Chosen Practitioner
Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker
I chose to take inspiration from practitioner Anne Teresa
De Keersmaeker as I find her work has elements of technical contemporary fused
with her own personality and a pedestrian element which gives an organic
quality to the movements she creates. After watching several of her works and notating
the standout elements of her style, I decide to further explore what brings me
to want to watch more. I found myself taken to her use of costume, pedestrian
clothing, baggy and floating fabrics that have their own movement and the use
of hair as an addition to the body; it is like an extra limb to try and move
which I will continue to enjoy exploring throughout my process. I also really connected
to her work ‘Rain’ of 2016 as it implemented walking and almost sporadic dancing
that had a life like quality, so rather then just creating shapes that look
nice, she creates a story that has meaning and breath to it (Sadler's Wells Theatre, 2017).
In our contemporary repertoire class, we have been learning
and working on her choreography ‘Rosas Danst Rosas’ which was a brilliant way
for me to workshop her style and explore the use of hair as a part of the bodies
movement. It was an interesting experience to compare watching her dancers and
feeling the dance myself as it looks s effortless but is a challenge to
recreate with that effect.
To find out more, I have been diving into her content and
watching a variety of her work whilst also reading her website to learn more
about her and the purpose behind each production and project. For example, I
learned that many of her pieces for example ‘A Love Supreme’ begins with the music
and the movement and quality is built from here (Fieuws and Casier, 2021). I also found that through learning her
piece ‘Rosas Danst Rosas’ I found the choreographic process to be like a tool I
have learned about before where you create a set of motifs and order them
randomly to create a phrase. This is something I’d like to bring into my
choreography as I think the use of motifs will help me express the narrative I want
to create.
Concluding my practitioner research, I have discovered the tools I will implement into my choreographic strategy, and I have been inspired to explore the use of costume as I haven't thought about it much when creating my stimulus, and now I have a plan of what I'd like to use.
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