Due to illness, Myrtò Papatanasiu will not be able to perform during the Bastarda performances of 21 and 23 March. The role of Elisabetta will be performed by Francesca Sassu.

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Dance

Rosas Creation

Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, Meskerem Mees, Jean-Marie Aerts, Carlos Garbin / Rosas

Presentation

For Creation 2023Anne 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. In Creation 2023 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
Gallery

Gallery

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
MusicJEAN-MARIE AERTS, MESKEREM MEES, CARLOS GARBIN Music performed by CARLOS GARBIN, MESKEREM MEES TextWANNES GYSELINCK ScenographyMICHEL FRANÇOIS Light designMAX ADAMS Costumes designAOUATIF BOULAICH Rehearsal Directors
CYNTHIA LOEMIJ, CLINTON STRINGER

ProductionROSAS CoproductionLA MONNAIE (BRUXELLES)
CONCERTGEBOUW BRUGGE
DANCE REFLECTIONS BY VAN CLEEF & ARPELS
THÉÂTRE DE LA VILLE À PARIS

World Première
31 may 2023, Théatre National, Brussels

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.