Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker
Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker (* 1960 in Mechelen ) is a Belgian choreographer , ballet master and solo dancer.
Life
De Keersmaeker grew up in Wemmel in Flanders, her father was a farmer, the mother a teacher. She attended Maurice Béjart's mudra dance school in Brussels from 1978 to 1980. In 1981 she studied at the Tisch School of the Arts in New York .
She presented her first production, Asch , in Brussels in 1980. After her return from the USA , the choreography Fase followed in 1982 . In 1983 she founded her own dance company, Rosas . With the choreography for her troupe, Rosas danst Rosas , she achieved her international breakthrough. The Kaaitheater in Brussels offered her a performance venue for her work in the 1980s.
In 1992, De Keersmaeker's company Rosas was accepted as a permanent company at Brussels' Théatre Royal de La Monnaie / Koninklijke Muntschouwburg .
In 1995, De Keersmaeker and the Théatre Royal de la Monnaie founded the international school for modern dance PARTS (Performing Arts Research & Training Studio), which was supposed to fill the gap created by the move of Béjart's École Mudra to Lausanne. The productions of the Rosas company are regularly invited to international theater and dance festivals around the world.
De Keersmaeker received an honorary doctorate from the Free University of Brussels in 1995. She is also the recipient of the French Officier de l ' Ordre des Arts et des Lettres .
Awards
- 1988: Bessie Award for Rosas danst Rosas
- 1989: Japanese Dance Award for the best foreign production for microcosm
- London Dance and Performances Award for Stella
- Sole d'Oro for the film Oops
- Grand Prix Vidéo Danse for the film Oops
- 1994: Dance Screen Award for the film Achterland
- 1996: Eugène Baie Prize
- 1997: Grand Prix International Vidéo Danse for the film Rosas danst Rosas
- 1998: Golden laurel wreath in Sarajevo for drumming
- 1998: Special jury award of the International Festival of Film and New Media on Art in Athens for the film Rosas danst Rosas
- 2000: Grand Prix Carina Ari of the Festival International Media Dance for the short film Tippeke
- 2003: German Critics' Prize
- 2011: Gold Medal of Merit of the State of Vienna
- 2019: German Theater Prize Der Faust in the Choreography category for The six Brandenburg Concerts at the Volksbühne Berlin
Works (selection)
- 1980: Ash
- 1982: Fase , music Steve Reich
- 1983: Rosas danst Rosas , music by Thierry De Mey and Peter Vermeersch
- 1984: Elena's Aria
- 1986: Bartók / Aantekeningen
- 1987: Dilapidated banks / Media material - Landscape with Argonauts ( Heiner Müller )
- Microcosm Monument Self-portrait with Reich and Riley (and Chopin is also there) / In gently flowing movement - Quatuor No. 4
- 1988: Ottone, Ottone
- 1990: Stella
- Back country
- 1992: ERTS
- Rosa , dance film to music by Béla Bartók , directed by Peter Greenaway
- Mozart Concert Arias, un moto di gioia , in collaboration with the Orchester des Champs Elysées , conductor Philippe Herreweghe
- 1993: Toccata
- 1994: Kinok , in collaboration with Thierry De Mey and the Ictus Ensemble
- Amor Constante más allá de la muerte , in collaboration with Thierry De Mey and the Ictus Ensemble
- 1995: Transfigured Night
- 1996: Woud , music: Berg, Schönberg and Wagner
- 1997: 3 solos for Vincent Dunoyer , together with Steve Paxton and The Wooster Group
- Just Before , to the live performance of the Ictus Ensemble, music: Magnus Lindberg, John Cage, Yannis Xenakis, Steve Reich, Pierre Bartholomée and Thierry De Mey
- 1998: Bluebeard's Castle , opera by ( Béla Bartók ), debut as an opera director at the Théatre Royal de la Monnaie
- Drumming , music Steve Reich
- 1989: The Lisbon Piece , guest choreography for the Portuguese Companhia Nacional de Bailado
- Quartet , dance theater performance based on Heiner Müller
- with / for / by , partial choreography and duet with Elizabeth Corbett
- I said I , together with Jolente De Keersmaeker (director), music: Ictus Ensemble , Aka Moon and DJ Grazzhoppa
- 2000: In Real Time , Music: Aka Moon
- 2001: Rain , music by Steve Reich
- 2002: Once (first solo evening after twenty years in La Monnaie in Brussels )
- 2010: Farewell , together with Jérôme Bel
- En attendant
- 2011: Cesena
- 2013: Vortex Temporum , Rosas & Ictus
- Partita 2
- 2014: Transfigured Night
- 2015: Golden Hours (As You Like It) , music Brian Eno
- Work / Travail / Arbeid , project at WIELS , Brussels, with all-day dance performance during the opening hours and for the entire duration of the exhibition, music: Ictus Ensemble
literature
- Philippe Guisgand: Les fils d'un entrelacs sans fin: La danse dans l'œuvre d'Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker [paperback], Presses Universitaires du Septentrion, 2008, ISBN 2-7574-0029-0 .
- Irmela Kästner (with photographs by Tina Ruisnger): Meg Stuart, Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker , Munich: K. Kieser, 2007, ISBN 978-3-935456-15-9 .
Web links
- Biography Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker , accessed August 21, 2012.
- "Amor Constante" ; Interview with De Keersmaeker by Astrid Kaminiski in VAN magazine on April 18, 2018
Individual evidence
- ↑ Katrin Bettina Müller: "Dancing challenges gravity" . In: The daily newspaper: taz . September 12, 2018, ISSN 0931-9085 , p. 15 ( taz.de [accessed September 12, 2018]).
- ^ NY Times - People: Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker , at nytimes.com, accessed February 24, 2010
- ↑ November 29, 2011, corpusweb.net: Vienna honors a choreographer ( Memento from January 30, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) (January 9, 2016)
- ↑ DER FAUST German Theater Prize 2019: The Prize Winners. In: buhnenverein.de. November 9, 2019, accessed November 9, 2019 .
- ↑ Deutschlandfunk.de , Kultur heute , November 29, 2002, Gabriele Wittmann: Once (January 9, 2016)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | De Keersmaeker, Anne Teresa |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Belgian choreographer and solo dancer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1960 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Mechelen Belgium |