Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, born in Mechelen, Belgium, in 1960, studied at the “Mudra” school in Brussels from 1978 to 1980. In 1980 she signed her first choreography in Brussels: “Asch”. In 1981 she studied at the “School of Arts” of New York University. In 1982 she created “Fase, four movements on the music of Steve Reich”. In 1983 she founded the Rosas dance company and created “Rosas danst Rosas”, a show that she toured to various international festivals. In 1984 she created “Elena’s Aria”. The Rosas company has performed several times in Belgium, Holland, Switzerland, Italy, Spain, France, Austria, Germany, Israel and Canada. In May 1986 Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker created “Bartók/Aantekeningen”, presented in Rovereto as a ‘premiere’ for Italy. The show is a Schaamte production, in collaboration with the Holland Festival and the Festival d’Eté de Seine-Martime (France).
Bartók/Aantekeningen, or: notes on Béla Bartók’s Quartet No. 4 (1928). “This music,” says the choreographer, “determines the structural and emotional plot of the show. Composed of five movements, ordered according to a rigorously symmetrical principle, it develops a language that is generous in its contrasts, but always violently dissonant. Around the “five movements” that form Bartók’s quartet and respecting their concentric symmetry, materials of a different nature are intertwined (sequences of movements, texts, images, actions).
A series of precise feelings are defined: dissonance, laceration, the desire to overcome this laceration…”.
