Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker is a renowned Belgian choreographer and dancer. She was born on June 25, 1960, in Mechelen, Belgium. Keersmaeker is widely recognized for her innovative and influential contributions to contemporary dance.
She studied dance at Mudra School in Brussels, where she delved into various dance techniques, including classical ballet and modern dance. Keersmaeker later continued her studies at the Tisch School of the Arts in New York.
In 1982, she founded the Rosas dance company. Through her choreographic work, Keersmaeker has collaborated with numerous performers, musicians, and visual artists. Her choreography often has a minimalist and repetitive nature, engaging with rhythm and geometry.
One of her most notable works is “Rosas danst Rosas,” which premiered in 1983. This piece became highly influential and gained international recognition, showcasing Keersmaeker’s unique aesthetic and meticulous attention to detail.
Throughout her career, Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker has received numerous awards and honors for her contributions to dance and choreography. Her artistic vision and dedication continue to inspire and shape the contemporary dance landscape.
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Partita 2 stems from a peculiar delight: what happens when two choreographers, famed for directing many bodies, rejoice in their love for their own dancing, which might be a greater urge for them than the choreographing they excel at? A collaboration of equals, to begin with, even if Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker creates a choreographic…
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New York composer Steve Reich’s percussions provide a mesmerizingly rhythmical score for Drumming Live, Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker’s ballet created in 1998 by the Rosas Company, and performed today by the dancers of the Paris Opera Ballet. Like Rain, which entered the Ballet’s repertoire in 2011, Drumming Live is one of the choreographer’s most abstract works…
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In 1983, Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker had her international breakthrough with Rosas danst Rosas, a performance that has since become a benchmark in the history of postmodern dance. Rosas danst Rosas builds on the minimalism initiated in Fase (1982): abstract movements constitute the basis of a layered choreographic structure in which repetition plays the lead…
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During her 1980 stay in New York, in which she first rehearsed her celebrated Violin Phase to the music of Steve Reich, the only other recording playing in Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker’s studio was the Brandenburg Concertos by J.S. Bach. Thirty-five years later, De Keersmaeker continues her work with the piece. “Like no other, Bach’s…
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Each dancer is like a musical instrument with its own sonority and colour. Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker This triptych spans ten years of creation (from 1986 to 1995) and bears witness to Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker’s remarkable dialogues with the great scores of classical music. The term “dialogue” is undoubtedly too tame to describe this almost physical confrontation…
