Choreography & dance
Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker

Assistance choreography
Marion Ballester

Music
Joan Baez in Concert Part 2

Set and lighting
Jan Joris Lamers

Costume
Anke Loh

Sound
Alexandre Fostier

Image
Aliocha Van der Avoort

Production coordination
Patrick Martens

Technical director
Luc Galle

Technicians
Harry Cole, José Nuno Fernandes, Guy Peeters, Herman Sorgeloos, Jan Vercauteren, Jeroen Wuyts

Artistic Production assistance
Anne Van Aerschot

Production
Rosas, De Munt / La Monnaie

Co-production
Léonard de Vinci / Opéra de Rouen

Thanks to
Elizabeth Corbett

Première
Brussel/Bruxelles, Rosas Performance Space, 27/11 /2002

Photos (c) Herman Sorgeloos

Once was created on the 27th of november 2002 in the Rosas Performance Space. Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker alone on stage, twenty years after Violin Phase, her first solo. A silky, luminous voice. A young woman, barely 22, alone with her guitar. She is the daughter of a Mexican physician, Albert Vinicio, and a Scottish mother, Joan Bridge Baez, both immigrants to the USA.The photo on the album cover shows her wearing a simple, azure-blue dress, strangely beautiful with her long black hair, her profile is determined, her skin amber-toned, her soft brown eyes seem fixed on a future bursting with promise. That was 1963. The album was called Joan Baez in Concert, Part 2. A pearl of pure emotion, astounding grace and fervent activism. It includes the famous We shall overcome which Joan sang that previous summer, at age 21, in front of 250,000 people during the civil rights.