GLA55

Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker’s choreography blends seamlessly with Philip Glass’s music, performed by Ictus and Bl!ndman. A new work that epitomises minimalism!

Having explored Brel’s legacy last season, Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker returns to American minimalism, turning for the first time to Philip Glass’s early works. The selected pieces – Music in Contrary Motion, Music in Fifths, Music in Similar Motion, Music with Changing Parts – date from 1969–70. They are performed by the Ictus ensemble, a long-standing collaborator, and Bl!ndman – two leading ensembles in contemporary music.

Based on progressive variation, these scores provide a magnificent backdrop to the hypnotic geometry of the choreographer’s work. The bodies of the Rosas dancers move in circles, spirals or ellipses, swept up in a mechanical rotation, to the rhythm of the trance orchestrated by the composer. GLA55 revisits a founding element of Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker’s work: the spellbinding pulse of the dialogue between repetition and unpredictability. 

Copresentation La Monnaie/De Munt, Kaaitheater

Season 2025·2026