Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker

After studying at the MUDRA dance school and the Tisch School of the Arts in New York, in 1980 Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker created "Asch", her first choreographic work. 1982 saw the premiere of "Fase", four movements to the music of Steve Reich. In 1983 De Keersmaeker set up her Rosas company at the same time as creating the work "Rosas danst Rosas". The focus of her work is the relationship between dance and music.

She has used the music of composers from several periods. While Rosas was resident at La Monnaie (1992-2007), De Keersmaeker directed a number of operas. In 1995 she established the P.A.R.T.S. dance school in association with La Monnaie. The relationship between dance and words is another thread running through her work. Her recent productions have been characterised by cooperation with visual artists Ann Veronica Jannsens and Michel François. Her most recent work is the diptych "En Atendant" (2010) and "Cesena" (2011), set to music of the Ars Subtilior. Both works premiered at the festival d’Avignon, upon sunset and sunrise respectively. In "A choreographer's Score", published by Rosas and Mercatrofonds in May 2012, she offers wide-ranging insights into the making of the four early works (1981-86) in a conversation with the performance theorist and musicologist Bojana Cvejic.