Rosas

Opera Ballet Vlaanderen dances Rain.

Since the 2022-2023 season, Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker is an associate artist of Opera Ballet Vlaanderen. After Mozart / Concert Arias. Un moto di gioia (1992) in 2022 and two movements (Piano Phase and Clapping Music) from the iconic piece Fase, Four Movements to the Music of Steve Reich (1982) earlier this year, Opera Ballet Vlaanderen now presents the dazzling choreography Rain (2001) .

Choreographed to Steve Reich's Music for 18 Musicians (1976), Rain is one of De Keersmaeker’s most well-known pieces. With this vibrant choreography, De Keersmaeker returned, in 2001, to two of her great loves: pure dance and the minimalistic music of Steve Reich. Accompanied by the pulsating tones of his music, for an hour and ten minutes ten dancers occupy the stage, delineated by a curtain of fine strings, displaying an impressive succession of virtuoso dance phrases. The mathematical figures, the sustained repetition, the geometric occupation of the space, the art of continuous variation – everything that had gradually become the choreographer’s signature is pushed to the extreme in Rain.

Since its première in 2001, Rain has been danced by multiple casts, including by a new generation of Rosas dancers in 2016, and by the Opera de Paris.

From September 11, 2024 until January 26, 2025, Rain danced by Opera Ballet Vlaanderen will be presented in Ghent, Bruges, and Antwerp. For more information and tickets, please visit OBV's website.