Choreographer Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker masterfully reworks Vivaldi’s Four Seasons

A neon light flashes in the silence, then a whole wall. How often? This raises the question of rhythm. Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker tackles the Four Seasons by Vivaldi, and we suspect that she will not choreograph them as she took hold of Reich, Schönberg or Biber. The challenge is to make this score truly heard for what it is. The title of the piece, taking up the name given by Vivaldi to the twelve concertos opened by The Four Seasonsunderlines the dimension of the project: The test of harmony and invention.

The task is a big one: the choreographer is enlisting the help of Radouan Mriziga, a Brussels choreographer originally from Marrakech who studied at Parts, the choreography school of Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker. “I was very happy with this invitation from Anne Teresa because this music allows us to work on the question of collective memory,” he said. The choreographer, who discovered the sonnets written by Vivaldi for this creation, places emphasis on her side…