Artist talk Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker & Tale Dolven

Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker and Tale Dolven in conversation about Fase and the value, peculiarities and challenges of dance repertoire

Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker was 21 years old when she immediately hit the limelight with the audacity and vision with which she created the performance Fase, Four Movements to the Music of Steve Reich. It was the start of a now more than 40-year impressive career.

At the end of the festival Body of Work - Unfolding Fase, curator Delphine Hesters goes back to the creation of the performance in 1982 in a conversation with the choreographer. They reflect on the value, peculiarities and challenges of repertoire and passing on dance to new generations of dancers.

Tale Dolven - who danced the performance with De Keersmaeker for 12 years - joins the conversation. Especially for Body of Work, they will dance Come Out again for the first time since 2017, as a prelude to the conversation.

Combine the conversation with a dip in the festival's afternoon programme (continuous from 14:00 to 18:00) or with the evening performance at 20:30.

PRACTICAL

➤ Saturday 08.03
➤ 18:30 - 19:45

Come Out by Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker and Tale Dolven
Delphine Hesters in conversation with Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker and Tale Dolven

➤ STUK Soetezaal
➤ Free (without reservation)
➤ Language: NL and ENG

Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker

In 1980, after studying dance at Mudra School in Brussels and Tisch School of the Arts in New York, Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker created Asch, her first choreographic work. Two years later came the premiere of Fase, Four Movements to the Music of Steve Reich. De Keersmaeker established the dance company Rosas in Brussels in 1983, while creating the work Rosas danst Rosas. Since these breakthrough pieces, her choreography has been grounded in a rigorous and prolific exploration of the relationship between dance and music. She has created with Rosas a wide-ranging body of work engaging the musical structures and scores of several periods, from early music to contemporary and popular idioms. Her choreographic practice also draws formal principles from geometry, numerical patterns, the natural world, and social structures to offer a unique perspective on the body’s articulation in space and time. In 1995 De Keersmaeker established the school P.A.R.T.S. (Performing Arts Research and Training Studios) in Brussels in association with De Munt/La Monnaie.

Tale Dolven © Anne Van Aerschot

Tale Dolven

Tale Dolven (1981) is a Norwegian dancer. She danced with Rosas and Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker between 2005 and 2018. She has also worked with TG Stan, Kris Verdonck, Benjamin Vandewalle, Doris Uhlich and Igor Shyshko. Currently Tale performs with Fieldworks and Nature Theatre of Oklahoma. For 2024/2025 she created an extensive work around the Beethoven piano sonatas, in collaboration with Alain Franco. She studied at PARTS in Brussels and KHIO in Oslo, Norway.