reflects Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker. In the instrumental suite A Love Supreme, one of the highlights of 20th century jazz, there is a remarkable tension between complexity and simplicity. Coltrane uses the structures of blues music to produce highly intuitive freewheeling improvisations fuelled by his limitless creativity. The choreography takes on the challenge of bringing together improvisation and formal composition, to interweave them and to let them become absorbed in one another. Choreographed in 2005 by Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker and Salva Sanchis A Love Supreme has been reworked for a new cast of young performers and extended into a full evening’s programme. The result is a performance of great strength in which the dancers surrender themselves totally to the spirituality of Coltrane’s music, together creating a hymn to divine love.

Dates & tickets

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Location

Kaaitheater

Prices

€ 20

Presentation

Pre-performance talks half an hour before the start of the performances by Lodie Kardouss (in English), except Sunday 26.02

Running time

ca 1h

  • John Coltrane A Love Supreme (1964)
    Premiere Les Halles de Schaerbeek, Brussels, 24/5/2005
    Revision 23/2/2017
Gallery

Gallery

Dates & tickets

Dates

Cast
Cast

Music JOHN COLTRANE

Choreography ANNE TERESA DE KEERSMAEKER, SALVA SANCHIS Lighting LUC SCHALTIN Costumes ANNE-CATHERINE KUNZ
 

Danced by
JOSÉ PAULO DOS SANTOS, BILAL EL HAD, JASON RESPILIEUX, THOMAS VANTUYCOM

PRODUCTION La Monnaie / De Munt, Rosas
CO-PRESENTATION La Monnaie / De Munt, Rosas & Kaaitheater