Rosas: Bach6Cellosuiten

By Katja Vaghi, 11 December 2017

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“It has something Berlinerish about it: it's is a little raw but at the same time very sleek”

Reviewed at Hebbel am Ufer: HAU1, Berlin on 9 December 2017

Mitten wir im Leben sind/ Bach6Cellosuiten (Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker)

Rosas

Jean-Guihen Queyras, Cello

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

De Keersmaeker’s Fase without De Keersmaeker

Graham Watts, 17th March

The successful return of De Keersmaeker's early minimalist masterpiece, Fase, Four Movements to the Music of Steve Reich in the Linbury Theatre.

****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

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Katja Vaghi

With a background in Dance Studies, Literature and Linguistics (MA English Studies from Zurich University and PhD in dance philosophy from the University of Roehampton in London) and a formation as a modern dancer (Ballet Arts, NYC), Katja is a freelance dancer, choreographer, dance researcher and dramaturge currently living in Berlin.

De Keersmaeker, Queyras & Rosas in Mitten wir im Leben sind / Bach6Cellosuiten at HAU 1