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Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker
Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker (b. 1960) founded her dance company, Rosas, in 1983. Her work is grounded on a rigorous exploration of the relationship between dance and music, and over the years she has engaged the musical structures and scores of different periods and genres, from early music to contemporary expressions of classical and popular music. Her choreographic practice draws from geometric principles, nature, and social structures to offer unique perspectives on the articulation of the body in space and time. The minimalism of De Keersmaeker's earliest pieces gave way over the years to ingenious constructions for large ensembles. Then in 2007, the choreography underwent a fundamental c...
Drumming & Rain
A conversation in which Belgian choreographer Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker offers the performance theorist and musicologist Bojana Cvejić wide-ranging insights into choreography, and into the making of 'Drumming' and 'Rain', two landmark works created to the music of minimalist composer Steve Reich.
Drumming
In 1998, Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker returned to two of her greatest childhood loves: pure dance and music by minimalist composer Steve Reich. Rich in twenty years of an abundant choreographic journey, she takes hold of Reich's 'Drumming', a long hypnotic work written for a large percussion ensemble, and gives rise to a feverish and radical show in which the essence seems to have distilled of his style: mathematical patterns, the art of perpetual variation, geometric use of space. 'Drumming' fuses structural refinement, technical virtuosity, the pleasure of dance in its raw state. The energy of kinetic language, costumes by Dries Van Noten and scenography by Jan Versweyveld contribute to extraordinary visual compositions. 'Drumming' has since been taken on stages around the world. The tours were followed by photographers Herman Sorgeloos and Anne Van Aerschot, who today open their extensive photographic archive and offer us a kaleidoscopic glimpse of this iconic spectacle.
A Choreographer's Score
Overzicht van het werk van de Vlaamse choreografe (1960-).
The Twentieth Century Performance Reader
The Twentieth-Century Performance Reader has been the key introductory text to all types of performance for over fifteen years. Extracts from over fifty practitioners, critics and theorists from the fields of dance, drama, music, theatre and live art form an essential sourcebook for students, researchers and practitioners. This carefully revised third edition offers focus on contributions from the world of music, and also privileges the voices of practitioners themselves ahead of more theoretical writing. A bestseller since its original publication in 1996, this new edition has been expanded to include contributions from: Bobby Baker; Joseph Beuys; Rustom Bharucha; Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker...
The Routledge Dance Studies Reader
The Routledge Dance Studies Reader has been expanded and updated, giving readers access to thirty-seven essential texts that address the social, political, cultural, and economic impact of globalization on embodiment and choreography. These interdisciplinary essays in dance scholarship consider a broad range of dance forms in relation to historical, ethnographic, and interdisciplinary research methods including cultural studies, reconstruction, media studies, and popular culture. This new third edition expands both its geographic and cultural focus to include recent research on dance from Southeast Asia, the People’s Republic of China, indigenous dance, and new sections on market forces an...
Moving Together
Moving Together examines contemporary dance from both a theoretical and a practical perspective, with interactions between the two. The author analyses three important tendencies in contemporary dance: "pure" dance, dance theatre, and (self-) reflexive dance. He proposes a theoretical, conceptual framework, and through extensive dialogues with choreographers he investigates how artistic cooperation results in dance. "Clearly written, meticulously researched and theoretically enriching, Rudi Laermans' first-hand accounts of key performances by some of the most influential names that have defined contemporary choreography since the mid-1980s make us see how crucial the Flemish dance scene has ...
Spacescapes
Dance and drawing are intimately linked to the gesture that performs them. The dancing body creates a figure in space and leaves an impact on site, while the action of the artist sets a point into motion and captures an ephemeral event, which is then reproduced in graphic or visual form.Throughout the 20th century, the performing and visual arts have converged on many occasions. As artists investigated the embodied and energetic value of form, dancers and choreographers experimented with the interfaces between sign and action, between annotation and improvisation, between a spatial sense of self and an architectural configuration of movement.The hybridization of dance and drawing speeded up ...
Conversations
A surprising, enlightening series of conversations that shed new light on the music and career of “our greatest living composer” (New York Times) Steve Reich is a living legend in the world of contemporary classical music. As a leader of the minimalist movement in the 1960s, his works have become central to the musical landscape worldwide, influencing generations of younger musicians, choreographers and visual artists. He has explored non-Western music and American vernacular music from jazz to rock, as well as groundbreaking music and video pieces. He toured the world with his own ensemble and his compositions are performed internationally by major orchestras and ensembles. Now Reich sp...
