Drumming

Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker / Rosas
Fri 03/06/2022 - 20:00
Sat 04/06/2022 - 20:00
Sun 05/06/2022 - 16:00
Cancelled
Tue 07/06/2022 - 20:00
Wed 08/06/2022 - 20:00
Thu 09/06/2022 - 20:00
Fri 10/06/2022 - 20:00

Ticket prices

€ 24 (seated) / € 20 (standing)

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Update: due to the rainy conditions, the performance on Sunday, June 5th, has been cancelled! Ticket holders have been notified personally.  

Drumming (1998) is one of Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker’s most iconic choreographies, written to the eponymous, minimalistic percussion score by Steve Reich. 

The music starts with a single rhythmic motif, which subsequently multiplies and unfolds into a rich cornucopia of textures including drums, woodwinds, brass and voice. Reich here ramps up the technique: through minor tempo accelerations the musicians almost imperceptibly push their unison out of joint, resulting in a never-ending volley of canons. In the dance, the choreographic complexity was devised in a similar fashion: a single movement phrase serves as the foundation for an infinite number of variations across time and space. When the music stops and the bodies come to a halt, the audience realizes what they have witnessed: a wave of pure dance and pure sound, a vortex of vital energy.
To be seen in the unique location of the Velodrome!

Presented by STUK.

Press

“This fusion of atomic precision and raw energy is one of the masterpieces of the late 20th century.” (The Guardian)

“Trying to follow the logic of that choreography is hypnotising and an impossible task, as movements are doubled, trebled and multiplied. Moments of stillness paradoxically ramp up the energy on stage, and bodies leap, run and twist in ever more ingenious patterns.” (***** The Guardian)

“I don't know another choreographer who can match De Keersmaeker's way of making the configurations of dance look as necessary as the laws of nature, yet as freely spontaneous as child's play.” (***** The Guardian)

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choreography Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker danced by Kim Amankwaa, Boštjan Antončič, Laura Bachman, Alex Blondeau, Cassandre Cantillon, Lav Crnčević, Sophia Dinkel, José Paulo dos Santos, Léa Dubois, Anika Edström Kawaji, Papis Faye, Rafael Galdino, Frank Gizycki, Yuika Hashimoto, Thomas Higginson, Audrey Merilus, Mariana Miranda, Laura Maria Poletti, Margarida Ramalhete, Soa Ratsifandrihana, Lena Schattenberg, Cintia Sebők, Jacob Storer, Mamadou Wagué created in 1998 with Iris Bouche, Bruce Campbell, Marta Coronado, Alix Eynaudi, Fumiyo Ikeda, Martin Kilvády, Oliver Koch, Cynthia Loemij, Roberto Oliván de la Iglesia, Ursula Robb, Taka Shamoto, Rosalba Torres music Steve Reich, Drumming music direction Georges-Elie Octors musicians Ictus set and lighting Jan Versweyveld costumes Dries Van Noten production 1998 Rosas, La Monnaie / De Munt Brussels), La Bâtie - Festival de Genève coproduction La Monnaie / De Munt (Brussels), Sadler's Wells (London), Les Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg
photo Herman Sorgeloos