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Steve Reich Evening
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About the Performance
American composer Steve Reich has inspired Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker throughout her choreographic career. With her second work Fase, four movements to the music of Steve Reich, she made an explosive impact on the international dance scene in 1982.
De Keersmaeker's choreographic style is accentuated in Steve Reich Evening, which brings together seven pieces made over twenty-five years to the music of her favourite composer.
Steve Reich found fame as a pioneer of minimalism but his work is also varied and diverse. This performance offers an opportunity to experience the work of two great artists performed by a superb company of dancers to live music from six piece contemporary ensemble, Ictus.
Reviews
‘among the greatest composers of the century.'
‘She makes the dance shimmer over the music to hallucinatory effect.'
‘De Keersmaeker... has brilliantly understood the magic in Reich's austerity.'
Part concert, part dance, part performance art, the Steve Reich Evening at the Festival Theatre is an enthralling blend of minimalist music and choreography and an excellent primer in ‘process music'.
The concept is introduced through the simple swinging of two microphones but most of the rest of the programme is played on more conventional instruments. Except that is for ‘Poeme Symphonique', ‘played' on one hundred metronomes. When the dancers make their appearance they create visual patterns that slip in and out of synch just as the music slips in and out of phase. The repetition of sound and movements is hypnotic, inducing a state of meditative calm.
Watching the almost machine-like performances it is strangely difficult not to see the most human of behaviours, of friendship and of belonging. And that's worlds away from those two swinging microphones.
‘consistently commands, challenges, enlightens and uplifts'
Photo: Herman Sorgeloos
Performance Details
UK Premiere
Rosas
Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker Choreography
Steve Reich, György Ligeti Music
Booking Information
Performance Dates:
- Fri 15 Aug - 7:30 pm
- Sat 16 Aug - 7:30 pm
- Sun 17 Aug - 7:30 pm
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- From £10Tickets:
- Approx 2 hours 10 minutesDuration:
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