En Atendant

Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker / Rosas

In En Atendant, Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker is taking a new step in her exploration of the combination of music and dance. After Bach and Webern in Zeitung, The Beatles in The Song and Mahler in 3Abschied, this time her starting point is the Ars Subtilior: a complex and intellectual form of polyphonic music from the 14th century that is based on dissonance and contrast. Ars Subtilior developed on the ruins of the plague and the Church at a time when the social, political and religious pillars of mediaeval society were fragmenting. Nowadays this upheaval seems more relevant than ever. In the light of today’s increasingly confusing events and the complexity of the choices we face, the question of our mortality and physicality is becoming ever more crucial.

Choreography
Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker

Danced by
Boštjan Antončič, Sophia Dinkel, Carlos Garbin, Marie Goudot, Cynthia Loemij, Mark Lorimer/Michaël Pomero, Sandy Williams, Sue-Yeon Youn

Created in 2010 with
Boštjan Antončič, Carlos Garbin, Cynthia Loemij, Mark Lorimer, Mikael Marklund, Chrysa Parkinson, Sandy Williams, Sue-Yeon Youn

Music
...L(ÉLEK)ZEM..’ - Istvan Matuz
En Atendant, souffrir m’estuet (ballade) - Filippo da Caserta
Estampie En Atendant 2 (2010) - Bart Coen
Sus un’ Fontayne (virelai) - Johannes Ciconia
Je prens d’amour noriture (virelai) - anonymous
Esperance, ki en mon coeur - anonymous

Ensemble
Cour et Cœur

Scenography
Michel François

Costumes
Anne-Catherine Kunz

Musicological advisor
Felicia Bockstael

Production
Rosas

Co-production
De Munt / La Monnaie (Brussels), Festival Grec (Barcelona), Grand Théâtre de Luxembourg, Théâtre de la Ville (Paris), Festival d’Avignon, Concertgebouw Brugge

World Première
Festival d'Avignon, Cloître des Célestins, July 9, 2010