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Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker creates a dance show for the Louvre-Lens

2021-06-10T14:26:05.462Z


Called Dark Red, the choreography will bring together the thirteen dancers of the Brussels-based company Rosas, who will perform between June 11 and 27.


Belgian choreographer Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker put on a show, called

Dark Red

, especially for the Pas-de-Calais Louvre-Lens museum, inaugurated in 2012. The performances of this show, free, will last one hour and will be dyed on Fridays. , Saturdays and Sundays at 2 p.m., 3:30 p.m. and 5 p.m. in the Galerie du Temps and the glass pavilion of the institution.

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The theme tackled by the artist - duration - prompted her to focus on the question of the purification of the dancer's gesture and on the elementary forces common to all of Humanity in motion: walking.

Funny project when you know that the exhibition halls involved in creation sometimes present works that are 5,000 years old.

The long pieces of the museum, whose route leads the visitor through the ages, from the statuettes dating from the 4th millennium BC to the paintings of the 19th century, are this time borrowed by the thirteen members of the Rosas company, founded and directed by Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker.

This is the first time that this dance performance by the choreographer has been presented in a French museum, as indicated on the institution's website.

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In October, Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker celebrated - rather than her sixty years - her fifty years on the stage, during a French tour that began in Montpellier.

On this occasion, the choreographer distinguished herself in solo, accompanied by Goldberg variations by Jean-Sébastien Bach.

A recurring composer for the artist, whose creations have often been marked by the works of the German, with the shows

Toccata

and

Partita 2

, staged respectively in 1993 and 2013.

Source: lefigaro

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