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Anne Teresa
De Keersmaeker
/ Rosas

September 2017 – May 2018
GRAND THÉÂTRE
MUDAM
PHILHARMONIE

EN With red bridge project, three of Luxembourg’s major cultural institutions launch an innovative joint project building bridges, both geographically and artistically, between music, dance and the visual arts. At the heart of the project for the 2017/18 season is an artist who has been blending different art forms for decades: Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker. The Belgian choreographer, who has a longstanding relationship with Luxembourg, is one of the greats in her field who, with her Rosas company, has revolutionised contemporary dance. red bridge project comprises six major productions offering a unique opportunity to discover the full scope of her creative work.

Verklärte Nacht
2014

Part 3 of Fase, Four Movements to the Music of Steve Reich (1982)

Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker Choreography
Rosas Dance
Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg
Alain Franco Conductor, musical dramaturgy
Georges-Elie Octors Musical dramaturgy
Luc Schaltin Lighting design
Rosas, Rudy Sabounghi Costumes

Arnold Schönberg: Verklärte Nacht
(La Nuit transfigurée)
Production Rosas and Philharmonie Luxembourg

Coproduction Ruhrtriennale and Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg

EN Verklärte Nacht (Transfigured Night) is based on Schoenberg’s late romantic music for strings and a poem by Richard Dehmel about a woman who, on a moonlit night in a forest, confesses to the man she loves that she is pregnant with someone else’s child. Expressive crescendos and diminuendos guide us through dramatic events, echoing an ever-modulating stream of emotions. For the first time, this 2014 version of Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker’s interpretation of Schoenberg´s shamelessly romantic love story is presented with live orchestra.

7:15pm
Lecture series:
The Artistic Universe of
Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker
Part II
02
March
2018
8pm
PHILHARMONIE

Fee:
10 €, 15 €, 25 €
(< 27: 6 €, 9 €, 15 €) > TICKETS <
Des canyons aux étoiles

Ensemble intercontemporain
Ensemble of the Lucerne Festival Alumni
Matthias Pintscher Conductor
Jean-François Zygel Presenter, piano (first part)
Hidéki Nagano Piano
Jean-Christophe Vervoitte Horn
Samuel Favre Xylorimba
Ann Veronica Janssens Visual art

Olivier Messiaen: Des canyons aux étoiles

With the support of Swiss Re – partner of the Lucerne Festival Alumni

EN Olivier Messiaen’s imposing hymn of praise to the Earth, from its ravines to the stars above, is a work of sweeping beauty and transcendence. To start the evening, Jean-François Zygel introduces Des canyons aux étoiles, together with the Ensemble intercontemporain. The work is then performed in its entirety with a visual interpretation by Ann Veronica Janssens, an artist in light with whom Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker has regularly collaborated.

7pm
Première partie :
concert commenté (en français)

8:15pm
Deuxième partie :
œuvre intégrale

21
March
2018
7pm
PHILHARMONIE

Fee:
25 € (< 27: 15 €) > TICKETS <
Achterland
1990

Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker Choreography
Rosas Dance
Wilhem Latchoumia / Joonas Ahonen Piano
Juan María Braceras / Naaman Sluchin Piano
Jean-Christophe Vervoitte Violin
Herman Sorgeloos Stage design
Jean-Luc Ducourt Lighting
Ann Weckx Costumes

Music by György Ligeti & Eugène Ysaÿe

Coproduction De Munt/La Monnaie and Concertgebouw Brugge

EN Achterland is a seminal choreography in Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker’s highly individual body of work. It was for this 1990 production that she first wrote specific dance material for men, adding three male dancers to her then predominantly female company. The dominant femininity and minimalism of several earlier Rosas pieces give way to an ambiguous no man’s land, playfully blurring boundaries and signs with dancers performing around a violinist and a pianist in the centre of the stage.

7:15pm
Lecture series: The Artistic Universe of Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker Part III
21
March
2018
7pm
Grand Théâtre

Fee:
25 € (< 27: 15 €) > TICKETS <
Work/
Travail/
Arbeid
2015

Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker Concept & choreography
Rosas Dance
Ictus Musicians
Georges-Elie Octors Music director
Elena Filipovic Curator
Ann Veronica Janssens Artistic consultant
Bojana Cvejić Dramaturgy
Femke Gyselinck Artistic assistant
Anne-Catherine Kunz Costumes

Gérard Grisey: Vortex Temporum

Work/Travail/Arbeid was initiated by Wiels Contemporary Art Centre and Rosas and has been made possible with the support of De Munt/La Monnaie, Bozar Centre For Fine Arts, Kaaitheater, Kunstenfestivaldesarts, Ictus, BNP Paribas Fortis, Fondation BNP Paribas, Wiels Patrons, and Rolex Institute.

 EN What would it mean for a choreography to be performed as an exhibition? In 2015, Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker reimagined her piece Vortex Temporum, created in response to the polyphony of the eponymous masterpiece of Gérard Grisey, for the radically different temporal, spatial, and perceptual conditions of a museum environment. red bridge project presents Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker’s epoch-making work Work/Travail/Arbeid, previously shown at Wiels, Tate Modern, Centre Pompidou, MoMA, for two days at Mudam.

15.04 - 4:00pm
Lecture by Elena Filipociv (E)

Free entry
Continuously accessible
14 & 15
April
2018
2pm-7pm
MUDAM

Free entry
Mitten wir im
Leben sind /
Bach 6 Cellosuiten
2017

Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker Concept & choreography
Jean-Guihen Queyras Cello
Created with and danced by:
Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker,
Marie Goudot, Michaël Pomero,
Julien Monty, Boštjan Antončić
An D’Huys Costumes
Luc Schaltin: Lighting design

Music by Johann Sebastian Bach & György Kurtág

Coproduction De Munt/La Monnaie, Ruhrtriennale, Concertgebouw Brugge, Le Théâtre de la Ville avec le Festival d’Automne à Paris, Sadler’s Wells, Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg, Opéra de Lille, Ludwigsburger Schlossfestspiele, Elbphilharmonie et Montpellier Danse 2018

EN This project pays tribute to Johann Sebastian Bach’s Cello Suites that are performed in their entirety by world-renowned cellist Jean-Guihen Queyras. The collaboration between Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker and Jean-Guihen Queyras was born out of a shared interest in musical analysis as a starting point for their interpretations. In this new production, Bach’s score is illuminated by a choreography for three male and two female dancers, including Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker herself. Both the individual character of the six suites and their interconnections emerge from this riveting symbiosis of music and dance.

04.05 - 7:15pm
Lecture by Philippe Guisgand (F)
04 & 05
May
2018
8pm
Grand Théâtre

Fee:
20 € / Jeunes (< 26): 8 € > TICKETS <
04/05/2018
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05/05/2018
Violin Phase
1982

Part 3 of Fase, Four Movements to the Music of Steve Reich (1982)

Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker Dance, choreography
Shem Guibbory Recorded violin

Steve Reich: Violin Phase

 EN red bridge project kicks off in Mudam’s Great Hall where Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker herself performs Violin Phase, one of the four parts of Fase, Four movements to the Music of Steve Reich, her very first choreography from 1982. The choreographer uses the repetitive structure of the music of Steve Reich, a pioneer of American minimalist music, to develop an independent movement idiom that does not merely illustrate the music but adds a new dimension to it.

17
September
2017
11am & 3pm
MUDAM

Fee:
Free > TICKETS <
Workshops
Achterland
workshop series
with Fumiyo Ikeda

 1. Open workshop (F / E)
Wednesday 14.02. (14:00–17:00),
Thursday 15.02. (10:00–13:00) &
Friday 16.02. (10:00–13:00)
at the Grand Théâtre

2. Professional workshop (F / E)
Monday 26.03. (14:00–17:00),
Tuesday 27.03. (10:00–13:00) &
Wednesday 28.03. (10:00–13:00)
at the Grand Théâtre

Achterland (1990) is an exploration of the relationship between music and the body with ve women, three men and two musicians. The piece is based on Études for solo piano by György Ligeti and Sonatas 1, 3 & 4 for solo violin by Eugène Ysaÿe.

In this three-day workshop, Fumiyo Ikeda will start with an easy warm up and teach a part of the basic material to give the partici- pants an impression of the di erent dynamics, layers and details of Achterland. In the course of the three days, Ikeda will explain and analyze the choreography to o er a deeper understanding and a more profound experience of the performance.

The workshops are free. Please register at mameier@vdl.lu. Participants for the open workshops need to be at least 15 years old. The workshops will be held in English & French.

Work / Travail / Arbeid

 Workshop (F / D / E / L)
Saturday 14.04. (15:00–16:00) &
Sunday 15.04. (15:00–16:00)
at MUDAM

Dance workshop with Rosas for everyone from 6 years and up (< 12 years in company of an adult). No participation fee, booking on the spot, limited places. No experience required!

Mitten wir im Leben sind /
Bach 6 Cellosuiten
workshop series
with Femke Gyselinck

 1. Open workshop (F / E)
Saturday 05.05. (10:00-12:00)
at the Grand Théâtre

2. Professional workshop (F / E)
Friday 04.05. (10:00-12:00)
at the Grand Théâtre

During the first half of this workshop, Femke Gyselinck will explain the principles that guided the creation of Mitten wir im Leben sind / Bach 6 Cellosuiten. These principles will be used to develop a personal choreographic vocabulary. In the second half, Femke Gyselinck will teach a phrase from the original choreography that the partici- pants can transform into their own version.

The workshops are free. Please register at mameier@vdl.lu. Participants for the open workshops need to be at least 15 years old. The workshops will be held in English & French.

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