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Julio Galan, Rado, 1996, oil on canvas, 39 '/2" x 31 ';,"

DudBAM 1997 Next Wave Festival is sponsored by PHILIP MORRIS

COMPANIES INC.

Brooklyn Academy of MusicBruce C. RatnerCha irman of the Boa rd

Harvey LichtensteinPresident and Executive Producer

presents

(Forest)

Running time:approximately twohours including oneintermission.

BAM Opera HouseOctober 22, 24 & 25, 1997 at 7:30pm

Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker / Rosas

Choreography Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker

Created and danced by Marion Ballester, Iris Bouche, Farooq Chaudhry,Kosi Hidama, Martin Kilvady, Oliver Koch, Sarah Ludi, Cynthia Loemij,Samantha Van Wissen, Rehearsal director Suman Hsu

Music performed by The Duke QuartetLouisa Fuller (violin), Rick Koster (violin), Ivan McCready (cello),John Metcalfe (viola) and guest artists Helen Kamminga (viola),Robert Woollard (cello) and Ursula Hesse (mezzo)

Opening night is sponsored by Philip Morris Companies Inc. and theConsulate General of Belgium

Special support is provided by The Harkness Foundation for Dance andThe Joyce Mertz-Gilmore Foundation.

BAM thanks the Theater Development Fund for supporting this presentation.

Woud Tippeke, a filmChoreography and dance Anne Teresa De KeersmaekerDirection and music Thierry De MeyCollaboration to the music (instrumental part) Fran~ois DeppeCollaboration to the music (informatics IRCAM) Serge LemoutonCello Ivan McCready

Lyric Suite by Alban Berg

Intermission

Verkliirte Nacht by Arnold Schonberg

Wesendonck lied nr. 3 111m Treibhaus" by Richard Wagnerarranged for sextet by Fran~ois DeppeSoloist Ursula Hesse

Music analysis Georges-Elie OctorsCostumes Rudy Sabounghi assisted by Nathalie DouxfilsSet design Gilles Aillaud, Anne Teresa De KeersmaekerLight design Vinicio Cheli (Verk/arte Nacht) , Anne Teresa De Keersmaekerassisted by Guy PeetersPhotography Herman Sorgeloos

Technical director Luc GalleStage direction Nicolas SouffriauLighting Guy PeetersSound engineer Alexandre FostierWardrobe Nathalie DouxfilsProduction assistant Anne Van Aerschot

Premiere: December 19, 1996, Sevilla (Teatro Central)

Production Rosas & De Munt/ La MonnaieCo-production Theatre de la Ville, ParisIn collaboration with Teatro Central, Sevilla

The film Tippeke is realized with the support of IRCAM

Rosas has been the company in residence at La Monnaie sinceJanuary 1, 1992.

Rosas receives a subsidy from the Ministry of the Flemish CommunityAdministration for the Arts and is supported by the National Lottery.

Rosas is Cultural Ambassador of Flanders since January 1, 1993.

Anne TeresaDe Keersmaekerand Rosas

Portrait of Anne TeresaDe Keersmaeker byHerman Sorge/oos

In the wake of Fase, which by 1982 had already been presented in Belgium,the Netherlands and Great Britain, Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker foundedRosas in 1983. Her company's debut creation was Rosas danst Rosas (withmusic by Thierry De Mey and Peter Vermeersch). Their first tour took themfrom Belgium to Spain via the Netherlands, Switzerland, France and Italy.

With the addition of a new work, Elena's Aria, Rosas toured Europe againin 1984. After 1985, there was a year devoted to touring Fase (four move­ments to the music of Steve Reich accompanied by the ensemble Steve Reichand Musicians) and another tour with Rosas danst Rosas. In 1986, Bartok /Aantekeningen was presented together with Rosas danst Rosas in Switzerland,Canada, England, Italy, Mexico and the United States (Rosas danst Rosaswas presented as part of the 1986 Next Wave Festival).

In 1987, Rosas produced two works. The first was Heiner Muller's triptychVerkommenes Uter / Medeamaterial / Landschaft mit Argonauten, directedby Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker. The second, Mikrokosmos-Monument /Selbstportrat mit Riech und Riley (und Chopin ist auch dabei) / In zartfliessender Bewegung-Quatuor Nr. 4 was choreographed to music by Bartokand Ligeti (performed live, according to her most consistent demand). Elena'sAria came to BAM for the 1987 Next Wave Festival. Ottone, Ottone, basedon Monteverdi's L'lncoronazione de Poppea was created in 1988.

At that time Rosas' work began to attract many international prizes. In 1988,Rosas danst Rosas was given a Bessie Award. The Eve du Spectacle, a prizefrom the critics awarded in Belguim by the Association of Theater Journalistsfollowed in 1989 as did a Dance Award for Best Foreign Production given by

the 21st Dance Society of Japan to Mikrokosmos... The video Hopp/a, madeby Wolfgang Kolb featuring choreography set to music by Bartok, was award­ed the Solo d'Oro (first prize of the 5th International Festival for Video andTelevision in Italy) and the Grand Prix Video Danse 1989 and Best StudioAdaption of Stage Choreography awards at the Festival of Sete in France.

1990 saw the creation of Stella set to music by Gybrgy Ligeti and Achter/and-November 90 to music by Gybrgy Ligeti and Eugene Ysaye performed liveby Rolf Hind and Irvine Arditti. 1990 was also the year in which Jean-LucDucourt, a member of Rosas since 1987, took up a new position-from Stellathrough Mozart Concert Arias in 1992, he served as Ms. De Keersmaker'sassistant in the artistic leadership of the company, sharing with her the workof conceiving, directing and, in some cases, designing lighting for productions.

The following year Achter/and and Stella went on tour-the latter was giventhe 1991 London Dance and Performance Award. Meanwhile, Ottone, Ottonebecame the starting point for a video made by Walter Verdin under the titleOttone, Ottone / 1991 .

In 1992, Rosas became the resident company of De Munt, where ERTS wascreated, Rosas danst Rosas and Achter/and revived, and the film Ottone,Ottone/ 1991 screened, as was Peter Greenway's film Rosa featuring AnneTeresa De Keersmaeker's choreography to music by Bartok. Rosa received twoprizes from the Dance Screen in Frankfurt-the prize for screenplay adaptionand the actual Dance Screen Award. It was also picked for the Venice Festival.

Photo of Elena's Aria byHerman Sorge/oos

Within the framework of Rosas' establishment in De Munt, the companycreated Mozart Concert Arias, un mota di gioia at the Avignon Festival.Similarly, a dance to works by Johann Sebastian Bach was made for theHolland Festival signaling Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker's return to the stageas a dancer.

Anne TeresaDe Keersmaekerand Rosas continued

In 1992, the Association for the Advancement of Flemish Theater Criticismawarded Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker the Thersites Prize and Achter/andplayed the BAM Next Wave Festival.

The 1993 Holland Festival invited the company to present works from therepertory and a new production, Toccata, danced to the music of J.S. Bach.Achter/and was filmed in 1993 and received a number of awards the followingyear. The Festival Octobre En Normandie featured six Rosas productions in1993. A tour with stops in Pert, Hong Kong, Tokyo and Wellington followed.

Kinok made its debut at the KunstenFESTIVAL des Arts in 1994 featuring astage version of the Grosse Fuge from ERTS for a new cast and new chore­ography to music written for the occasion by Thierry De Mey. The collab­oration led to a new piece, Amor constante mas alia de /a muerte.

In 1995, a new production Erwartung / Verk/arte Nacht with the music ofArnold Schonberg had its premiere at La Monnaie. Presented in three sections,the work featured choreography by Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker for Verk/arteNacht. A new Rosas/ La Monnaie initiative, PARTS (Performing Arts Researchand Training Studio), was launched in Brussels in September of 1995. UnderMs. De Keersmaeker's artistic direction, the school offers a three-year curriculum.

Woud premiered in December, 1996 and the film Rosas danst Rosas, directedby Thierry De Mey, made its debut earlier this year. In November, a new Rosasproduction, Percussion Evening (working title), will be staged for the NationalOpera House La Monnaie in Brussels featuring dances from Unknownessby Thierry De Mey. The music, performed by the Ictus Ensemble will includea new piece for piano-percussion quartet by Finnish composer MagnusLindberg and compositions by Steve Reich.

In 1998, Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker will make her debut as an operadirector at La Monnaie with Bartok's B/uebeard.

The Duke Quartet

left Achterland, be/ow: Woudphotos: Herman Sorge/oos

Acclaimed by audiences and press for their powerful performances both liveand recorded, The Duke Quartet has established itself as one of Britain'smost exciting chamber music groups. At home with music of all genres, theirapproachable style has won them a considerable following around the world.

Signed exclusively to Collins Classics, their first release, featuring works byBarber, Dvorak and Glass (Collins CD 13862), won worldwide criticalacclaim and was selected at the 1995 Cannes Classical Music Awards asone of the world's top three debut CDs of the year. Their second release was theculmination of a close working relationship with the renowned South Africancomposer Kevin Volans. The result of this collaboration, the new 5th StringQuartet Dancers on a Plane and a reworking of the 4th String Quartet TheRamannjan Notebooks (Collins CD 14172) met with similar acclaim.

The Quartet's work has ranged from performing their own arrangements forChannel 4 documentaries to appearing in New York on the David Lettermanshow with The Pretenders. Their skills have been equally coveted in thedance world. A world tour with Rosas in 1996 and the London premiereof their composition The Thrill is Gone commissioned by the Arts Councilfor Union Dance are among their recent accomplishments. Other notableengagements include the Ives Festival at the Barbican with two concerts thatwere both broadcast on BBC Radio 3, and performances in Russia wherethey played Volan's String Quartet NO.5 with Siobhan Davies Dance Company.

Trinity College at Oxford provides the Quartet with a residency enablingthem to engage in concentrated rehearsals and pass on their enthusiasmfor chamber music to students at the college.

Their recordings for Collins Classics have continued with a disc of Russianquartets by Tchaikovsky, Shostakovich and Schnittke (Collins CD 14502),and the release last year of Baltic Elegy (Collins CD 14752) with music byArvo Part, Peteris Vasks and Erkki-Sven Tuur.