ROSAS / Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker

In her most recent two part creation ›Raga for the Rainy Season‹ / ›A Love Supreme‹ Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker brings together far eastern and modern African-western sounds. Mysticism, sensuality, meditation and improvisation are the determining factors for ›Raga for the Rainy Season‹, variations for 9 dancers set to the Indian Mian Malhar raga. ›A Love Supreme‹ is a quartet in which two men and two women interweave improvised and composed material to the same named legendary music by John Coltrane. It is no coincidence that the contrast between the ›Raga for the Rainy Season‹ and ›A Love Supreme‹ is the contrast between the horizontal and vertical, the female and the male voice, the monophonic and polyphonic. These balancing opposites have always been the underlying motivation behind De Keersmaeker's creative drive.

Premiere 24.05.2005, KunstenFESTIVALdesArts, les Halles de Schaerbeek

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›Raga for the Rainy Season‹

Choreography: Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker

Dance vocabulary: Salva Sanchis & Rosas

Music: Raga Mian Malhar (Voice: Sulochana Brahaspati, Sarangi: Sultan Khan,

Tabla: Zakir Hussain, Tampuras: Amod Vardhan - Usha Sastri)

Dance: Marta Coronado, Tale Dolven, Fumiyo Ikeda, Kaya Kolodziejczyk, Elizaveta Penkóva, Zsuzsa Rozsavälgyi, Taka Shamoto, Clinton Stringer, Giulia Sugranyes

›A love supreme‹
Choreography: Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker & Salva Sanchis

Music: A Love Supreme by John Coltrane (Tenor Saxophone, Voice: John Coltrane, Piano: McCoy Tyner, Bass: Jimmy Garrison, Percussion: Elvin Jones) - "Acknowledgement, Resolution, Pursuance & Psalm" (© Coltrane, J.) ,© Jowcol Music, Inc. (Universal Music Publ. N.V.)

Dance :Cynthia Loemij, Moya Michael, Salva Sanchis, Igor Shyshko

Set & lighting: Jan Versweyveld

Assistance Set & lighting: Christophe Ragg, Daan Verhaeghe

Costume design: Dries Van Noten

Assistance Costume design: Aouatif Boulaich, Anne-Catherine Kunz

Production: Rosas & De Munt / La Monnaie,

Co-production: Théâtre de la Ville Paris, Opéra de Rouen / Haute Normandie, Teatro Comunale di Ferrara

Photo © Herman Sorgeloos