Among the most significant figures in contemporary European dance, Belgian choreographer Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker has consistently explored the relationship between music and dance in her extensive body of work. For her, "dancing to the music" means understanding the principles of a musical score's organization with each creation, studying its structure until it contaminates the choreography. From Bach to Schönberg, Bartók to Monteverdi, to collaborations with Steve Reich, Joan Baez, and Thierry De Mey, and her latest work inspired by Miles Davis' double album Bitches Brew (the birth of jazz-rock), De Keersmaeker conceives music as the starting point for discovering her own choreographic universe.
