ANNE TERESA DE KEERSMAEKER
Drumming XXL
1h
The irresistible rhythm of the music propels the dancers into a choreography that seems complex yet insidiously simple.
An emblematic work by Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, Drumming was created in August 1998 to a composition by Steve Reich. The irresistible rhythm of the music propels the dancers into a choreography that seems complex yet insidiously simple. Like the music, the dance starts from a single phrase of movement, explored exhaustively and tirelessly over the course of an hour through countless combinations, variations and transformations, inverting it, speeding it up and slowing it down. In the tradition of the monumental projects initiated by the Conservatoire since 2019, Drumming XXL brings together 70 performers from École des Sables – the legendary dance school founded in Toubab Dialaw, Senegal by Germaine Acogny – P.A.R.T.S. – the school founded by Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker – and the Conservatoire national supérieur de musique et de danse de Paris. Dancers from the various schools and ensembles worked on a new version, rethinking several sections of the original piece, making their own transformations of the original material, composing duets or trios, and using the underlying structures of the original choreography to create other constructions.
Free standing.
This project has been labelled by Paris 2024 in the framework of the Olympiade Culturelle.
Partners
Choreography Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker (1998)
Music Steve Reich “Drumming
Reassembled by Clinton Stringer
Transmission Frank Gizycki, Cynthia Loemij, Moya Michael, Laura Maria Poletti, Clinton Stringer, Sue-Yeon Youn
With dancers from École des sables, P.A.R.T.S. and Conservatoire de Paris
Production Conservatoire national supérieur de musique et de danse de Paris and P.A.R.T.S / Performing Arts Research and Training Studios (Brussels)
Coproduction Conservatoire national supérieur de musique et de danse de Paris, P.A.R.T.S, Maison de la Culture de Seine-Saint-Denis (MC93), Rencontres chorégraphiques internationales de Seine-Saint-Denis, La Villette (Paris), Europalia Festival (Belgium)
In partnership with École des sables (Senegal)
With the support of Dance Reflections by Van Cleef & Arpels and the Cléo Thiberge Edrom Foundation
With the support of Rosas (Belgium), Centre national de la danse (Paris), Musée Art & Histoire (Brussels)
This project has received a grant from Paris 2024 as part of the Cultural Olympiad, and is supported by the Institut Français.
It will be presented on May 31, 2024 at Place de la Bourse in Brussels as part of the ‘europalia Art2gether’ festival, in partnership with ‘EU2024BE’, the Belgian Presidency of the Council of the European Union and the City of Brussels.
Practical information
Espace Chapiteaux
Métro
Ligne 5 - Porte de Pantin (+10 min. marche)
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Ligne 7 - Corentin Cariou (+10 min. marche)
Métro
Ligne 7 - Porte de la Villette (+10 min. marche)
Tram
Ligne 3b - Porte de la Villette (+15 min. marche)
Bus
Lignes 139, 150, 152 : Porte de la Villette
Parking
Q-Park
Philharmonie
Q-Park
Cité de la Musique - La Villette
Q-Park
Cité de la Musique - Conservatoire
Parking
Cité des Sciences
- Placement libre debout
- Restauration sur place avec le foodtruck Coup d’Jus (jus maison avec des gaufres, granités, boissons chaudes…)
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