Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker / Rosas – GLA55

With GLA55 Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker returns to radical minimalism, this time based on early compositions by Philip Glass. Six dancers from Rosas explore circular and spiral movements for 55 minutes in an intense choreography. Two women. Four movements. That was all Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker needed to create Fase. With that groundbreaking choreography on the early works of Steve Reich, she redefined the foundations of contemporary dance in 1982. More than 40 years later, De Keersmaeker reaches for early works again - this time by Philip Glass. His compositions from the 1960s, such as Music in Contrary Motion and Music in Fifths, are just as radically minimalist as the work of the young Reich. The new production GLA55 is built around ten circular and spiral-shaped movements with which De Keersmaeker explores the boundaries of endurance. For 55 minutes six dancers cross the stage. With GLA55 De Keersmaeker does what she has excelled at throughout her entire career: explore abstract minimalist material to the extreme.