Creation 2025 (working title)

Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, Solal Mariotte / Rosas

In 2025, Rosas presents a new work choreographed to the chansons of Jacques Brel. Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker will create and dance a duet with dancer and upcoming choreographer Solal Mariotte. After graduating from P.A.R.T.S. in 2022, Mariotte, who also has a background in hip hop, joined Rosas in 2023 for EXIT ABOVE. The choreography of Creation 2025 is inspired by the melodies, moods and narrativity of the chanson genre, and by the expressivity and gestural physicality of Brel’s iconic performances.

In 2002, De Keersmaeker created her second dance solo, Once, to the music of Joan Baez. Playing the entire LP Joan Baez in Concert, part 2, the choreographer set out to examine various possible answers – in movement, voice, and
gesture – to the emotions and power embodied by Baez’ music and lyrics, which also inspired the civil rights movement in the United States in the 1960s.

In Creation 2025, De Keersmaeker and Mariotte, who share the stage for the first time, will continue this trajectory, and further explore the potential and challenges of choreographing to songs.