11 January 2008 will see the world premiere of Zeitung, the new creation by Rosas, at the Theatre de la Ville in Paris. The performance will then immediately commence a tour of France, Belgium, the Netherlands and Spain.
Together with the Rosas dancers, the choreographer Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker and pianist Alain Franco go in search of the unstable combination of music and dance, choreography and improvisation, romance and disillusion. In a broad historical gesture, Bach, Schoenberg and Webern traverse the geometrical principles and improvisational wild cards of the Rosas choreography. In harmony and difference, in unison or counterpoint. In Zeitung, music and dance do not meet on the basis of any similarity or parallel, but on the intersection of the two.
Alain Franco provides live piano accompaniment for the nine Rosas dancers. The set and lighting are by Jan Joris Lamers. « Back to Bach, and Webern again.
Looking for ways to give shape to the concepts on which their music is founded.
An attempt to shed some light on the time-span between Bach, Webern and the present.
Webern as a reflection on Bach, and vice versa.
Two directions in time. » Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker
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