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Teresa De Keersmaeker set herself three objectives: to intensify the relation between dance and music, to build a repertory, and to launch a dance school (after the disappearance of MUDRA from Brussels in 1988). That year, Rosas created ERTS and released Rosa - a film of a choreography by Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker to Bartok music directed by Peter Greenaway. Later that year, Rosas created Mozart Concert Alias, un moto di gioia for the Avignon Festival. A production made in collaboration with the Orchestre des Champs Elysées, directed by Philippe Herreweghe. In 1993, Rosas created Toccata, to the music of J.S, Bach, for the Holland Festival. In May 1994, the KunstenFESTTVALdes Arts in Brussels premiered Kinok, produced in collaboration with Thierry De Mey and the Ictus Ensemble. At the end of 1994, this collaboration resulted into a new creation: Amor Constante mas alla de la muerte. In November 1995, La Monnaie premiered Verklärte Nacht, a choreography that was part of the Schönberg production Erwartung/Verkldrte Nacht. In 1995, Rosas and La Monnaie launched in Brussels a new international school for contemporary dance. P.A.R.T.S. Performing Arts Research & Training Studios, where sixty students coming from some 25 countries are trained, over a three year period, by more then SO teachers. In December 1996, Woud, three movements to the music of Berg Schönberg & Wagner was premiered in Seville. At the beginning of 1997, Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker created, together with Steve Paxton and The Wooster Group, 3 sobs for Vincent Dunoyer. In November 1997, Just Before, to a five performance by the Ictus Ensemble of music composed by Magnus Lindberg, John Cage, Yannis Xenakis, Steve Reich, Pierre Bartholomée and Thierry De Mey, was presented in La Monnaie, In February 1998, Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker made her debut as an opera director at La Monnaie with Bartók’s Duke Bluebeard’s Castle. In August 1998, the Impuls Festival in Vienna premiered Drumming a production to Steve Reich’s composition of the same name. In November Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker created The Lisbon Piece, for the Portuguese Companhia National de Bailado: her first experience as a guest choregrapher. In March 1999, Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker created, together with Rosas dancer Cynthia Loemij and Jolente De Keersmaeker and Frank Vercruyssen from theatre company STAN, Quartett, a dance-theatre performance based on the text by Heiner Müller, One month later, she choreographed and danced a duet with Elizabeth Corbett for the production with/for/by. In May 1999, Rosas premiered I said I, a collaboration with Jolente De Keersmaeker for the direction, with the Ictus Ensemble, Alca Moon and DJ Grazzhoppa for the music composition and execution. Jan Joris Lamers designed the set and lighting and Dries Van Noten the costumes. For In Real Time in 2000, Rosas again collaborated with Stan, as well as with the jazz-ensemble Aka Moon for the composition and live interpretation of the music. In January 2001, Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker created with 10 dancers Rain, another performance to the score Music for 18 Musicians, by Steve Reich. Over the past years, Rosas has also revived several earlier pieces:

Rosas danst Rosas, Fase, Mikrokosmos, Acbterland and others. Rosas’ productions have been invited by theatres and festivals throughout almost the whole of Europe, the U.SA, South America, Australia, New-Zealand, Japan, Hong Kong Both the performances and the films of Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker have been distinguished by various international awards. Rosas danst Rosas won the Bessie Award (1988), Mikrokosmos received a Japanese Dance Award for the best foreign production (1989), Stella got the London Dance and Performances Award (1989), Drumming was prized with the Golden Laurel Wreath for the best choreography in Sarajevo (October 1998). The film Hoppla! was awarded a Sole d’Oro in Italy and the Grand Prix Vidéo Danse in Sete (1989). The film Rosa has been distinguished by a Dance Screen Award, got a Special Jury Commendation in the Black and White Short Film Competition at the Film Festival in Cork and was selected for the 49th Mostra Interazionale d’Arte Cinematografica in Venice (1992). In 1994 in Lyon a Dance Screen Award was offered to the film Achteriand (1994), while the film Rosas danst Rosas obtained the Grand Prix International Vidéo Danse in 1997 and the special prize of the Jury of the International Festival of Film and New Media on Art in Athens in 1998. In 2000, the short film Tippeke got the Grand Prix Carina Ari of the Festival International Media Dance in Boulogne-Billancourt. Furthermore, m June 1995, Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker received the title of Doctor Honoris Causa at the VUB (Flemish University in Brussels). In March 1996 the government of the province of Antwerp awarded her the Eugene Baie prize, and in May 2000 she was awarded by the French Republic the Officier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres title. In 2002 she received the annual award of the Gabriella Moortgat Stichring and la médaille de Vermeil from the City of Paris and a medal (‘Erepenning’) of the belgian Flemish government. In 2004 she was awarded the „Keizer Karelprijs“ from the province of Oost Vlaanderen. Photos: Gérard Uféras, Herman Sorgeloos & Tina Ruisinger Production: Rosas, De Munt / La Monnaie Co-production; Léonard de Vinci / Opéra de Rouen