Fase, Four Movements to the Music of Steve Reich

Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker's breakthrough choreography back on stage in Bruges

Fase, Four Movements to the Music of Steve Reich, choreographer Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker’s very first performance, premiered in 1982. Fase comprises three duets and one solo, choreographed to four repetitive compositions by the American minimalist Steve Reich. De Keersmaeker uses the structure of Reich’s music to develop an independent movement idiom that doesn’t merely illustrate the music but also adds a new dimension to it. Both the music and the dance start from the principle of phase shifting through tiny variations: movements that are initially perfectly synchronous gradually start slipping and sliding, resulting in an ingenious play of continuously changing forms and patterns.

Having always danced Fase herself, Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, for the first time in the work’s history, now passes it on to two new dancers.

credits

Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker: choreography
Yuika Hashimoto, Laura Maria Poletti / Laura Bachman, Soa Ratsifandrihana: dance
Michèle Anne De Mey, Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker: creation
Remon Fromont: light design
Martine André / Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker: costumes (1981)

production (1982): Schaamte vzw (Brussels), Avila vzw (Brussels)
coproductie: De Munt / La Monnaie, Sadler's Wells (London), Les Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg, Théâtre de la Ville (Paris)
special thanks to Ella De Vos, Stefano Scoli

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Steve Reich (1936)
- Piano Phase
- Come Out
- Violin Phase
- Clapping Music