Fase
Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker
In 2026, Dance Reflections by Van Cleef & Arpels is supporting Esplanade - Theatres on the Bay for the presentation of Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker's Fase.
Fase, Four Movements to the Music of Steve Reich, the very first work by choreographer Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, premiered in 1982. Fase comprises three duets and one solo, choreographed to four repetitive compositions by the American minimalist Steve Reich. Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker uses the structure of Reich’s music to develop an independent movement idiom that does not merely illustrate the music, but enriches it with a new dimension. Both the music and the dance explore the same founding principle of “phase shifting” through tiny variations: movements begin in perfect synchrony, and then gradually start slipping and sliding, resulting in an ingenious play of continuously changing forms and patterns.
Having always danced Fase herself, Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker now passes it on to two new dancers.
Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker
In 2026, Dance Reflections by Van Cleef & Arpels Festival presents EXIT ABOVE, after the tempest by Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker in collaboration with NYU Skirball.
Dance Reflections also supports the next creation Gla55 of the artist and the presentation of Il Cimento dell’Armonia e dell’Inventione by Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker and Radouan Mriziga.
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Esplanade – Theatres on the Bay
In 2026, Dance Reflections by Van Cleef & Arpels is supporting Esplanade – Theatres on the Bay for the presentation of Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker's Fase.
