A Love Supreme

A quartet created by Salva Sanchis and Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, A Love Supreme is based on John Coltrane’s eponymous album. This collaboration, started in 2005, comprises a meeting between two choreographers who share the same fascination for an iconic piece of music. In A Love Supreme, Coltrane and his musicians deployed a deceptively simple musical structure to allow for a complete freedom of improvisation, continuously pushing the boundaries of every musical register. This freedom sees a literal translation into dance: for this performance, the choreographers accept the challenge of blending improvisation and composition into a seamless whole. For this new version, Sanchis and De Keersmaeker rewrote their 2005 piece to be danced by four young, male dancers. Their energetic interpretation embodies and mirrors the continued vitality of Coltrane’s music.

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Credits

choreography Salva Sanchis & Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker | danced by José Paulo Dos Santos, Bilal El Had / Robin Haghi, Jason Respilieux & Thomas Vantuycom | original version created with Cynthia Loemij, Moya Michael, Salva Sanchis & Igor Shyshko | music John Coltrane, A Love Supreme | recording tenor saxophone, vocals: John Coltrane, piano: McCoy Tyner, bass: Jimmy Garrison, drums: Elvin Jones | acknowledgement, resolution, pursuance & psalm © Coltrane, j., © Jowcol music, inc. (universal music publ. n.v.) | light design Jan Versweyveld | lighting rework Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker & Luc Schaltin | costumes Anne-Catherine Kunz | production Rosas | co-production De Munt/La Monnaie (Brussel/Bruxelles) | thanks to Erik Bogaerts, Jeroen Van Herzeele | world premiere 23.02.2017, kaaitheater (Brussel/Bruxelles) | rosas is supported by de Vlaamse gemeenschap