Created by
Adriana Borriello, Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, Michèle Anne De Mey, Fumiyo Ikeda

Danced by ( 4 dancers, alternating cast)
Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker / Moya Michael, Cynthia Loemij, Sarah Ludi, Samantha Van Wissen or Tale Dolven, Moya Michael / Sandra Ortega Bejarano, Elizaveta Penkova, Sue-Yeon Youn

Music
Thierry De Mey, Peter Vermeersch

Musicians
Thierry De Mey, Walter Hus, Eric Sleichim, Peter Vermeersch

Costumes
Rosas

Production
Rosas, Kaaitheater (1983)
Hernemingen / Reprises: Rosas, La Monnaie / De Munt

Premiere
6 May 1983, Théâtre de la Balsamine, Brussel / Bruxelles,
Presentatie / Présentation Kaaitheaterfestival

Awards
Bessie Award for the light design, New York (1987)
Bessie Award for the choreography, New York (1987)
Eve du Spectacle, awarded by l’Association des Journalistes du Spectacle (1989)

Photos (c) Herman Sorgeloos

In 1982 Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker’s Fase was a revelation. A year later the choreographer, who was still very young, surprised audiences once more with her extremely powerful composition, Rosas danst Rosas. The production was also the start of the Rosas group.

Rosas danst Rosas was performed countless times all over the world. It became a classic and has been learned over and over by new groups of dancers. Today, 25 years later, Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker is once again taking her place on stage and to dance with three members of the second generation, Cynthia Loemij, Sarah Ludi and Samantha Van Wissen. 

 Rosas danst Rosas is a prefiguration of the tensions that characterise Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker’s work, these being the contrast between rational structure and meaningful emotion, the dialectic between aggression and tenderness, the interaction between unison and counterpoint, and between uniformity and individuality. The music of Rosas danst Rosas was composed by Thierry De Mey and Peter Vermeersch.