Rosas: Vortex Temporum

By Ivan Talijancic, 17 October 2016

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“the performers’ and the music ensemble’s presence is inextricable”

Reviewed at BAM: Howard Gilman Opera House, New York City on 14 October 2016

Vortex Temporum (Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker)

Rosas

Ensemble Ictus

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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Ivan Talijancic

Ivan Talijancic is a director, choreographer, performer, writer, producer, visual designer, video- and film-maker. He is the co-founder and artistic co-director of WaxFactory, a New York-based international multidisciplinary performance group, with whom he toured worldwide.

Vortex Temporum: Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker's Rosas and Ictus ensemble at the Brooklyn Academy of Music