Also scheduled on
September 4, 2020 11:00 / 17:00 / 18:30
September 5, 2020 11:00 / 17:00 / 18:30

The solo Violin Phase is the third of the four movements of Fase, Four Movements to the Music of Steve Reich, choreographer Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker’s very first performance, premiered in 1982.
Fase comprises three duets and one solo, choreographed to four repetitive compositions by the American minimalist Steve Reich.
De Keersmaeker uses the structure of Reich’s music to develop an independent movement idiom that doesn’t merely illustrate the music but also adds a new dimension to it.
Both the music and the dance start from the principle of phase shifting through tiny variations: movements that are initially perfectly synchronous gradually start slipping and sliding, resulting in an ingenious play of continuously changing forms and patterns.
The dancer (in Florence Yuika Hashimoto / Soa Ratsifandrihana) moves in circular patterns with strict repetitions of a single turning, twisting phrase that brilliantly plays off the music’s formalism and drama.

choreography: Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker
danced by Yuika Hashimoto / Soa Ratsifandrihana
concept: Thierry De Mey
music: Steve Reich – Violin Phase (1967)
violin (recording): Shem Guibbory
artistic coordination and planning: Anne Van Aerschot
technical management: Marlies Jacques
technician: Quentin Mae

Violin Phase was created at the Dance Department of New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, first performed in April 1981 at the Festival of Early Modern Dance, Purchase, New York.

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