« Rosas danst Rosas » de Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker / Rosas

A cult piece, Rosas danst Rosas develops an implacable mechanism where everyday gestures, extreme rigour, and vehemence compose a choreographic vertigo that continues to strike with its power, sensuality, and intensity. An incandescent quartet carried by a dazzling energy, still as captivating as it was at its creation.

Rosas danst Rosas, created in 1983, propelled Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker onto the international stage and established the foundations of her choreographic style: a rigorous structure, everyday gestures, and a continuous tension between framework and overflow.

This piece emerged in a context where American postmodern dance was already questioning the place of ordinary gestures and repetitiveness.

Built around the three elementary body positions — lying, sitting, standing — it deploys a writing of implacable precision while generating unparalleled emotion.

This tension between exactitude and flaw, between discipline and sensuality, has made Rosas danst Rosas a pivotal, radical work, often interpreted as a feminine manifesto.

The choreography impresses with its variations in intensity, tensions, and wild accelerations, bordering on paroxysm.

The four performers chain together swings, spirals, suspensions, and sudden reversals, as if traversed by forces — anger, desire, violence — that work their bodies, with freedom as a vanishing point.

, where hundreds of people learned and posted their version of its famous “chair dance,” have contributed to making this work timeless and almost universal.

Danced nearly 500 times by 28 performers from five generations, it has become one of the major benchmarks of European contemporary dance. Agnès Izrine Duration: 1h35 Category: Dance From 14 years old