Work, Travail, Arbeid at Mo MA, a video by Gerard Jan Claes Olivia Rochette

What would it mean for choreography to perform as an exhibition This question was the point of departure for Work, Travail, Arbeid. In response, Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker reimagined her piece Vortex Temporum for the radically different temporal, spatial, and perceptual conditions of a museumlike environment. The choreographer did not simply bring a dance performance into a new kind of space, but rethought it as a nine weeks long exhibition, continuously accessible to the public. The original choreography made for the condensed time and space of a stage performance was thus entirely reinvented so as to extend itself across a new time and space. This project transformed the conditions that have long been essential to dance and gave a new form to the rigorous choreographic writing for which De Keersmaeker is known. Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker: Work, Travail, Arbeid March 29April 2, 2017 The Museum of Modern Art Concept choreography Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker Originally curated