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Steve Reich evening: European tour by Rosas

(February 2007)

The Rosas dance company, led by choreographer Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, is touring a Steve Reich Evening around Europe, with 27 performances in Belgium, Netherlands, France, Germany, Spain and Luxembourg. The programme includes Eight Lines and Part I of Drumming, with live performance by the Ictus Ensemble.

For full information please visit the Rosas website.

American composer Steve Reich has always accompanied the path of Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, serving as a beacon, the impulse of contrasting leaps, modeling her never endingly repeated sunrises. This evening is a path that reveals how Reich's transparent logic - based on progressive dephasings - becomes complex and refined over the course of his output (here, from 1967 to 1979), and how the dance of Rosas (from 1981 to today) freely and persistently fights with its own rigorous structures, repetitive or frolicsome, plunging itself into rustling pulsations or inhaling its own breath to breathe in its variations. An essential journey, as De Keersmaeker, like Reich, points to the challenge of the composer, starting from the minimal - a single choreographic phrase - to expanding declinations.

Acclaimed choreographies of Reich's music by Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker have included Come Out, the complete Drumming and Music for Eighteen Musicians (Rain). Dancers from Rosas appeared in Steve Reich 70th birthday events at the Barbican in London and the BAM Next Wave festival in New York last autumn.

Photo: Rosas

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