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Impossible cohabitation on Bartok’s “Mikrokosmos” : he, a living Giacometti and her, twirling, fluid, a bit rebel in Gand’s austere library.

Impossible cohabitation on Bartok’s Mikrokosmos: he, like a living Giacometti, she, fluttering, fluid, slightly rebellious in Ghent’s stark library. In the second part, four girls jump on the Quatuor n°4. Turns, goat-like skips, side-steps, simple movements that blend in with or disrupt the rigour of the Hungarian composer and the architect Van de Velde

Belgian contemporary dance has built its universe around the reading of the major classical and modern scores. This relationship between immediacy of gesture and rhythmics is recurrent throughout Keersmaeker’s work. Wolfgang Kolb’s film, an adaptation for the screen of the work Rosas Bartok (1987), is proof of this compatibility that the young Belgian choreographer has raised to its loftiest level, without, however, making movement a pleonasm of measure. 

Source : Patrick Bossatti