EXIT ABOVE
With Clinton Stringer
In 2026, Dance Reflections by Van Cleef & Arpels™ is organizing, in collaboration with the China Shanghai International Arts Festival, the workshop EXIT ABOVE taught by Clinton Stringer a Rosas dancer and the rehearsal director, as part of the Dance Reflections by Van Cleef & Arpels™ Festival in Shanghai.
Enter the world of the 2023 creation EXIT ABOVE by Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker (Rosas's director).
This open class will explore some of the starting points for the creation of EXIT ABOVE (2023) by Anne Teresa De Keersmaker and her company, Rosas. As is often the case, music is a big source of inspiration for De Keersmaker. For EXIT ABOVE, she worked with singer/songwriter Meskerem Mees and music producer Jean-Marie Aerts to create a score deeply rooted in pop music. Mees worked within the world of blues, as one of the origins of pop music, while Aerts played with techno beats. Both are deeply rooted in pulse and so a lot of the dance material created for this piece has a connection to this pulse - from the most basic human pulse of the heartbeat to the simple rhythm of walking all the way through to more complex coordinations that sit in the beat.
The class will explore some walking dances as well as teach some of the movement material set to the techno rhythms.
In this workshop, Clinton Stringer teaches a section of his solo and guide participants through the creative principles behind it, inviting them to develop their own interpretation.
Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker
Dance Reflections by Van Cleef & Arpels is presenting Rosas danst Rosas and EXIT ABOVE- after the tempest at the Festival in Shanghai and Il Cimento dell'Armonia e dell'Inventione at the Festival in Sydney, in collaboration with its international partners.
About the partner
China Shanghai International Arts Festival
In 2026, Dance Reflections by Van Cleef & Arpels is presenting seventeen performances in collaboration with the China Shanghai International Arts Festival as part of the Dance Reflections by Van Cleef & Arpels Festival in Shanghai.
