ANNE TERESA DE KEERSMAEKER-ROSAS / PHILIP GLASS / ICTUS & BL!NDMAN
GLA55
10 movements on the music of Philip Glass
Approx. 55 min
With GLA55, Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker has decided, for the first time ever, to work with pieces from the beginning of Philip Glass’ career. Led by six dancers and musicians from Ictus and Bl!ndman, this piece in ten movements unfolds as a living geometry of repetitions, rotations, and spins, pushed to the point of fully losing one’s bearings.
In GLA55, Keersmaeker returns to one of the foundational gestures of her career: delving into minimalist music as deeply as possible to generate a powerful choreography. In 1982, she created Fase, set to Steve Reich’s early compositions, which laid the foundations for an oeuvre that remained closely attuned to this style of music and its principles of repetition and variation. Today, for the first time ever, as an extension of her relationship with the minimalist music of that period, she has choreographed Philip Glass’ early works. Composed between 1969 and 1970, Music in Contrary Motion, Music in Fifths, Music in Similar Motion, and Music with Changing Parts belong to a decisive period in Glass’ career, during which he invented a continuous musical flow based on the repetition, displacement, and transformation of short, hypnotic musical phrases. Keersmaeker has found in these works the ideal way to continue her efforts to push this limited language to its limits, to the point of exhausting it. In circles, spirals, ellipses, and whirls, dance here becomes geometry in motion. Through the very act of repetition, each gesture strives for the infinite.
Standing performance
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Practical information
Grande Halle
Metro
Line 5 - Porte de Pantin station
Tramway
Line 3b - Porte de Pantin station
Bus
Bus 75, 151 - Porte de Pantin stop
Bike GH
Vélib' docking points
Bike racks
Electric bikes
A battery container is located in front of the Grande Halle.
Parking
Q-Park
Philharmonie
Q-Park
Cité de la Musique - La Villette
Q-Park
Cité de la Musique - Conservatoire
Parking
Cité des Sciences
- Standing performance
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- The following are prohibited: all glass containers, sharp or blunt objects, weapons of any kind or replicas, animals except guide dogs, large bags and luggage, and batteries for electric bicycles and scooters.
- Security staff have sole discretion over which items may or may not be brought into the venue.
- Food may not be brought into the performance venue.
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