Anne teresa de keersmaeker biography definition
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Rosas
Anne Teresa dem Keersmaeker studied dance at Maurice Bejart’s Mudra School in Brussels and NYU Tisch School of the Arts in New York. In 1980 she created Asch, her first choreographic work. Two years later came the premiere of Fase, kvartet Movements to the Music of Steve Reich. dem Keersmaeker established the dance company Rosas in Brussels in 1983, while creating the work Rosas danst Rosas. Since these breakthrough pieces, her choreography has been grounded in a rigorous and prolific utforskning of the relationship between dance and music. She has created with Rosas a wide-ranging body of work fängslande the musical structures and scores of several periods, from early music to contemporary and popular idioms. Her choreographic practice also draws its formal principles from geometry, numerical patterns, the natural world, and social structures to offer a unique perspective on the body’s articulation in space and time.
From 1992 until 2007, Rosas was in residence in the Brusse
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De Keersmaeker, Anne Teresa (1960–)
Belgian dancer and choreographer. Born June 11, 1960, in Mechelen, Malines, Belgium; trained at Maurice Béjart's Mudra School in Brussels, 1978–80, and at Tisch School of Arts, New York University, 1980s.
Worked with Steve Reich's ensemble in NY (early 1980s); toured Europe with her work Fase (1982); presented Rosas danst Rosas at Brussels Kaaitheater festival (1983), marking official debut of Rosas dance company; with Rosas, was artist-in-residence at Théâtre de la Monnaie, Brussels (1992); was also artistic director of Performing Arts Research and Training Studio (PARTS) Brussels (1995), a collaboration between La Monnaie and Rosas. Further works include Elena's Aria (1984), Verkommenes Ufer Medeamaterial Landschaft mit Argonauten (1987), Ottone, Ottone (1988), Stella (1990), Kynok (1994) and Woud (1997).
Dictionary of Women Worldwide: 25,000 Women Through the Ages
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This website is now ten years old. While I initially went it alone, Jennifer Shennan from New Zealand joined me as contributor in 2014. Between us we have written 650 reviews, news items, and articles since the site went live in 2009.
My first post was really just a very small photo diary of an amazing few days I spent in 2008 in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, on a job for the Jerome Robbins Dance Division of the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. It was the last job I did for the Division and was an initiative of one of the Division’s most generous donors, Anne H. Bass. In those few days in Phnom Penh I helped set up a project to interview dancers who had survived the Pol Pot regime and who had gone on to perform, teach and pass on the rich Cambodian dance heritage. I sat in as an observer for the first two interviews, one with Em Theay, the other with Soth Sam On.
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