A dancer spirals the upper body, moving with a surrendering chest, while a pianist plays behind him.

Zeitigung

Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, Louis Nam Le Van Ho, Alain Franco/Rosas

Almost ten years after Zeitung, Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker and the musician Alain Franco started off with those same building blocks to create Zeitigung. Against the backdrop of a changing world, and channeled through the bodies of eight young dancers, Franco and De Keersmaeker offer an updated version of their own earlier work. As a part of their strategy they invited the young choreographer and dancer Louis Nam Le Van Ho to confront his own writing with De Keersmaeker’s choreography; his contribution builds a bridge to a new generation of creators and choreographers, providing a different perspective on De Keersmaeker’s and Franco’s ongoing examination of the essence of dance and composition. Franco joins Rosas’s dancers on stage, performing the piece live on the piano. In a broad historical gesture, the music of Johann Sebastian Bach, Johannes Brahms, Arnold Schönberg, and Anton Webern stretches across the geometric principles and improvised sections of the choreography.

Credits

Concept
Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, Alain Franco, Louis Nam Le Van Ho
Choreography
Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, Louis Nam Le Van Ho
Piano
Alain Franco
Music
Johann Sebastian Bach, Johannes Brahms, Anton Webern, Arnold Schönberg
Created with and danced by
Lav Crnčević, José Paulo dos Santos, Bilal El Had, Frank Gizycki, Robin Haghi, Louis Nam Le Van Ho, Luka Švajda, Thomas Vantuycom
Lighting design
Luc Schaltin, Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker
Costumes
Anne-Catherine Kunz
Production
Rosas
Co-production
De Munt/La Monnaie
With the support of
The Tax Shelter of the Belgian Federal Government, in collaboration with Casa Kafka Pictures Tax Shelter empowered by Belfius

Images

  • A group of dancers in different-colored costumes adopt varied postures.
    © Anne Van Aerschot
  • A dancer supports another in a careful balance, backs touching, while the dancer on top maintains a rigid posture.
    © Anne Van Aerschot
  • Three dancers are suspended mid-air, about to land from a unison jump, arms lifted to chest height, while a pianist watches from the back corner of the stage.
    © Anne Van Aerschot