Steve Reich dance evening at Edinburgh Festival

(August 2008)

The artistic relationship between choreographer Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker and the music of  Steve Reich is celebrated at the Edinburgh International Festival with a Steve Reich Evening presented at the Edinburgh Festival Theatre on three evenings (15-17 August).

Watch video clips of three Reich ballets on the Edinburgh Festival website.

American composer Steve Reich has inspired Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker throughout her choreographic career. With her second work Fase, four movements to the music of Steve Reich, she made an explosive impact on the international dance scene in 1982.

De Keersmaeker's choreographic style is accentuated in Steve Reich Evening, which brings together seven pieces made over twenty-five years to the music of her favourite composer.

Steve Reich found fame as a pioneer of minimalism but his work is also varied and diverse. This performance offers an opportunity to experience the work of two great artists performed by a superb company of dancers to live music from six piece contemporary ensemble, Ictus.

Following the Edinburgh performances, the Steve Reich Evening travels on to Gothenburg (22-23 August) and Hamburg (27-29 August). In the Autumn Rosas and Ictus tour it in Europe including Sadlers Wells in London (29/30 September), Dijon (7/8 October), Aix-en-Provence (10/11 October), within its season at the Kaaitheater in Brussels (15-22 November) and in Caen (11 December).

The programme also crosses the Atlantic to New York for four performances at the BAM Next Wave festival (22-25 October).

For a full diary of performances of the Steve Reich Evening visit the Rosas website.

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Photo: Rosas in the Steve Reich Evening

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