Rosas

Rosas is the company of the choreographer and dancer Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker. It was founded in 1983 during the creation of the piece Rosas danst Rosas. Since her debut in 1982 with Fase, Four Movements to the Music of Steve Reich, De Keersmaeker has been engaged in a rigorous exploration and articulation of movement, from its simplest forms to its most complex. The relationship between movement and music is essential to De Keersmaeker’s concept of dance. Rosas has expanded the art of dance as an act of writing movements in space and time, and has over the years explored choreography in partnership with other compositional forces, namely music, geometry, the visual arts, and language. De Keersmaeker’s engagement of these disciplines has involved collaborations with experts—musicians, composers, visual artists, actors, writers—who have at different times been integral participants and performers in Rosas productions.

Concurrently with the creation of new pieces, Rosas continues to perform and teach the existing repertoire, which now spans a period of 30 years. In this way the company’s own artistic past continues to be passed on to new generations of dancers and audiences. Ever since De Keersmaeker’s early works began to gain international attention, Rosas has built a strong and vital presence in the dance world, engaging theaters, repertoire companies, opera houses, festivals, workplaces, exhibition spaces, and educational platforms. With the partnership and support of the De Munt/La Monnaie opera house, where Rosas was in residency from 1992 to 2007, and Kaaitheater, Rosas has had a consistent home onstage in Brussels, and has worked with those organizations to foster such projects as P.A.R.T.S., Bal Moderne, and WorkSpaceBrussels. These projects, made possible and propelled with the support of Rosas, have since their inception developed into entirely independent organizations, making space for new in-house projects at Rosas such as Dancingkids and RondOmDans.

The Rosas facilities in Brussels are a center of myriad artistic activities and resources in the performing arts. At present the campus is shared with P.A.R.T.S. and the contemporary music ensemble Ictus, and studios are also made available to WorkSpaceBrussels, the summer residents of Summer Studios, and the numerous companies and artists who come to work here. The site is one of the key places in Brussels where established and emerging performing artists can meet and interact in mutually enriching encounters.


Calendar


Date Group Production Location Organizer
31-05-2023 - 11-06-2023 Rosas EXIT ABOVE – after the tempest / d’après la tempête / naar de storm Brussels (BE) Théâtre National Wallonie-Bruxelles

 

15-06-2023 - 16-06-2023 Rosas EXIT ABOVE – after the tempest / d’après la tempête / naar de storm Wien (AT) Wiener Festwochen

 

21-06-2023 - 22-06-2023 Rosas EXIT ABOVE – after the tempest / d’après la tempête / naar de storm Brugge (BE) Concertgebouw Brugge

 

06-07-2023 - 07-07-2023 Rosas EXIT ABOVE – after the tempest / d’après la tempête / naar de storm Avignon (FR) La FabricA du Festival d’Avignon

 

09-07-2023 - 13-07-2023 Rosas EXIT ABOVE – after the tempest / d’après la tempête / naar de storm Avignon (FR) La FabricA du Festival d’Avignon

 

18-08-2023 - 19-08-2023 Rosas EXIT ABOVE – after the tempest / d’après la tempête / naar de storm Berlin (DE) Tanz im August

 

25-08-2023 - 27-08-2023 Rosas EXIT ABOVE – after the tempest / d’après la tempête / naar de storm Oslo (NO) Dansens Hus – Oslo

 

30-08-2023 - 31-08-2023 Rosas EXIT ABOVE – after the tempest / d’après la tempête / naar de storm Stockholm (SE) Dansens Hus – Stockholm

 

10-09-2023 - 11-09-2023 Rosas EXIT ABOVE – after the tempest / d’après la tempête / naar de storm Roma (It) Auditorium Parco della Musica – Fondazione Musica per Roma

 

14-09-2023 - 16-09-2023 Rosas EXIT ABOVE – after the tempest / d’après la tempête / naar de storm Amsterdam (NL) ITA
20-09-2023 - 22-09-2023 Rosas EXIT ABOVE – after the tempest / d’après la tempête / naar de storm Lyon (FR) Biennale de la Danse de Lyon

 

03-10-2023 - 03-10-2023 Rosas EXIT ABOVE – after the tempest / d’après la tempête / naar de storm Bordeaux (FR) FAB – Festival International des Arts de Bordeaux Métropole

 

08-10-2023 - 08-10-2023 Rosas EXIT ABOVE – after the tempest / d’après la tempête / naar de storm Reggio Emilia (IT) La Fondazione I Teatri di Reggio Emilia

 

12-10-2023 - 13-10-2023 Rosas EXIT ABOVE – after the tempest / d’après la tempête / naar de storm Ludwigshafen (DE) Theater Im Pfalzbau

 

25-10-2023 - 31-10-2023 Rosas EXIT ABOVE – after the tempest / d’après la tempête / naar de storm Paris (FR) Festival D’automne à Paris

 

07-11-2023 - 08-11-2023 Rosas EXIT ABOVE – after the tempest / d’après la tempête / naar de storm Düsseldorf (DE)

Tanzhaus NRW

10-11-2023 - 10-11-2023 Rosas EXIT ABOVE – after the tempest / d’après la tempête / naar de storm Aalst (BE) CC De Werf

 

24-11-2023 - 26-11-2023 Rosas EXIT ABOVE – after the tempest / d’après la tempête / naar de storm Gent (BE) VIERNULVIER

 

29-11-2023 - 02-12-2023 Rosas EXIT ABOVE – after the tempest / d’après la tempête / naar de storm Antwerpen (BE) deSingel