Partita 2 _ Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, Boris Charmatz, Amandine Beyer

In her opus of over forty pieces, De Keersmaeker had never composed a duet with a man in which she would dance herself. The encounter between Boris Charmatz and herself is an invitation to stray from De Keersmaeker’s meticulous construction together with the whimsical and boyish, and at times titanic improvisatory flights of Charmatz. The complementary duet breaks open with a third partner, the violinist, Amandine Beyer (or, alternately, Georges van Dam), whose physical presence, like the fiddler on the street, sustains a humble sense of virtuosity. Configuring various situations of listening with and without watching, in silence or in music, enhances the experience of the bare force of the stage design by the visual artist Michel François. Choreography Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker Dance Boris Charmatz, Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker Violin Amandine Beyer Music Partita No. 2, Johann Sebastian Bach