Languages

MARTENS / DE KEERSMAEKER / BROWN

GRACIELE QUINTET

Composition
Graciela Paraskevaidis

Choreography
Jan Martens

Dramaturgy
Tom Swaak

Musical performance
Karin de Fleyt (flute)
Peter Merckx (clarinet)
Veronique De Raedemaeker (violin)
Stijn Saveniers (cello and musical direction)
Geert Callaert (piano)

Dance
Brent Daneels
Towa Iwase
Taichi Sakai
Shane Urton
Louiza Avraam

PIANO PHASE / CLAPPING MUSIC

Composition
Steve Reich

Choreography
Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker

Light design
Remon Fromont

Costumes
Martine André
Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker

Piano
HERMESensemble

DANS CAST 1
Nicola Wills
Nicha Rodboon

DANS CAST 2
Jasmine Achtari
Madison Vomastek

TWELVE TON ROSE

Composition
Anton Webern

Choreography
Trisha Brown

Costumes
Burt Barr

Light design
Spencer Brown

Musical performance
Veronique De Raedemaeker (violin 1)
Eric Baeten (violin 2)
Marc Tooten (viola)
Stijn Saveniers (cello and musical direction)
Geert Callaert (piano)

Dance
Aleix Labara i Cerver
Allison McGuire
Anais De Caster
Claudia Ortiz Arraiza
Lara Fransen
Elisabeth Callebaut
Marius Bado Rock
Matthew Johnson
Philipe Lens
Rune Verbilt
Tiemen Bormans
Yaiza Davilla Gómez
Willem-Jan Sas
Charles Antoni

Three choreographers, five performances of 20th-century chamber music. Trisha Brown shares the evening with Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker and Jan Martens.

Three generations, three choreographers, each having followed their own path, but who nevertheless built upon each other’s work, in more than one respect. In a perfect dialectic, they each in their own way reconcile reverence for music with equally exalted dance, rules with freedom, abstraction with recognisability, and virtuosity with minimalism.

In her iconic Twelve Ton Rose, Trisha Brown, after several decades as one of the world’s leading figures in postmodern dance, found her match in the concentrated music of Anton Webern. Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, one of her admirers, would, in turn, irrevocably claim a place in the sanctum sanctorum of the Flemish dance canon with her early piece FASE, to compositions by Steve Reich. Jan Martens, an ardent fan of both, created one of the most breath-taking choreographies of recent years with his fearless and frenetic ON SPEED in 2021. The clear lines of composer Graciela Paraskevaídis inspired him to choreograph the world-premiering creation of the evening: GRACIELA QUINTET.