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Rain
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| When Rain, created by the Rosas Company in 2001, entered the Paris Opera BaIIet's repertoire ten years later, Director of Dance Brigitte Lefèvre brought a whoIe dimension of Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker s world to the Paris Opera, giving dancers and audiences alike the possibiIity of undertaking a unique visuaI and auditory kinaesthetic experience. Since the 1980s, the choreographer has continually played a key roIe in the world of contemporary art, marking the emerging FIemish scene with the imprint of an original language initiated with the New York avant-garde and borne by a quest for composition in all its forms. ParalleI to her intense theatrical work, she has also developed an art of minimaIist purity through skiIfully dynamic choreography seeking "to burst into Iife in a kaleidoscope of perpetuaIly changing forms. Set to Music for Eighteen Musicians, Steve Reich's major score composed in 1976, Rain embodies the culmination of a dance form drawing its own spatial poIyphony from the mathematicaI principIes of musical composition, a polyphony which aIso materiaIises on the floor, where the infinite trajectories of the dancers criss-cross Iike brightly coIoured pick-up sticks. Music and dance become one untiI, breathless and exhausted, they discover the motifs of an exhilaratingly profound work concealed within their own inner mysteries where freedom and constraint, rigour and profusion, unity and reduction all rhyme with each other. Rain aIso shares genetic links with other Rosas works. The choreographer Iikes to weave the discreet threads of an uninterrupted dialogue between them. Thus it is that Rain forms a diptych with Drumming, a long piece created in 1998 to another score by Steve Reich, which embraces formats at once symmetrical and yet opposing: one part alI spirals, the other more anguIar. In the same way, in its work on breathing, conveyed by the ebb and fIow of the music, Rain evokes some of the Iiterary materials used for In ReaI Time, a dramatic work created in 2000 and inspired by Kirsty Gunn's novel Rain, which describes a young woman s attempt to save her drowning brother. As such, this piece offers an intimate view of the thought mechanisms at work in Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker s creative process. One thinks of a rain dance that is both a festivaI of torrential, life-infused motion and a timeless, incantatory quest for the golden number and its perfect proportions. |
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