Fase, Four Movements to the Music of Steve Reich, choreographer Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker’s very first performance, premiered in 1982. Fase comprises three duets and one solo, choreographed to four repetitive compositions by the American minimalist Steve Reich. De Keersmaeker uses the structure of Reich’s music to develop an independent movement idiom that doesn’t merely illustrate the music but also adds a new dimension to it. Both the music and the dance start from the principle of phase shifting through tiny variations: movements that are initially perfectly synchronous gradually start slipping and sliding, resulting in an ingenious play of continuously changing forms and patterns.
Having always danced Fase herself, Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, for the first time in the work’s history, now passes it on to two new dancers.
Choreography: Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker
Danced by: Laura Bachman, Yuika Hashimoto
Created with: Michèle Anne De Mey, Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker
Music: Steve Reich
– Piano Phase (1967)
– Come Out (1966)
– Violin Phase (1967)
– Clapping Music (1972)
Lighting Design: Remon Fromont
Costumes: 1981 : Martine André, Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker
Rehearsal Director: Fumiyo Ikeda
Artistic Coordination and Planning: Anne Van Aerschot
Assistant to the Artistic Director: Martine Lange
Technical Coordination: Thomas Verachtert
Technicians: Bennert Vancottem, Jan-Simon De Lille
Costume Coordinator: Alexandra Verschueren assisted by Els Van Buggenhout
Wardrobe: Els Van Buggenhout
Sewing: Maria Eva Rodrigues-Reyes, Gisèle Charles
World Premiere: 18.03.1982 Beursschouwburg (Brussels)
Production 1982: Schaamte vzw (Brussels), Avila vzw (Brussels)
Production: Rosas
Coproduction: De Munt / La Monnaie (Brussels), Sadler’s Wells (London), Les Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg, Théâtre de la Ville (Paris)
Acknowledgements: Ella De Vos, Stefano Scoli
This production is realized with the support of the Tax Shelter of the Belgian Federal Government, in collaboration with Casa Kafka Pictures –Belfius.
Rosas is supported by the Flemish Community and by the Flemish Community Commission (VGC).
