Following the 'Ivo van Hove Career Overview', we will be focusing once again on a body of work that we have continuously presented in deSingel over the years. Now it is the turn of choreographer Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker. Much has already been said and written about her work. Starting in the early eighties she developed a career that had a great effect on the dance landscape and has been commented on by numerous critics, theorists and dance specialists. On 29th January 2012 we will be devoting a whole day to this great artist and her oeuvre, which will soon span a period of thirty years. This time however, we shall approach it from a different angle. Following the repertory project 'Early Works', for once we will talk not only about the past, but also about the future. What questions does this choreographer consider still to be open? Which musicians and artists she would like to work with? In the years ahead will she still embrace the romantic period? What links the Middle Ages and the Enlightenment? How does the body relate to an increasingly technological society?
In conversation with dancers, musicians, writers and artists, and with past and future associates, we will spend a whole day exploring the complex landscape of influences and desires that characterise Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker's work. We transform questions from the past into projections of what lies ahead and so mark out tentative sightlines to the future.
Additionally, and in the same spirit, the fifth Bouge B dance and performance festival will be a 'special edition' in which PARTS will be our guest. Since its foundation in 1995, the Performing Arts Research and Training Studios under the direction of Anne Teresa have been a unique laboratory in which young talent from all over the world has developed.