Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker
Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker ( born 1960 in Mechelen) is a Belgian choreographer, ballet master and principal dancer.
Life
De Keersmaeker grew up in Flanders in Wemmel. Maurice Béjart's Mudra She attended the Brussels dance school from 1978 to 1980. In 1981 she studied at the Tisch School of the Arts in New York.
Their first production, Asch, she presented in 1980 in Brussels. After her return from the United States followed in 1982 the choreography chamfer. In 1983 she founded her own dance company, Rosas. With the choreography for her troupe, Rosas Rosas danst, her international breakthrough. The Kaaitheater in Brussels offered her in the 1980s, a venue for their work.
1992 De Keersmaeker's company Rosas was included as a permanent company at Brussels' Théâtre Royal de La Monnaie / Koninklijke Muntschouwburg.
In 1995, De Keersmaeker and the Royal de la Monnaie Théatre the international school of modern dance PARTS ( Performing Arts Research and Training Center ), which should fill the gap left by the removal of Béjart's Mudra École to Lausanne. The productions of the company Rosas are regularly invited to international theater and dance festivals around the world.
De Keersmaeker received in 1995 an honorary doctorate from the Free University of Brussels awarded. She is also a winner of the French award Officier de l' Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.
Awards
Works (selection)
- Asch (1980 )
- Fase (1982 ), Music Steve Reich
- Rosas Rosas danst (1983 ), music by Thierry De Mey and Peter Vermeersch
- Elena 's Aria (1984 )
- Bartók / Aantekeningen (1986 )
- Depraved Waterfront / Medeamaterial - Landscape with Argonauts ( Heiner Müller) (1987 )
- Microcosm Monument Self-portrait with Reich and Riley ( and Chopin is attending ) / In gentle flowing movement - Quatuor No. 4 (1987 )
- Ottone, Ottone (1988 )
- Stella ( 1990)
- Achterland (1990 )
- ERTS (1992 )
- Rosa ( 1992) dance film to music by Bela Bartok, directed by Peter Greenaway
- Mozart Concert Arias, un moto di gioia (1992 ), in collaboration with the Orchestre des Champs Elysées, Philippe Herreweghe conducting
- Toccata (1993 )
- Kinok (1994 ), in collaboration with Thierry De Mey and the Ictus Ensemble
- Amor Constante más allá de la muerte (1994 ), in collaboration with Thierry De Mey and the Ictus Ensemble
- Transfigured Night (1995 )
- Woud (1996 ), Music Mountain, Schoenberg and Wagner
- 3 solos for Vincent Dunoyer (1997 ), along with Steve Paxton and The Wooster Group
- Just Before (1997), the live performance of the Ictus Ensemble, Music Magnus Lindberg, John Cage, Yannis Xenakis, Steve Reich, Pierre Bartholomée and Thierry De Mey
- King Bluebeard's Castle Opera House ( Bela Bartok ) ( 1998) debut as an opera director at the Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie
- Drumming (1998 ), Music Steve Reich
- The Lisbon Piece (1989 ), Gastchoreografie for the Portuguese Companhia Nacional de Bailado
- Quartet (1999), dance theater performance by Heiner Müller
- With / for / by (1999 ) Part choreography and duet with Elizabeth Corbett
- I said I ( 1999), together with Jolente De Keersmaeker (director), music Ictus Ensemble, Aka Moon and DJ Grazzhoppa
- In Real Time (2000)
- Rain ( 2001), Steve Reich Music
- 3Abschied (2010), together with Jérôme Bel