Thierry de Mey & Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker - Fase (2002)

"Fase", which dates from the early 1980s, is one of Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker's first choreographies, whose company Rosas celebrated its 20th anniversary in 2002. Danced by the Flemish choreographer and her French-speaking counterpart Michèle Anne De Mey - now also a renowned choreographer - it is based on four pieces by the American minimalist composer Steve Reich: "Piano Phase", "Come Out", "Clapping Music" and "Violin Phase". From the canvas of violin or piano sounds, the voice of an American black activist or hand clapping, Reich - and De Keersmaeker - work on the repetition of short patterns that by micro-slipping change a phased structure into an out-of-phase pattern, a static balance into a dynamic imbalance. As for "Rosas danst Rosas", the minimalist director and composer Thierry De Mey has chosen significant architectures for the film version of the choreography: an old factory in Antwerp, the roof of a contemporary factory in Anderlecht, Rosas' rehearsal rooms in Forest or the crossing of two wooded paths in the Tervueren Park. Far from simply recording a filmed show, the dance here is magnified by the powers of cinema: framing, camera angles, editing... And a minimalist and repetitive work, which could have been feared austere, reveals an unsuspected dynamism. Choreography: Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker Dancers: Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, Michèle Anne De Mey Music: Steve Reich (Violin Phase, Piano Phase, Clapping Music, Come Out) Directors of Photography: Walther Vanden Ende (Piano Phase, based on the lighting design for the performance by Remon Fromont), Michel Houssiau (Come out & Violin Phase) Remon Fromont (Clapping Music) Editing: Rudi Maerten Camera: Chris Renson, Pierre Gordower, Jean-Jacques Mathy, Aliocha Van der Avoort, Renaat Lambeets Mixage: Thomas Gauder Assistant to the director: Anne Van Aerschot Produced by Avila & Sophimages