Rosas Repertory - Rosas danst Rosas

“In this workshop I will take you back as early as 1983, the premiere of “Rosas Danst Rosas”. This piece has been toured throughout the world staying successful over time. There was an intensive world-tour in 1992, and this is when I joined in.
It has become one of my strongest experiences as a performer and as a person in general. The challenge of the minimal repetitive movement, interpretation, dancing complex structures with four people together, are interesting topics to me - and most of all a pleasure to dance! "Listening and breathing together, feeling each others energy…”
The actual material sits at the heart of the movement work of Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker. The simplicity of the basic material, the exciting dynamic range and the complextity of the structures make it very suited to learn and teach.

“Rosas Danst Rosas” consists of four parts each representing a moment in a day: sleeping/waking up, working, afternoon and evening/nightlife. The movements are drawn from everyday observations, the hand through the hair, letting the head fall, looking to the side. It is an interaction between formal elements and a language full with emotion that gives the movements its intensity. We'll work on the first three parts:
1 floor material (a slow and a quick phrase)
2 on chairs (a challenging complex structure)
3 in space (unison with variations).
As the piece is made and danced by women the material is quite feminine. I do think the material is also interesting and meaningful to men. Some adjustments in movement may be required though.

You will need flat comfortable shoes, basket shoes, Reebok dance shoes, or just a street shoe with a flat and flexible sole. The workshop doesn't include a warming up, so prepare yourself before!”



Contemporary Technique
Begin to move....it’s never too late

We’ll experience a wide palette of different elements in contemporary dance: exercises for body-consciousness, training, improvisation, composition. ‘The full experience’. Every class we’ll start with a warm-up, based on exercises coming from contemporary technique and improvisation, going through the whole body. Later on, we’ll learn a movement phrase. With that phrase we'll then start to play around and apply some composition tools. You’ll be working solo, but also in duos, trios or small groups. Enjoy moving the others and you’ll be moved yourself!



Samantha Van Wissen
After following an education at the ‘Rotterdamse Dans Academie’, Samantha joined Rosas/Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker in 1991. Until 1997 she participated in many creations and performances, such as “Ertz”, “Mozart Concert Arias”, “Woud” and also toured repertory pieces (“Rosas Danst Rosas”, “Achterland”, “Mikrokosmos”). Since 1997, she has worked with Cie ZOO/Thomas Hauert, doing most of the creations and tours (“Cows In Space”, “Pop-up Songbook”, “Verosimile”, “Jetzt”, “<5>”, “Walking Oscar”).
She has given workshops at P.A.R.T.S. and others places, for example as a teacher for amateur contemporary dance classes.