6-9 Apr 2023
Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, Alain Franco — Rosas
The Goldberg Variations, BWV988
© Anne Van Aerchot
© Anne Van Aerchot
© Anne Van Aerchot
Co-production with the MC93
Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker herself dances to these Goldberg Variations by Johann Sebastian Bach. A star casting for an elevating performance.
With the Goldberg Variations, Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker continues her dialog with the work of Johann Sebastian Bach, which began in 1993 with Toccata and has continued ever since, tirelessly exploring the correspondences and tensions between the mathematically rigorous structures of musical composition and her choreographic thinking. In the Goldberg Variations, Bach pushes the density of his writing to the extreme, playing with all the resources of variation, canon and fugue. A playful and complex score, for which Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker returns to the solo form, which she performs herself. Of note is that De Keersmaeker conceived this piece as her last solo, an opportunity to re-read the path she has taken in the light of contemporary questions, to update a vocabulary and to probe the persistence of her desire as a choreographer. What she finds in these jubilant variations places her definitively on the side of play, invention and reinvention of the self.
Vincent Théval
Choreography and performance Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker
Music Johann Sebastian Bach, Les Variations Goldberg, BWV 988
Piano Alain Franco
Musical collaboration Alain Franco
Choreography assistant Diane Madden
Stage design and lighting Minna Tiikkainen
Sound Alban Moraud et Erwan Boulay
Artistic assistant Martine Lange
Artistic co-ordination and schedule Anne Van Aerschot
Touring manager Bert De Bock
Technical direction Freek Boey
Assisted by Jonathan Maes
Technical staff Jan Balfoort, Quentin Maes, Thibault Rottiers, Laurie Sanchez
Dressmaker Emma Zune assisted by Els Van Buggenhout
Sewing Emmanuelle Erhart
Dresser Chiara Mazzarolo
Production Rosas
Coproduction Wiener Festwochen / Concertgebouw (Bruges) / De Munt – La Monnaie / Théâtre de la Ville et Théâtre du Châtelet (Paris) / Internationaal Theater Amsterdam, Julidans / Sadler’s Wells (Londres) / Montpellier Danse
Rosas would like to thank Leen Decin, Cynthia Loemij, Anke Loh, Takeshi Sakai, Jacob Storer, Kees Van Houten
With the support of Tax Shelter du Gouvernement fédéral belge, in collaboration with Casa Kafka Pictures-Belfius.
Rosas is supported by Communauté flamande et de la Fondation BNP Paribas.