Alternate Title En Atendant & Cesena, En Atendant / Cesena
Premiere New York Premiere
Country of Origin Belgium
Description Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker and her Belgium-based company, Rosas, present two companion works grounded in the exquisite, polyphonic medieval style known as ars subtilior. In En Atendant, De Keersmaeker’s style of deliberate, fluid movement takes us into the soft glow of twilight. Eight bodies cluster, disperse, and connect again in a corporeal counterpoint, echoing the dissonant music of an onstage trio (viol, recorder, and voice). In Cesena, a new day begins: dancers inscribe their sweeping movements on a stage circled with sand, while singers (from the ravishing vocal ensemble graindelavoix, led by BjörnSchmelzer) intone vibrant tapestries of sound, invoking the ancient and the modern alike.
Identifier 2013f.00007
