Il Cimento dell’Armonia e dell’Inventione  

Name: Il Cimento dell’Armonia e dell’Inventione
Start: 2027-01-09 14:00:00+11:00
End: 2027-01-11 19:00:00+11:00
Location: Carriageworks

Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker & Radouan Mriziga

Belgium / Morocco

Vivaldi's masterpiece meets a world on fire. 

Description

Australian Exclusive Rosas, A7LA5

‘Iconic’. ‘Classic’. ‘Canon’. So much of how we value great art is determined by the idea of what endures over time. Nowhere is this clearer than in Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons, a soundscape for what was assumed to be an inviolable natural order. This enthralling production from visionary Belgian choreographer Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker and Moroccan dance maker Radouan Mriziga pits the canon against climate change, creating an unforgettable encounter with music you thought you knew.

Four incredible dancers in Boštjan Antončič, Nassim Baddag, Lav Crnčević and José Paulo dos Santos are given the daunting task of embodying the seasons, and their collapse—tracing the rhythms of birdsong, storms, blazing summers and frozen winters in the stagger, sway and ripple of their bodies.

Set to a recording of violinist Amandine Beyer performing Vivaldi’s seminal work and given an injection of urgency from the poem ‘We, the salvage’ by Asmaa Jama, this layered weaving of elements reveals hidden textures and unexpected emotional landscapes.

Three centuries after The Four Seasons was first composed, Il Cimento dell’Armonia e dell’Intervenione asks us to consider the ways in which our relationship with nature has shifted and what these once-timeless seasons mean today.

Il Cimento dell’Armonia e dell’Intervenione... is part of the Dance Reflections by Van Cleef and Arpels program. Discover more here.

★★★★★️ "A revelation... Vivaldi's masterpiece feels astonishingly new."

LE SOIR

★★★★★️ “Vivaldi like you’ve never seen before.”

L'ECHO

Dance

Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker

Belgium

In 1980, after studying dance at Mudra School in Brussels and Tisch School of the Arts in New York, Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker created her first choreographic work, Asch, followed by Fase, Four Movements to the Music of Steve Reich. In 1983, she founded the Brussels-based dance company Rosas while creating Rosas danst Rosas. Her choreography explores the relationship between dance and music, drawing on musical structures from early music to contemporary and popular forms. Her practice also incorporates geometry, numerical patterns, nature and social structures to explore the body in space and time. In 1995, she founded P.A.R.T.S. in Brussels.

Radouan Mriziga

Morocco

Choreographer and dancer Radouan Mriziga studied dance in Marrakech, Tunisia and at P.A.R.T.S. in Brussels. He has performed in works by artists including Bart Meuleman, Claire Croizé, Simon Tanguy and Youness Khoukhou. From 2014, he began creating his own work, supported by Moussem Nomadic Arts Centre. His works include 55, 3600, 7, 8.2., Atlas, Libya, Akal, Ayur and Tafukt. Mriziga has been artist in residence at Kaaitheater in Brussels and deSingel in Antwerp. In 2024, he began his second collaboration with Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, following 3IRD5 @ W9RK (2020), created for La Maison des Arts in Brussels.