"If one thing distinguishes her oeuvre, it’s the rich, intoxicating friction between human architecture and expression," says The New York Times on celebrated Belgian choreographer Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker.
Verklärte Nacht (Transfigured Night) is set to composer Arnold Schönberg's late romantic score based on an 1866 poem by Richard Dehmel about a woman who confesses to the man she loves that she is pregnant with another man's child.
Originally choreographed in 1995 for an ensemble, this 2014 reconstruction is derived from a process of reduction, concentrating the poem’s dramatic structure in an evocative dance for three performers from which the narrative lines and expressive modulations emerge.
Lead support of dance programming at BAC is provided by the Rudolf Nureyev Endowment.
Major support for dance programming and activities provided by the Mertz Gilmore Foundation, Harkness Foundation for Dance, Dance/NYC’s New York City Dance Rehearsal Space Subsidy Program, made possible by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the New York State Council on the Arts.
Rosas is supported by the Flemish Community and by the BNP Paribas Foundation.
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Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker / Rosas – Verklärte nacht – New York
Transfigured Night
Passionate Whirlwind
Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker
IMPRESSIONS: Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker/Rosas "Verklärte Nacht" at Baryshnikov Arts Center
Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker
In 1980, after studying dance at Mudra School in Brussels and Tisch School of the Arts in New York, Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker (b. 1960) created Asch, her first choreographic work. Two years later came the premiere of Fase, Four Movements to the Music of Steve Reich.
Anne Van Aerschot, Hugo Glendinning