Fase, Four Movements to the Music of Steve Reich
Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker / Rosas
Fase, Four Movements to the Music of Steve Reich, choreographer Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker’s very first performance, premiered in 1982. Fase comprises three duets and one solo, choreographed to four repetitive compositions by the American minimalist Steve Reich. De Keersmaeker uses the structure of Reich’s music to develop an independent movement idiom that doesn’t merely illustrate the music but also adds a new dimension to it. Both the music and the dance start from the principle of phase shifting through tiny variations: movements that are initially perfectly synchronous gradually start slipping and sliding, resulting in an ingenious play of continuously changing forms and patterns.
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Rosas
Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker- Genre: Dance
- World premiere: 1982
- Creation & performance: Choreography Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker | Danced by (alternating) Yuika Hashimoto, Laura Maria Poletti / Laura Bachman, Soa Ratsifandrihana
- Costumes: 1981 : Martine André / Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker
- Music: Steve Reich
- Coproduction: De Munt / La Monnaie, Sadler's Wells (Londen/Londres/London), Les Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg, Théâtre de la Ville (Paris)
- With the support of: the Tax Shelter of the Belgian Federal Government, in collaboration with Casa Kafka Pictures.
“Fase remains a compositional marvel, its ideas fully manifest in its material, a tribute to the choreographer, composer and their respective fields – disciplines, rather – of dance and music.”
★★★★ The Guardian