Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker / Rosas
| Choreography: | Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker |
| Dancers: | Laura Bachman, Léa Dubois, Anika Edström Kawaji, Zoi Efstathiou, Yuika Hashimoto, Laura Maria Poletti, Soa Ratsifandrihana, Frank Gizycki, Robin Haghi (día 23) / Lav Crnčević (días 24 y 25) y Luka Švajda |
| Music: | Music for 18 Musicians, by Steve Reich |
| Stage design and lighting: | Jan Versweyveld |
| Costume design: | Dries Van Noten |
| Rehearsal director: | Marta Coronado |
| Revision assistants: | Jakub Truszkowski, Marta Coronado, Ursula Robb, Clinton Stringer, Fumiyo Ikeda, Taka Shamoto, Elizaveta Penkova, Igor Shyshko and Cynthia Loemij |
| Coordination and artistic planning: | Anne Van Aerschot |
| Technical director: | Joris Erven |
| Costume coordinators: | Heide V and erieck, Jan Vanhoof |
| Costumes: | Charles Gysele, Christine Picqueray, Maria Eva Rodriguez |
| Cloakroom: | Ella De Vos / Sophia Evgenikos / Emma Zune |
| Technicians: | Pierre Willems, Joris de Bolle y Max Adams |
| 2001 Production: | Rosas & De Munt/La Monnaie (Brussel/Bruxelles) |
| 2016 Co-Production: | De Munt / La Monnaie (Brussels), Sadler’s Wells (London) and Les Théâtres de la Ville in Luxembourg |
| Original premiere: | 10 January 2001 in De Munt / La Monnaie (Bruselas) |
| Rosas is supported by the Flemish Community | |
Rain , inspired by the composition Music For 18 Musicians by Steve Reich, is one of the most characteristic pieces by Belgian creator Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker. With this vibrant choreography which first premiered in 2001 and was later revised in 2016, De Keersmaeker returns to two of her great passions; the purest dance and the minimalist music of Reich. For an hour and ten minutes, ten dancers run, fly and collide on stage, marked by a curtain of fine white ropes, and display an impressive succession of dance pieces. Mathematical structures, the relentlessly geometric use of space and the art of constant variation are all characteristics that have become identifying marks of choreography and are taken to their limits in Rain.
For the choreographer and the dancer, her Rosas company is a compact group of individuals, each and every one of whom collaborate to play a vital role. Seven women and three men who, decked out in the colourful designs of Dries Van Noten, allow themselves to be propelled by a unique energy that gives them identity. Because what most attracts attention in Rain is this form of madness in movement, a dizziness or fire that passes from body to body without ever stopping in a specific dancer, all choreographed in perfect sync with the rhythm of Reich's complex score for which De Keersmaeker has created her own world.
In Rain, the audience is witness to the surrender of ten dancers before this ceaseless collective energy that unites them, an effusive web that shares its energy, its velocity and a strange camaraderie that only appears when the limits of exhaustion are crossed.