Love & Loss
De Keersmaeker / Forsythe / Raymond & Tregarthen
Coping with transience
In Love & Loss, our ballet company presents three moving dance performances in one evening. The programme opens with Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker's choreography to Bach's Second Cello Suite from the performance Mitten wir im Leben sind. Together, the dancer and cellist examine Bach's musical architecture. During the composition of his Cello Suites, Bach had to say goodbye to his wife Maria Barbara. He remarried Anna Magdalena Bach, who assisted him with his work until his death – including the Cello Suites.
This is followed by William Forsythe's Quintett, a choreography that is considered one of his absolute masterpieces. Forsythe created this lyrical waltz for five dancers as a final love letter to his terminally ill wife.
Finally, the company presents a new creation by choreographers Tiffany Tregarthen and David Raymond. This talented Canadian duo danced in many productions by their compatriot Crystal Pite. In Only Light Years Away, they explore the thresholds of the body and its transience, and celebrate the indestructibility of the human spirit.
ca. 2 hours, including break
Free post-show talk on Saturday 27 June in Opera Antwerp (cancelled)
Discover the full cast list per performance of Love & Loss here.
With the support of the Tax Shelter measure of the Belgian Federal Government.
The creators
Mitten wir im Leben sind
Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker
Choreography
Julien Monty
Creation and staging
An D'Huys
Costume design
Jan Vandenhouwe
Dramaturgy
Quintett
William Forsythe
Choreography
Dana Caspersen
Choreography
Stephen Galloway
Choreography
Jacopo Godani
Choreography
