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Dance

EXIT ABOVE
After the storm
Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, Meskerem Mees, Jean-Marie Aerts, Carlos Garbin / Rosas

Presentation
Dance

For EXIT ABOVE, Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker retraces her steps: to the roots of dance, the roots of Western pop music. The starting point for the performance is the song Walking Blues by legendary blues artist Robert Johnson; even though the journey leads back to Der Wanderer by Schubert, the best known singer-songwriter of the 19th Century. Meskerem Mees, a singer songwriter of today, will compose a series of variations and adaptations of 'walking songs,’  together with Jean-Marie Aerts, sound architect of the Belgian 80s rock formation TC Matic, and with dancer and guitarist Carlos Garbin.

These songs invite De Keersmaeker to embark on a journey towards the starting point of choreography itself – walking, the primary form of movement, so familiar that we hardly stop to think about it. EXIT ABOVE explores the tension between marching together and stepping out, between romantic solitary ‘wandern’ (wandering) and the political potential of a group of unarmed people walking together, the individual and the collective, the line and the circle. A performance revealing the extent to which our inner world is also a landscape of thoughts and reminiscences that can often only be traversed on foot.

This production is part of Troika Dance
Dates & tickets

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Location

Théâtre National

Prices

Standard: € 30
-30 / +65: € 25

Running time

90' (without interval)

Presentation

Introduction 45' before the start of the performance

Gallery

Gallery

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Dates & tickets

Dates

Cast
Cast

ChoreographyANNE TERESA DE KEERSMAEKER Created with and dansed byABIGAIL ALEKSANDER, JEAN PIERRE BURÉ, LAV CRNČEVIĆ, JOSÉ PAULO DOS SANTOS, RAFA GALDINO, CARLOS GARBIN, NINA GODDERIS, SOLAL MARIOTTE, MESKEREM MEES, MARIANA MIRANDA, ARIADNA NAVARRETE VALVERDE, CINTIA SEBŐK, JACOB STORER MusicMESKEREM MEES, JEAN-MARIE AERTS, CARLOS GARBIN Music performed by MESKEREM MEES, CARLOS GARBIN Text and LyricsMESKEREM MEES, WANNES GYSELINCK DramaturgyWANNES GYSELINCK ScenographyMICHEL FRANÇOIS Light designMAX ADAMS Costumes designAOUATIF BOULAICH Rehearsal DirectorsCYNTHIA LOEMIJ, CLINTON STRINGER Artistic Coordination and PlanningANNE VAN AERSCHOT Assistant to the Artistic DirectorMARTINE LANGE TourmanagersBERT DE BOCK, JOLIJN TALPE Technical DirectorFREEK BOEY Assistant Technical DirectorJONATHAN MAES TechniciansJAN BALFOORT, JONATHAN MAES, QUENTIN MAES, THIBAULT ROTTIERS SoundANTOINE DELAGOUTTE, ALEX FOSTIER Costume Coördinator ad interimEMMA ZUNE assisted byELS VAN BUGGENHOUT WardrobeELS VAN BUGGENHOUT, EMMA ZUNE SewingCHIARA MAZZAROLO, MARTHA VERLEYEN

ProductionROSAS CoproductionLA MONNAIE (BRUSSELS)
CONCERTGEBOUW BRUGGE (BRUGES),
INTERNATIONAAL THEATER AMSTERDAM,
LE THÉÂTRE GARONNE (TOULOUSE),
GIE FONDOC OCCITANIE 

World Première
31 may 2023, Théatre National, Brussels
presented by Théâtre National Wallonie-Bruxelles, De Munt/ La Monnaie, Kaaitheater and Kunstenfestivaldesarts

With the support of Dance Reflections by Van Cleef & Arpels

Acknowledgements
Baptiste Alexandre, Naomie Bentein, Bert De Swert, Michel Dierickx, Steven Fillet, Nicolas Fiszman, Ann-Sofie Merlier, Miet Ongena, Tom Pauwels, Jean-Luc Plouvier, Olivier Thys, Alexandra Verschueren

This production is realized with the support of the Tax Shelter of the Belgian Federal Government, in collaboration with Casa Kafka Pictures – Belfius.

Rosas is supported by the Flemish Community, the Flemish Community Commission (VGC), and by the BNP Paribas Foundation.

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