Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, Radouan Mriziga / Rosas, A7LA5
Il Cimento dell’Armonia
e dell’Inventione
Antonio Vivaldi composed "The Four Seasons" 300 years ago as part of the concerto collection "Il Cimento dell'Armonia e dell'Inventione". As one of the most famous pieces of music in the world, Vivaldi's work is deeply rooted in the memory of the West and a popular ode to nature. But what does the work still say to us today? In times of climate crisis, can we still speak of four seasons at all?
The starting point for this evening is the brilliant recording by violinist Amandine Beyer, who teaches at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis, and her ensemble Gli Incogniti. The unmistakable signature of the celebrated choreographer Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker meets the mathematically precise choreography of Radouan Mriziga, a shooting star of international dance. The two share an interest in geometry, embodied abstraction and the observation of nature, as well as a concern for an environment exploited by humans, whose continued existence determines life on this planet. If we look at the four seasons from this perspective, the urgency of the impending climate crisis and the responsibility of art in these crisis-ridden times becomes painfully clear.
Category:
Dance
Language:
No language
Duration:
90 Minutes
Credits:
Choreography
Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, Radouan Mriziga
Created and performed by
Boštjan Antončič, Nassim Baddag, Lav Crnčević, José Paulo dos Santos
Music
Antonio Vivaldi, Le quattro stagioni
Recording
Amandine Beyer, Gli Incogniti
Alpha Classics/Outhere Music 2015
Musical Analysis
Amandine Beyer
Poems
Asmaa Jama, ‘We, the salvage'
Antonio Vivaldi, ‘Le quattro stagioni’
Set and Light Design
Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, Radouan Mriziga
Costume Design
Aouatif Boulaich
Rehearsal Director:
Johanne Saunier
Assistant to the Artistic Director
Martine Lange
Artistic Coordination and Planning
Anne Van Aerschot
Tour Manager
Emma Hermans
Technical Director
Thomas Verachtert
Technicians
Dag Jennes, Jan-Simon De Lille
Costume Coördinator
Alexandra Verschueren
Assisted by Chiara Mazzarolo and Els Van Buggenhout
Wardrobe
Els Van Buggenhout
Production
Rosas
Co-Production
Berliner Festspiele, Charleroi danse, centre chorégraphique de Wallonie-Bruxelles, Concertgebouw Brugge (Bruges), De Munt/La Monnaie (Brussels), Festival d'Automne à Paris, Festival de Marseille, ImPulsTanz (Vienna), Sadler's Wells (London), Théâtre de la Ville (Paris)
with the support of Dance Reflections by Van Cleef & Arpels
The guest performance in Basel is supported by the L. + Th. La Roche Foundation.
This production is realized with the support of the Tax Shelter of the Belgian Federal Government, in collaboration with Casa Kafka Pictures.
Rosas is supported by the Flemish Community and the Flemish Community Commission (VGC).
The Program of the Program
Tanz Masterclass zu Il Cimento dell Armonia e dell inventione
Sunday August 25 from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Location: Signalstrasse 33, 4058 Basel
We warmly invite all professional dancers and people with a lot of dance experience to become part of a masterclass based on Il Cimento dell Armonia e dell inventione.
The two dancers Bostjan Antoncic and José Paulo Dos Santos will give the masterclass.
They will teach some of the movement vocabulary and work with the principles of the performance. So it is recommended you would watch the show on August 24.
Biography
Renowned far beyond Belgium and Europe, choreographer Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker studied dance in Brussels and New York and choreographed her first piece, "Asch", in 1980. In 1983, she founded the Rosas company in Brussels. Since then, the group has developed groundbreaking works that are characterised by a profound exploration of the relationship between dance and music and have been performed worldwide. From 1992 to 2007, Rosas was based at the Brussels opera house La Monnaie / De Munt, where Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker staged operas and large ensemble pieces, many of which were danced by other companies around the world. In 1995, she founded P.A.R.T.S., an institution for the international training of artists, in collaboration with the Brussels Opera. The Moroccan choreographer Radouan Mriziga, who lives in Belgium, also studied there. He has already worked with De Keersmaeker on the production "3ird5 @ W9rk" (2020) and is now developing "Il Cimento dell'Armonia e dell'Inventione" with her.
Radouan Mriziga is a choreographer from Marrakech based in Brussels. In his works, he explores the relation between space, architecture, the body and its connection to mind and intellect and, more recently, the use of performance as a tool to produce and share knowledge about forgotten and repressed narratives. From 2017 to 2021 he was an artist-in-residence at Kaaitheater in Brussels. From 2021 to 2024, he is an artist-in-residence at De Singel, in Antwerp, Belgium. In 2023, Radouan Mriziga was invited to present his piece AKAL in framework of Culturescapes Festival at Kaserne Basel.
Services
Childcare:
The meeting point is half an hour before the start of each performance in the festival centre on the Kasernenareal. Please register using the following form.
Saturday, 24 August from 6.30 – 9.00 p.m.
Sunday, 25 August from 4.00 – 9.00 p.m.