Bartók / Beethoven / Schönberg - Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker

Three milestones from the oeuvre of Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker Bartók/ Beethoven/ Schönberg brings together three early choreographies by Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker that were originally created by her company Rosas on major works by Béla Bartók, Ludwig van Beethoven and Arnold Schönberg. On Bartók's fourth string quartet, De Keersmaeker created a choreography with playful and combative accents that draws out the danceability from the complex and layered rhythms and harmonies. In Grosse Fuge (1992), the dancers defy gravity in a 'masculine' dance vocabulary. The starting point of this ensemble work is Beethoven's ingenious intertwining of simultaneously running melodic lines. Verklärte Nacht (1995) is an unabashed romantic love story in which the contrasting feelings of a man and a woman are dissected, written to Schönberg's music of the same name. The dancers of Opera Ballet Vlaanderen bring the large-scale versions of these choreographies, accompanied live by the house string players.