En Atendant & Cesena : A Choreographer's Score

En Atendant & Cesena: A Choreographer’s Score is a conversation in which the Belgian choreographer Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker offers the performance theorist and musicologist Bojana Cvejić wide-ranging insights into choreography, and into the making of her two most recent large-scale works, En Atendant and Cesena (co-authored by Björn Schmelzer and visually shaped by Ann Veronica Janssens), which explore the world of Ars subtilior, the highly refined musical style of the late fourteenth century. The same special format of scoring by way of narration, analysis, and documentation, devised by the authors as an examination of De Keersmaeker’s early works in A Choreographer’s Score: Fase, Rosas danst Rosas, Elena's Aria, Bartók (2012), is enriched here by the manifold registers and intricacies of a mature style and an elaborate poetics. Thirty years of development in De Keersmaeker’s oeuvre has taken place since the times discussed and documented in the first Choreographer’s Score.

This second edition comprises a book of interviews, illustrated by numerous drawings, schemes, photos, various choreographic and dramaturgical materials, and post-performance documents, as well as 3 DVDs including demonstrations performed by an excellent cast of dancers from the ensemble Rosas and singers from the ensemble Graindelavoix. As a special feature of the three video interviews, excerpts from the filmed performances in the Papal Palace in Avignon by the filmmakers Olivia Rochette and Gerard-Jan Claes are included.

The compound score is accompanied by a book of photographs by the visual artist Michel François, whose gaze stems from his collaborative role in shaping the visual space of En Atendant.

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Available in English (ISBN 978 94 6230 012 5) and French (ISBN 978 94 6230 011 8) | €59,95 | 2 books 192 + 128 pages | 3 DVDs English spoken, subtitled in Dutch and French 

Authors
Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, Bojana Cvejic

Assistance in research
Anne Van Aerschot, Femke Gyselinck

Coordination
Johanne de Bie (Rosas), Ann Mestdag (Mercatorfonds), Bregje Provo (Tijdsbeeld & Pièce Montée)

Copyediting
William Wheeler

Photographers
Charlie De Keersmaecker, Michel François, Christophe Reynaud de Lage, Herman Sorgeloos, Max Vadukul, Anne Van Aerschot, Philippe Varoutsikos

DVDs
Interviews with Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, Björn Schmelzer by Bojana Cvejic; Recording & editing by Olivia Rochette & Gerard-Jan Claes

Graphic design
Casier/Fieuws

Production
Kees Eijrond, Inge Pieters, Frederik Verrote (Rosas), Ronny Gobyn and Rik Jacques (Tijdsbeeld & Pièce Montée)

Printing and binding
New Goff, Ghent

Publishers
Rosas, Mercatorfonds, Brussels

  • A Choreographer's Score - Cesena - Excerpt
  • Rencontre "Lire la danse" entre Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker et Gilles Amalvi