Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker (NYU Tisch alum!) started choreographing in 1980. She founded Rosas in 1983 during the creation of the piece Rosas danst Rosas. In Mitten Wir Im Leben Sind, she collaborates with cellist Jean-Guihen Queyras in an embodied exploration of Bach’s Cello Suites.
Learn more about Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, Rosas, Jean-Guihen Queyras, and Mitten Wir Im Leben Sind – including a behind-the-scenes documentary and book about the rehearsal process and production, and dramaturgical resources:
“Experience without Additives” – an interview with Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker and Jean-Guihen Queyras by Wannes Gyselinck
“Between gravity and levitation” – an interview with Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker and Jean-Guihen Queyras by Jan Vandenhouwe
“A Spiral Between Heaven and Earth” – an Essay by Jan Vandenhouwe
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Recommended readings to accompany the Indefinite Article by Ethan Philbrick.
- Christian Dumais-Lvowski (ed.), Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker: Rosas 2007–2017. Mercatorfonds, 2019.
- Elena Filipovic (ed.), Work/Travail/Arbeid: Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker. Mercatorfonds, 2016.
- Eirini Kartsaki, Repetition in Performance: Returns and Invisible Forces. Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
- Rudi Laermans, Moving Together: Theorizing and Making Contemporary Dance. Antennae, 2015.
- Eric Siblin, The Cello Suites: J. S. Bach, Pablo Casals, and the Search for a Baroque Masterpiece. Grove Press, 2011.
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Review: Mitten wir im Leben sind
It’s a compelling feat of choreography that affirms the perceptive musicality of one of Europe’s pre-eminent contemporary dancemakers.
Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, The Passionate Formalist
“I really like to dance… I like the physical intensity and what it creates as both a physical and mental process. You could call me a workaholic in that way, but it’s also a pleasure.”
A Cellist’s Challenge
Austere, self-absorbed and soft-limbed, the dancers appeared like plain particles guided through space by laws of brilliant complexity, unexceptional humans slouching through a creation of undeserved beauty and perfection.
Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker speaks about Work/Travail/Arbeid at MoMA
“During rehearsal I don’t always sit in front but travel around the space in a circular way, watching and constructing sequences step by step, layer by layer.”
In conversation with Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker
“I take dance seriously…it can embody the most abstract ideas. For me, in order to continue dancing at my age, I have to take dance seriously. It demands a physical discipline.”
Portrait of the Artist
“It’s very challenging to create beauty on a large scale. That goes against the stra-tegies of the mainstream entertainment industry, which is concerned with numbers and transient experiences.”
