
Dance
Bartók /
Beethoven /
Schönberg
Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, Rosas
Music live performed by musicians of Ictus and the Brussels Philharmonic
On this repertoire evening, Rosas brings together three early works by Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker. In 1986, De Keersmaeker first ventured into the terrain of early 20th-century classical music with Bartók’s Fourth String Quartet. In a choreography punctuated by both playful and combative accents, De Keersmaeker took on the task of distilling a dance score out of Bartók’s complex rhythms and layered harmonies. In Die Grosse Fuge (1992), De Keersmaeker sets out to find a male vocabulary, with the dancers of Rosas challenging gravity in a piece that sought to provide a physical translation of Beethoven’s ingenious use of counterpoint. The final piece of the evening, Verklärte Nacht (1995), presents a shamelessly romantic love story, in which the contrasting feelings of a man and a woman are dissected and interpreted in an expressive duet / trio based on Schoenberg’s musical score of the same name. Each of the three pieces constitutes a choreographic response to a specific historical score, illustrating De Keersmaeker’s penchant for both abstract conceptualisation and narrative composition.
Musique
- Béla Bartók
String Quartet No.4, Sz.91. (from Bartók, Notes) - Ludwig van Beethoven
Große Fuge, op.133 - Arnold Schoenberg
Verklärte Nacht, op.4
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Dates
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Wed 19 June 2019
Time
20:30
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Thu 20 June 2019
Time
20:30
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Fri 21 June 2019
Time
20:30
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Sat 22 June 2019
Time
20:30
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Sun 23 June 2019
Time
15:00
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Tue 25 June 2019
Time
20:30
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Wed 26 June 2019
Time
20:30
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Thu 27 June 2019
Time
20:30
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Cast
ChoreographyANNE TERESA DE KEERSMAEKER
Music directorALAIN FRANCO (VERKLÄRTE NACHT)
LightingLUC SCHALTIN, ANNE TERESA DE KEERSMAEKER
CostumesROSAS, RUDY SABOUNGHI (VERKLÄRTE NACHT)
Danced by
ROSAS
String Quartet No.4
ICTUS
Große Fuge
ICTUS
Verklärte Nacht
MUSICIANS OF BRUSSELS PHILHARMONIC
ProductionROSAS
Co-productionDE MUNT / LA MONNAIE
Co-presentationKAAITHEATER