A Choreographer’s Score: Fase, Rosas danst Rosas, Elena’s Aria, Bartók

A Choreographer’s Score: Fase, Rosas danst Rosas, Elena’s Aria, Bartók 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
the four early works (1981-87). A narrative self-analysis is prompted by questions aimed at uncovering methods and intuitions from the formative years of this distinguished choreographer. Where did the first dance movements come from? How were intricate structures conceived, and how
did the joyful invention of counterpoint and performing styles take place?

De Keersmaeker reflects on her memory of reasons and chance-events that determined choices of music and movement, spatial and lighting architecture. She seeks to illuminate what guides the “organization of bodies and energies in space and time” in the four works that make up the basis for her choreographic œuvre. 

Searching for a way to mediate the rich and diverse material that forms a choreography, De Keersmaeker and Cvejić create a compound score for Fase, Rosas danst Rosas, Elena’s Aria, and Bartók’s String Quartet No. 4. The score for each of the four choreographies combines a detailed verbal account, illustrated by numerous drawings, schemes, photos, and post- performance documents, with demonstrations danced by the choreographer, and excerpts from performances in which explanations begin to dance. 

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Available in English (ISBN 978 90 6153 541 6) and French (ISBN 978 90 6153 710 6) | €49,95 | 248 pages | 4 DVDs English spoken, subtitled in Dutch and French

Authors
Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, Bojana Cvejic

Coordination
Johanne de Bie, Anne Van Aerschot, Ann Mestdag (Mercatorfonds)

Copy-editing
William Wheeler

Photography
Thierry De Mey, Michiel Hendryckx, Marie-Françoise Plissard, Claude Rey, Herman Sorgeloos, Jean-Luc Tanghe, Max Vadukul

DVDs
Interviews with Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker by Bojana Cvejić; 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
Mercatorfonds, Rosas

  • A Choreographer's Score - Early Works - Excerpt