Choreography by Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker

Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker has chosen the quavering voice of Joan Baez to underscore her dance. The black vinyl tracks of Baez’ music cradled this choreographer’s childhood and adolescence. In risked introspection, Anne Teresa dances to the illuminating melodies of the most popular, most pacifist, folk singer of the 1960s, a singer acutely sensitive to the distress of the downtrodden and the heartbroken.

The CD version, burned from the original record, plays in the studio. Anne Teresa turns an anniversary page, that of 20 years of Rosas with the stage set to re-launch the leaps and bounds of several of her greatest repertoire pieces, danced by their original performers: Fase, Bartók/aantekeningen, Toccata, among others. She returns with a solo dance after the premiere of (but if a look should) April me, inspired by Stravinsky’s telluric Noces, and after the collective breaking-out of Drumming, gushing with the percussive flood of Steve Reich playing live with the musicians of Ictus.

Anne Teresa retakes the stage, along with her emotions, alone with the voice of her own body, facing Joan Baez in concert – she, too, alone with her acoustic guitar.