Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker

Synopsis

Each dancer is like a musical instrument with its own sonority and colour.
- Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker

This triptych spans ten years of creation (from 1986 to 1995) and bears witness to Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker’s remarkable dialogues with the great scores of classical music. The term “dialogue” is undoubtedly too tame to describe this almost physical confrontation between two arts.

De Keersmaeker addresses music using all the nuances of passion: need, defiance, oneupmanship… The key notion is polyphony. The irresistible energy that sets free these fluid, nervous bodies – at times openly insolent, at others exhausted as if conquered by the musics – is essentially that of “dizzying counterpoint”. Additional voices continually emerge; new connections or unexpected combinations multiplying the curves of a spiral of movements in which the audience joyfully loses all sense of direction.

De Keersmaeker's work on Bartók’s Quartet N°4 displays her initial style: a combination of short motifs, danced with dry humour by a quartet of adolescent girls. The virtuoso choreography to Beethoven’s Die Grosse Fuge, which this time is highly masculine and based on a falling motif, allows us to appreciate the development of the choreographer’s compositional technique.

The third section, Verklärte Nacht (Transfigured Night), dedicated to the young Schönberg, finally reveals her most intimate side: the evening ends in heartrending abandon, with the almost narrative evocation of a couple transfigured by the gift of love –, portrayed in dance suffused with a passion for music. Sharing the same musical intensity, these three ballets form a poetic and mysterious ensemble that will be entering the Paris Opera Ballet's repertoire this season.

Duration : 1h45 with 1 interval

Artists

Creative team

Béla Bartók Music
Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker Choreography
Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker Set design
Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker Lighting design
Rosas Costume design

Cast

Latest update 25 June 2015, cast is likely to change.

Creative team

Ludwig van Beethoven Music La Grande Fugue, op.133
Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker Choreography
Jean-Luc Ducourt Director
Jan Joris Lamers Set design
Nathalie Douxfils Costume design
Rosas Costume design
Georges-Elie Octors Musical analysis

Cast

Latest update 25 June 2015, cast is likely to change.

Creative team

Arnold Schönberg Music Verklärte Nacht opus 4, version for string orchestra
Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker Choreography
Gilles Aillaud Set design
Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker Set design
Rudy Sabounghi Costume design
Vinicio Cheli Lighting design
Georges-Elie Octors Musical analysis
Rosas Musical analysis

Cast

Latest update 25 June 2015, cast is likely to change.

Étoiles, Premiers Danseurs and Corps de Ballet
Paris Opera Orchestra

Media

Backstage (3)
Videos (4)
In pictures (13)
Podcast (1)

Podcast Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker

Listen the podcast
Stage memories: Juliette Hilaire

Watch the video
Stage memories: Sae Eun Park

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« Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker » - Trailer
Quatuor n°4 by A. T. De Keersmaeker -Sae Eun Park, Juliette Hilaire, Charlotte Ranson, Laura Bachman
Die Grosse Fuge by Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker
Verklärte Nacht by Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker

Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker

Access and services

Palais Garnier

Place de l'Opéra

75009 Paris

Public transport

Underground Opéra (lignes 3, 7 et 8), Chaussée d’Antin (lignes 7 et 9), Madeleine (lignes 8 et 14), Auber (RER A)

Bus 20, 21, 27, 29, 32, 45, 52, 66, 68, 95, N15, N16

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Car park

Q-Park Edouard VII16 16, rue Bruno Coquatrix 75009 Paris

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At the Palais Garnier, buy €10 tickets for seats in the 6th category (very limited visibility, two tickets maximum per person) on the day of the performance at the Box offices.

In both our venues, discounted tickets are sold at the box offices from 30 minutes before the show:

€25 tickets for under-28s, unemployed people (with documentary proof less than 3 months old) and senior citizens over 65 with non-taxable income (proof of tax exemption for the current year required)
€40 tickets for senior citizens over 65

Get samples of the operas and ballets at the Paris Opera gift shops: programmes, books, recordings, and also stationery, jewellery, shirts, homeware and honey from Paris Opera.

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Access
Last minute tickets
Gift shops

Palais Garnier

Place de l'Opéra

75009 Paris

Public transport

Underground Opéra (lignes 3, 7 et 8), Chaussée d’Antin (lignes 7 et 9), Madeleine (lignes 8 et 14), Auber (RER A)

Bus 20, 21, 27, 29, 32, 45, 52, 66, 68, 95, N15, N16

Calculate my route

Car park

Q-Park Edouard VII16 16, rue Bruno Coquatrix 75009 Paris

Book your parking spot

At the Palais Garnier, buy €10 tickets for seats in the 6th category (very limited visibility, two tickets maximum per person) on the day of the performance at the Box offices.

In both our venues, discounted tickets are sold at the box offices from 30 minutes before the show:

€25 tickets for under-28s, unemployed people (with documentary proof less than 3 months old) and senior citizens over 65 with non-taxable income (proof of tax exemption for the current year required)
€40 tickets for senior citizens over 65

Get samples of the operas and ballets at the Paris Opera gift shops: programmes, books, recordings, and also stationery, jewellery, shirts, homeware and honey from Paris Opera.