"D'un soir un jour"

It is an energy-charged game of contradictions that turns around appropriation, re-working and reversal. In the process dancing corresponds to the complicated rhythmic shifts of sound and it reacts to its bight colours, exuberance and wealth of imagination with simple, relaxed, vivacious but then brittle movements. The virtuoso weaving together of a magical musical world with brilliant dance sequences is the speciality of the Belgian, Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, a master of contemporary choreography. In her most recent work, " D’un soir un jour", the sonic worlds of Claude Debussy and Igor Stravinsky meet compositions by George Benjamin who composed an orchestral symphony specially for Keersmaeker's Company "Rosas": "Dance Figures". The music, as mysterious as it is stirring flows around complex choreographic compositions that Keersmaeker developed along with the New York Wooster Group and with young choreographers David Hernandez and Johanne Saunier.

The world in " D’un soir un jour" is in partially muted but always highly poetic polychrome: blue and bronze; yellow and green; red and orange. She resurrects Vaclav Nijinsky and leads through T.S. Eliot's "Waste Land", Stravinsky's "Fireworks" and Debussy's "Jeux" to Benjamin's modern-day sonic lightning.