The Song, 1, Rosas

A performance by Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, Ann Veronica Janssens, Michel François It is a kind of laboratory work, where you untangle the fusion of things heard and seen, and in separating them and putting them together again, the chemical substance may change. I began experimenting with the synaesthetic shifts between watching and listening to sound and movement in The Song from which my collaboration with Ann Veronica Janssens and Michel François originates. In The Song, we composed movement to music and then removed the music from it. Using the technique of the foley artist, we would derive the foley sounds from movement and then subtract the movement that gave rise to the sound and superpose another dance to it. You see, even if my main partner is music, I spend a lot of time in studio working in silence where I seek out musicality created from movement alone.