"Set to Steve Reich's Music for 18 Musicians... [Rain] looks like the masterpiece towards which De Keersmaeker's 20-year career has been heading."
—The Guardian (UK)

Rain
Rosas

Choreographed by

Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker
Music by Steve Reich
Music Performed by Ictus and Synergy Vocals

VENUE
BAM Howard Gilman Opera House

DATE/ TIME
Nov 12 at 7pm*
Nov 13—15 at 7:30pm

TICKETS
Tickets: $25, 50

DESCRIPTION
A gorgeous logic prevails in Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker's Rain, a minimalist dance with a flagrantly emotional heart. Propelled by Steve Reich's 1976 breakthrough work, Music for 18 Musicians, ten dancers fill the stage with spiraling, rushing movement as changeable as the weather. Constructed around a sensuous cycle of eleven chords, Reich's music is an hour-long harmonic tour-de-force, performed live by Brussels-based percussion ensemble Ictus.

Last seen at the 2001 Next Wave Festival with Drumming, also set to Reich's music, De Keersmaeker has cast aside her recent use of text, choosing instead to inflect her signature rigor with the passions inherent in pure movement. The overall effect is patently dramatic. Dancers on opposite sides of the stage, a gulf of chaos between them, suddenly fall into identical step. Some unnamed thing, a cosmic occurrence perhaps, invades a delicately crystallizing group, builds to a furious squall, and then abruptly, remarkably, grows eerily calm. Frantic couplings resonate with unspoken tensions. As always with De Keersmaeker, the décor—in this instance a half-circle of dangling ropes, soft pink and beige costumes, and a wash of translucent pastel light—subtly enhances the work's ardent tone.

*2003 Next Wave Gala.
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Set and lighting design by Jan Versweyveld
Costume design by Dries Van Noten

A production of Rosas and De Munt/La Monnaie. Co-produced by Théâtre de la Ville, Paris.