Rosas Repertory – Desh
personal freedom

We will learn pieces of the trio version created in 2005 by Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker, Salva Sanchis and myself. Having been part of the creation process I will focus on letting the participants taste the sources of this work and the inspiration where it comes from.

The pleasure of experiencing movement, its emotional textures and all its differentiated qualities of volume, space, timbres and explosions will be in the centre of my teaching.
The aim of the workshop is to gain a deeper understanding the style, the philosophy, the body of ROSAS‘ and Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker‘s work and to develop personal freedom within the rigour of this work.


Marion Ballester
Since her education at CNDC in Angers, from 1987 to 1989, Marion Ballester leads, in parallel, a triple career as choreographer, performer and teacher. After having started her career as a dancer in 1989 with Dominique Petit, she was engaged by Phillipe Decouflé and later joined Rosas, both as performers, until she in 1992 left to study in New York at the Trisha Brown Studios. From then on she started elaborating her own choreographic research, founding her own company and creating her own work; "Blue Mathematics", then "Unconscious Landscape" (2000), project dance/sculpture/video for 4 dancers inspired by the work of Louise Bourgeois; "Intimez-moi" (2001); "Bord à Bord" (2002); and finally "Neptune" (2004) created in the frame of the Festival des Antipodes in Brest, a performance for five dancers on the music of Philippe Manoury.

She went on to become the assistant of Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker for the creation of "Once", in 2002., than she is danced the trio "Desh" with the Flemish Choreographer and Salva Sanchis. Between 2007 and 2009 she worked on the triptych "Trois solis pour Marion" with three collaborators: Benoît Lachambre, Osman Kassen Khelili and Odile Duboc.
In 2010/2011, Raimund Hoghe engaged her for a new creation "Si je meurs, laissez le balcon ouvert".
In parallel Marion Ballester never ceases to deepen the pursuit of a practice of pedagogy, in the midst of different educational structures and professional dance companies: at CND-Paris, at P.A.R.T.S or the companies of Angelin Preljojac, Philippe Découflé and Jean-Claude Gallota.