Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker's 'Rain' at Romaeuropa Festival

Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker's 'Rain', set to Steve Reich's 'Music for 18 Musicians' (1976), captivated audiences at the Romaeuropa Festival in Rome. The piece, premiered in 2001 at Théâtre de la Monnaie in Brussels and added to the Ballet de l'Opéra de Paris repertoire in 2011, features ten dancers (three men, seven women) from her company Rosas. They perform in pastel costumes that shift through pink to gray and white, occupying a vast stage enclosed by a semicircular filiform curtain. The choreography, characterized by running, straight lines, diagonals, circles, spirals, lifts, slides, jumps, falls, and rises, creates an ecstatic harmonic architecture. The movement is generated by the rhythmic counterpoint of clarinets and strings, with group sequences alternating with solos, duets, trios, and quartets. The work is inspired by 'In real time', whose last words were 'I hope tomorrow it won't rain'.