22 january 2015

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PRESS RELEASE
ANNE TERESA DE KEERSMAEKER
WORK/TRAVAIL/ARBEID
26 FEBRUARY - 6 MARCH 2016
GALERIE SUD, LEVEL 1
What if choreography was staged as an exhibition?

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Melding disciplines, the Centre Pompidou is to collaborate with the Opra National de Paris
to present Work/Travail/Arbeid, a choreographical exhibition conceived by renowned
Belgian choreographer Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker. The implications of her project
undermine conventional ways of understanding, developing and experiencing both dance
and exhibition.
The distinguishing feature of the Centre Pompidou, what sets it apart, is its being a
multidisciplinary centre of arts and culture, the improbable encounter of museum, live
performance, cinema, library and institute of acoustic/musical research (Ircam). I have sought
to make this encounter even more fruitful by promoting inter-disciplinary collaboration in the
programming of each space, for inter-disciplinarity, this formative feature of the Centres

Emmanuelle Rodet-Alindret
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Opra national de Paris
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character, is also an essential aspect of contemporary art. It now finds itself magnificently
exemplified by Anne Teresa De Keersmaekers singular project in the Galerie Sud.
Serge Lasvignes, President of the Centre Pompidou.

The choreography has been especially created and adapted for the exhibition space in
the Centre Pompidous Galerie Sud.

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Work/Travail/Arbeid is an adaptation of Vortex Temporum, a choreographed work to music

of the same title by French composer Grard Grisey, conceived in the first instance for the

photo : Anne Van Aerschot

temporal, spatial and perceptual conditions of the stage.

In performing Work/Travail/Arbeid in the Galerie Sud, the dancers of the Rosas company and the
musicians of the Ictus ensemble are not just bringing a ballet to the Centre Pompidou; they are also
rendering dance in the form of a nine-day exhibition, in which the initial duration of the piece is expanded
to nine-hour cycles.
A new section of the choreography is presented each hour, with a new combination of dancers and
musicians.
This project transforms the material and context that have long been essential to dance, giving new
expression to De Keersmaekers rigorous approach to choreographic composition.
Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker has for many years now explored the relations between music and dance, in
isolation and together. Vortex Temporum shares the same structure, asking us as it were to see movement
when we only have the sound to go on, and to grasp the music when only the steps are visible. This
choreographical exhibition reveals the conceptual, technical and physical labour the work, indeed that
underlies her entire production.
After the Centre Pompidou, this exhibition initially conceived for the WIELS Contemporary Art Centre in
Brussels (March May 2015) will travel to Tate Modern, London (8 10 July 2016) and then MoMA, New
York (25 March 2 April 2017).
A dance performance, in principle, pulls together all the strata accumulated during work in
rehearsals. I thought here that it would be interesting to see the simplicity and beauty of the
physical movements in isolation from the whole, layer by layer, and so suggest the infinity of
possible combinations of these elements.
Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker.
Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker was awarded the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement in Dance at the
Venice Biennale of 2015.
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A choreographical exhibition at Centre Pompidou produced in collaboration with the Opra

National de Paris, in co-production with the Rosas company and WIELS (Brussels),
supported by the Fondation BNP Paribas.
Work/Travail/Arbeid was developed with the support of De Munt/La Monnaie,
the Center for Fine Arts Brussels (BOZAR), Kaaitheater, Kunstenfestivaldesarts, Ictus,
BNP Paribas Fortis, Fondation BNP Paribas, and the Rolex Institute.

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AT THE SAME TIME AT THE CENTRE

CHRISTIAN RIZZO
ad noctum
17, 18, 19, 20 FEBRUARY, 8.30 pm
GRANDE SALLE, LEVEL -1
DANCE FILM
3 MARCH, 8 pm
CINEMA 1
Rain, 2014, 70
A film by Louise Narboni.
Music by Steve Reich, choreography
by Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker
Followed by a discussion with the
choreographer
IRCAM CONCERT
Tourbillon Grisey
Grard Grisey Vortex Temporum
5 MARCH, 7.30 pm
GRANDE SALLE, LEVEL - 1
GRARD FROMANGER
17 FEBRUARY - 16 MAY 2016
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