Drumming (live)

Rosas & Ictus

this event is part of

TOPSTUK REICH

dance

Fri 12 Nov 2021 -20.00

start	20.00
expected end time	21.15

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Part of Abo Topstuk 21-22

The legendary choreography from 1998 to live music

Drumming – based on Steve Reich's minimalist percussion score of the same name – is one of Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker's most iconic choreographies. The music starts with a single obsessive, rhythmic motif that multiplies and unfolds in a rich variety of textures, among them, drums, wood, metal and voice. Reich pushes the technique he had applied earlier in Piano Phase to the extreme: slight accelerations almost imperceptibly disrupt the musicians’ unison, creating an endless game of canons. In the choreography the complexity arises in a similar way: endless variations in time and space grow from a single movement. It is only when the music and the bodies come to a standstill that the audience realise what they have experienced: a wave of pure dance and pure sound, a vortex of life energy.

credits

Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker: choreography
Rosas: Kim Amankwaa, Boštjan Antončič, Laura Bachman, Alex Blondeau, Cassandre Cantillon, Lav Crnčević, Sophia Dinkel, José Paulo dos Santos, Léa Dubois, Anika Edström Kawaji, Papis Faye, Rafael Galdino, Frank Gizycki, Yuika Hashimoto, Thomas Higginson, Audrey Merilus, Mariana Miranda, Laura Maria Poletti, Margarida Ramalhete, Soa Ratsifandrihana, Lena Schattenberg, Cintia Sebők, Jacob Storer & Mamadou Wagué: dance
Ictus: ensemble
Jan Versweyveld: décor & lighting design
Dries Van Noten: costume design

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Steve Reich (1936)
Drumming

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Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker: choreography
Rosas: Kim Amankwaa, Boštjan Antončič, Laura Bachman, Alex Blondeau,