Rosas-Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker

Rosas danst Rosas​


The celebrated Flemish choreographer wanted to wind the thread right back to the beginning for her Athens première. In 1983, Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker launched the ‘Rosas’ style – a recognizable idiom in its own right now for a quarter century across Europe – with the founding act of the Rosas company: her emblematic Rosas danst Rosas. The word-play of the work’s tautological title is also illustrative of the choreographer’s aesthetic in which spirals and repetition are the dominant elements in a performance whose momentum and energy draw more on everyday life than they do on the dance tradition.


Creation 1983: Rosas, Kaaitheater,Klapstuk

Rerun 1992: Rosas, De Munt/La Monnaie 

Rerun 2009: Rosas