EXIT ABOVE (Creation 2023)
Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker / Rosas
Bach, Mozart, Schoenberg – and now pop? Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker masters the dialogue between music and movement like no other and, in her latest choreography, she explores the emergence of pop music from the spirit of the blues. Taking My Walking Blues in the version by legendary musician Robert Johnson (1936) as her starting point, the up-and-coming singer-songwriter Meskerem Mees has teamed up with producer Jean-Marie Aerts and guitarist and dancer Carlos Garbin to create interpretations of ‘walking songs’. The piece travels through the musical history of the 20th century as it does so: from Delta blues to today’s melodically and rhythmically reliable pop. In keeping with her conviction that ‘my walking is my dancing’, De Keersmaeker elaborates from simple steps a space-filling choreography for twelve dancers. She remains true to the ‘walking’ theme: on the threshold from major to minor, the image of the romantic lonely wanderer finds its place as much as the power and political potential of an unarmed group marching forward together.
A joint project with Wiener Festwochen.
