Choreography and dance: Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker / Rosas / Music: Johann Sebastian Bach, Die Goldberg-Variationen, BWV 988 / Piano and musical collaboration: Alain Franco / Choreographic assistance: Diane Madden / Set and lighting design: Minna Tiikkainen / Assistant to the artistic direction: Martine Lange / Artistic coordination and planning: Anne Van Aerschot / Technical direction: Thomas Verachtert / Assistant technical direction: Bennert Vancottem / Technicians: Tom Theunis, Jonathan Maes, Sara Breugelmans / Costume coordination: Veerle Van den Wouwer / Costume assistence: Els Van Buggenhout / Sewing: Emmanuelle Erhart
Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker & Alain Franco / Rosas
The Goldberg Variations, BWV 988
- Music
- Dance
In her second exploration of Bach's iconic music, award winning choreographer Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker returns to the stage herself. In direct dialogue with musician Alain Franco, she follows her central principle: to understand the score as a choreographic blueprint – precise, intense and full of dance-like clarity.
“The Goldberg Variations, BWV 988” is a deeply poetic exploration of Johann Sebastian Bach's famous late work, in which the composer explores the boundaries of musical themes in a play of variations, canons and fugues. For this composition, he started from a simple and quiet melody, joined with an underlying bass line, which steadily unfolds into a musical cosmos that reveals itself with extraordinary variety and unparalleled complexity.
The large cast of “The Six Brandenburg Concertos” – an earlier work by De Keersmaeker based on Bach's composition of the same name – is now brought back to a solo performance danced by herself. In doing so, she stays true to the same principle of the musical score for the choreography: direct communication with musicians and a strictly structured framework. Thus, even if it also appears light-footed, playful and sometimes even mischievous, the choreography of this solo is also prescribed in advance down to the last detail. What emerges is a dance concert that allows both music and dance to have a voice of their own, but also combines them in harmony.
Press:
“By the time the theme returns we have been on a journey of riches and strangeness, indulgence, frustration and beautiful music. There’s something incredible about witnessing De Keersmaeker’s steadfast commitment to her craft, her mining of musical form (and her undimmed abilities) but there’s not much in the way of connection or joy.”
Lyndsey Winship in “The Guardian”
Cast
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Dates
Current
Credits
Production: Rosas. Co-production: Wiener Festwochen, Concertgebouw, De Munt / La Monnaie, Théâtre de la Ville à Paris - Théâtre du Châtelet, Internationaal Theater Amsterdam / Julidans, Sadler’s Wells, Montpellier Danse. Supported by: Tax Shelter of the Belgian Federal Government, in collaboration with Casa Kafka Pictures – Belfius, Flemish Community, Flemish Community Commission (VGC).
Location
HAU1
Stresemannstr. 29, 10963 BerlinThere are two marked parking spots in front of the building. Access to the Parkett by means of a separate entrance with lift when necessary. Barrier-free restroom facilities are available.
