De Keersmaeker’s Fase without De Keersmaeker

By Graham Watts, 21 March 2022

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“an invisible noose binds the choreography tightly to the music”

Reviewed at Royal Opera House: Linbury Theatre, London on 17 March 2022

Fase, Four Movements to the Music of Steve Reich (Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker)

Martine André, Costume Designer

Remon Fromot, Lighting Designer

Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, Costume Designer

Laura Bachman, Dancer

Soa Ratsifandrihana, Dancer

Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker's Exit Above: just walking the blues away

Graham Watts, 12th November

The impressive music, especially in the live singing of Mees, is well worth the sometimes bewildering array of simultaneous activity, the confusions of intent and the occasional periods of inactivity.

***11

Transcendental Goldbergs from De Keersmaeker and Kolesnikov

Graham Watts, 6th September

De Keersmaeker’s career-long exploration of the interrelationship between music and movement continues at Sadler's Wells with pianist Pavel Kolesnikov.

****1

Fase opens the discussions on dance heritage in Berlin

Katja Vaghi, 24th August

Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker’s epically physical dance Fase, Four Movements to the Music of Steve Reich, opened the month-long event series What the Body Remembers.

*****

A translation of Bach's music into movement

Sarah Kirkup, 24th April

Bach6Cellosuiten: De Keersmaeker and Jean-Guihen Queyras join forces for UK premiere at Sadler’s Wells.

****1

Rosas offers a study in elation, elegance and exaltation

Rebecca Galloway, 29th January

Famed Belgian company Rosas is back in Montreal with another revamped work from the repertoire, A Love Supreme.

****1

Irreverence and ennui in De Keersmaeker's Six Brandenburg Concertos

Ivan Talijancic, 7th October

Anna Teresa De Keersmaeker's production of Six Brandenburg Concertos at the Park Avenue Armory in New York City disappoints

**111

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Graham Watts

Graham Watts is a freelance dance writer and critic writing regularly for Dancing Times, Dance Europe, Danza Europa, and many more publications. He regularly writes features for Sadler’s Wells, London Coliseum and La Scala. Chairman of the Dance Section of the Critics’ Circle in the United Kingdom and of the UK National Dance Awards he has interviewed many of the greatest names in dance including Maya Plisetskaya, Vladimir Vasiliev, Boris Eifman, Alexei Ratmansky, Andris Liepa, Sir Peter Wright, David Bintley and Dame Gillian Lynne. When not involved in dance Graham is a keen fencer, and has captained the British Sabre team.

De Keersmaeker’s Fase without De Keersmaeker at the Dance Reflections Festival