Dansehallerne is extremely proud to present one of the world’s greatest choreographers, Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker during OPENINGS, our new expansive festival for dance. OPENINGS is the first event in Dansehallerne’s brand-new home in the Carlsberg City District.
For the first time ever, audiences will have the opportunity to experience the iconic performance Fase, Four Movements to the Music of Steve Reich, on Danish soil. The performance premiered in 1982, and with this early work, dancer and choreographer Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker burst onto the contemporary artistic scene.
Fase comprises three duets and one solo, choreographed to four repetitive compositions by the American minimalist Steve Reich. De Keersmaeker uses the structure of Reich’s music to develop an independent movement idiom that doesn’t merely illustrate the music but also adds a new dimension to it. Both the music and the dance start from the principle of phase shifting through tiny variations: movements that are initially perfectly synchronous gradually start slipping and sliding. The result is an ingenious play of continuously changing forms and patterns.
Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker has always danced Fase herself. In 2018, she passed it on to two new dancers for the first time in the history of the work.
OPENINGS
OPENINGS is Dansehallerne’s new, expansive festival for dance. With the festival, we open up for top-class international performances and strong national talents. For a wide spectrum of dancing bodies: older bodies, smaller bodies, bodies of different shapes and colors. For the iconic and the surprising. For other perspectives. OPENINGS celebrates the joy of dance and makes dance accessible to everyone.
Annual pass holders and members have limited ticket capacity and thus booking for OPENINGS. As always, ticket booking is on a first-come, first-served basis.