Returning from New York in 1982, Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker created Fase, four movements to the music of Steve Reich, which she danced in a duet with Michele Anne De Mey. The piece launches an unquenchable quest for a new harmony between dance and music, the two passions of the Flemish choreographer. The synchronicity between body movements and musical pulsations, of a seductive subtlety, make visible the slightest nuance of their dialogue.

Her three next shows, Rosas danst Rosas (1983), Elena’s Aria (1984) and Bartók/Mikrokosmos (1987), stabilised the main strengths of her art.

‘‘These four pieces were a way for me to learn to write the dance,” Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker explains. “They share the same search for a formal language where the structure generates the emotion.”

Evening after evening, her first four works take us back to those founding moments of one of contemporary dance’s greatest personalities – all the more fabulous to see the choreographer return as the interpreter of her work.

In the context of Early Works, you will also discover 3 other shows by Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker:

ROSAS DANST ROSAS (19, 20 march)
BARTOK / MIKROKOSMOS (22 march)
AND ELENA’S ARIA (24 march)

PASS EARLY WORKS 15% reduction on 3 Early Works performances

Danced by Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, Tale Dolven.
Music Steve Reich (Piano Phase, Come Out, Violin Phase, Clapping Music).

WE 13 MARCH AT 6 PM
D’ORIENT
Saed Haddad : new piece for quartett
Béla Bartók : Quartett n° 4 in C major
with Ictus Quartet
This concert is part of the Wednesday Concerts series

SA 16 MARCH AT 9:45 PM
AN ENCOUNTER
with the artists following the performance. Free admission.

CATERING AND BAR AT THE ROTONDE
from 6.30  (entrance by the Ticket Office, rue Léon Trulin) and at the end of the performance.

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SA 16 MARCH AT 5:30 PM
THE EARLY WORKS AESTHETIC
by Philippe Guisgand.

SA 23 MARCH AT 5:30 PM
DISCUSSION BETWEEN MUSIC AND DANCE
by Philippe Guisgand and Jean-Luc Plouvier (Ictus)

Two discussions organised in collaboration with Master Musique et danse de Lille 3.
Free amission. Booking start from February 12.
T 0820 48 9000 / billetterie@opera-lille.fr.