Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker / Rosas Rosas Danst Rosas

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An iconic work, Rosas danst Rosas, displays a relentless machinery of ordinary movements, extreme rigor and force. This thrilling choreography is still as impactful, sensual, and intense as ever. A fiery quartet driven by blazing energy, as gripping as it was at its inception.

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1h35

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  • Dance
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  • À partir de 14 ans
Dates
  • Thursday 10 Sep.
    19h30
  • Friday 11 Sep.
    19h30
  • Saturday 12 Sep.
    17h00
  • Tuesday 15 Sep.
    19h30
  • Wednesday 16 Sep.
    19h30
  • Thursday 17 Sep.
    19h30
  • Full Price
    46€
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Rosas danst Rosas premiered in 1993, raising Anna Teresa De Keersmaeker’s international profile and laying the foundations of her dance language, which combines rigorous structure, basic movements, and perpetual tension between framework and expansion. This piece came about in a period when American post-modern dance was already exploring the significance of ordinary gestures and repetition. Structured around the three elemental positions of the body – lying, sitting, standing – it displays a dance language of unrelenting precision while being deeply moving. This tension between exactness and weakness, discipline and sensuality, makes Rosas danst Rosas a pivotal and radical work, often considered as a female manifesto. The choreography is impressive in its intensity variations, tensions, and wild accelerations verging on paroxysm. The four performers string together swings, spirals, suspensions, and sudden flips as their bodies experience various forces – anger, desire, violence – and reach out for freedom. The “maximalist” music of Thierry De Mey and Peter Vermeersch, specially composed for it, the film directed in 1997, and the participatory platform Re: Rosas!, where hundreds of people learned and posted their version of her famous “chair dance”, have made this piece timeless and almost universal. Performed nearly 500 times by 28 dancers across five generations, it has become a milestone of European contemporary dance.

Agnès Izrine
Traduction Jean-Charles Ladurelle
 

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