
Due to exceptionally high temperatures, MM Tickets will exceptionally be closed on Tuesday 1 and Wednesday 2 July. If you’d like to collect your copy of 18. The Harmony of Human Passions on these days, you can do so at the reception of the La Monnaie Workshops (Rue Léopold 23). We remain reachable by phone (02 229 12 11) between 12:00 and 18:00 and by email at tickets@lamonnaie.be.
CloseAchterland is a seminal choreography in Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker’s oeuvre. In this 1990 performance, for the first time, the choreographer gave the musicians a central position on stage and let them play an active role in the overall dynamic—an approach she would repeat in many subsequent projects. The unusual combination of György Ligeti’s and Eugène Ysaÿe’s music inspired De Keersmaeker and her dancers to create an original dance score with a delicate balance between energetic virtuosity and deceleration. This also was the choreographer’s first time writing dancing material specifically for men; she added three male dancers to what until that point had been a predominantly female company. In Achterland, the prevalent femininity and minimalism of several of Rosas’s earlier works gave way to an ambiguous no-man’s-land characterized by a blurring of boundaries and symbols.
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Pre-performance talks 30' before the start of the performances by Lodie Kardouss (in English)
Cat 1 – € 27 / Cat 2 – € 22
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ChoreographyANNE TERESA DE KEERSMAEKER
ScenographyHERMAN SORGELOOS
Light designJEAN-LUC DUCOURT
CostumesANN WECKX
PianoWILHEM LATCHOUMIA / JOONAS AHONEN
ViolinJUAN MARÍA BRACERAS / NAAMAN SLUCHIN
Danced by
ROSAS
ProductionROSAS
Co-production 1990LA MONNAIE / DE MUNT, STICHTING VAN GOGH 1990, ROTTERDAMSE SCHOUWBURG, THÉÂTRE DE LA VILLE (PARIS)
Co-production 2018CONCERTGEBOUW (BRUGGE)
Co-presentationLA MONNAIE / DE MUNT, THÉÂTRE NATIONAL, KAAITHEATER