D'un soir un jour

Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker / Rosas

Under the title D’un soir un jour, Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker combines six short choreographic episodes in an exceptionally rich musical journey that starts and ends with the music of Claude Debussy. At the core of this choreographic and musical voyage are two compositions, one of which was created for Rosas by the contemporary British composer George Benjamin, which are in their turn preceded and followed by short pieces by Debussy’s contemporary Igor Stravinsky. Six opportunities to share in De Keersmaeker’s unceasing obsession with the relationship between pure movement and music.

Choreography
Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker

Dance vocabulary
Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, Rosas, David Hernandez, dance material from 2 parts of Erase-e(x) (Johanne Saunier [Joji Inc.], the Wooster Group, Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker)

Fragment from the original choreography to Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune choreographed by Vaslav Nijinsky

Film fragment
Blow-up (M. Antonioni, 1966)

Music
C. Debussy, Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune; I. Stravinsky, Symphonies of Wind Instruments / To the memory of Claude Achilles Debussy; G. Benjamin, Dance Figures; G. Benjamin, Ringed by the Flat Horizon; I. Stravinsky, Fireworks / Orchestral Fantasia; C. Debussy, Jeux;

Created with and danced by
Boštjan Antončič, Marta Coronado, Tale Dolven, Kosi Hidama, Fumiyo Ikeda, Kaya Kolodziejczyk, Cynthia Loemij, Mark Lorimer, Moya Michael, Elizaveta Penkóva, Zsuzsa Rozsavölgyi, Taka Shamoto, Igor Shyshko, Clinton Stringer

Set & lighting
Jan Joris Lamers

Costumes
Tim Van Steenbergen

Assisted by
Anne-Catherine Kunz

Musical asssistance
Alain Franco

Music analysis
Alain Franco, Bojana Cvejić

Research historical dance material in cooperation with
Simon Hecquet, Millicent Hodson

Production
Rosas, La Monnaie / De Munt (Brussels)

Coproduction
Théâtre de la Ville (Paris)

Première
17.05.2006, La Monnaie / De Munt (Brussels)