Rosas breadcrumb home / productions THE GOLDBERG VARIATIONS, BWV 988 Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, Pavel Kolesnikov / Alain Franco The Goldberg Variations belong to Bach’s late period, in which the composer pushes the boundaries of musical themes in a play of variations, canons and fugues. For this composition, he started from a simple and quiet melody, joined with an underlying bass line, which steadily unfolds into a musical cosmos that reveals itself with extraordinary variety and unparalleled complexity. Together with pianists Pavel Kolesnikov and Alain Franco, Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker continues her journey with Bach in dialogue with these variations. The large casting of The Six Brandenburg Concertos – her previous creation to music by Bach – is now brought back to a solo performance danced by De Keersmaeker herself. In doing so, she stays true to the same principle of the musical score as the blueprint for choreography. Spanning no less than one aria and thirty variations, the music challenges the choreography to a similar exercise in width: to find a form of dance capable of adaptation and flexibility while retaining an immutable core. To De Keersmaeker, it is above all an invitation to consolidate the road travelled as an artist, posing today’s questions in her ongoing search for a personal choreographic idiom. Choreography and dance Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker Music Johann Sebastian Bach, The Goldberg Variations, BWV 988 Piano Pavel Kolesnikov Alain Franco Musical collaboration Alain Franco Choreographic assistant Diane Madden Set and lighting design Minna Tiikkainen Production Rosas Coproduction Wiener Festwochen, Concertgebouw (Brugge), De Munt / La Monnaie, Théâtre de la Ville à Paris - Théâtre du Châtelet (Paris), Internationaal Theater Amsterdam / Julidans, Sadler’s Wells (London), Montpellier Danse This production is realized with the support of the Tax Shelter of the Belgian Federal Government, in collaboration with Casa Kafka Pictures Tax Shelter empowered by Belfius. Piano provided by Yamaha. READ MORE Variations Goldberg, Poursuivre le dialogue intérieur — a text by Gilles Amalvi (in French) I dance that I danced (and choreographed) — Notes to The Goldberg Variations written by Rudi Laermans Leave-taking, Homecoming — Bojana Cvejić on Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker’s Goldberg Variations The Goldberg Variations, BWV988 — Trailer UPCOMING 21-23.12.2021 THE GOLDBERG VARIATIONS, BWV 988 Vooruit - Ghent, Belgium 03-04.03.2022 THE GOLDBERG VARIATIONS, BWV 988 Culturgest - Lisbon, Portugal 12-13.03.2022 THE GOLDBERG VARIATIONS, BWV 988 Le Lieu Unique - Nantes, France 16-17.03.2022 THE GOLDBERG VARIATIONS, BWV 988 Opéra de Dijon - Dijon, France 29.03.2022 THE GOLDBERG VARIATIONS, BWV 988 CC Hasselt - Hasselt, Belgium 12.04.2022 THE GOLDBERG VARIATIONS, BWV 988 Le Lieu Unique - Nantes, France 12.05.2022 THE GOLDBERG VARIATIONS, BWV 988 Amare - Den Haag, The Netherlands News Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker's speech – Helena Vaz da Silva Award 2021 Watch the video here Published on 17.11.2021 In Memoriam Annie Declerck (1934–2021) Published on 16.11.2021 Helena Vaz da Silva Award: follow the livestream tonight! Published on 08.11.2021 In Memoriam JAN RITSEMA 1945–2021 On Sunday 10 October the Dutch theatre director Jan Ritsema (Amsterdam, 1945) passed away. Published on 12.10.2021 ALL NEWS NEWSLETTER Subscribe MORE ROSAS Instagram Twitter Facebook Webshop PRO PAGE password ©2021 Rosas — identity by Casier/Fieuws — website by Tentwelve — privacy statement