Fase, Four Movements to the Music of Steve Reich

In 1980, after studying dance at Mudra School in Brussels and Tisch School of the Arts in New York, Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker (b. 1960) created Asch, her first choreographic work. Two years later came the premiere of Fase, Four Movements to the Music of Steve Reich. De Keersmaeker established the dance company Rosas in Brussels in 1983, while creating the work Rosas danst Rosas. Since these breakthrough pieces, her choreography has been grounded in a rigorous and prolific exploration of the relationship between dance and music. With Rosas, she has created a wide-ranging body of work engaging the musical structures and scores of several periods, from early music to contemporary and popular idioms. Her choreographic practice also draws formal principles from geometry, numerical patterns, the natural world, and social structures to offer a unique perspective on the body’s articulation in space and time.

In 1995, De Keersmaeker established the school P.A.R.T.S. (Performing Arts Research and Training Studios) in Brussels. Over the past 10 years, her work has also engaged with the visual arts in museum contexts such as the Louvre, Tate Modern and MoMA. In 2023, she created EXIT ABOVE with a cast of 13 dancers and in 2024 IL CIMENTO, exploring Antonio Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons. Her latest creation BREL (2025) is a collaboration with dancer and choreographer Solal Mariotte.

Laura Bachman (1994, France) graduated from the Paris Opera ballet school in 2011. That same year, she joined the Paris Opera Ballet as a full-time member. During this time, she danced in classical ballets, neoclassical works, and contemporary pieces by Pina Bausch and Wayne McGregor. In 2016, she spent a few months in Los Angeles, as part of the LA Dance Project, and subsequently moved to Brussels to become a full-time member of Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker’s company, Rosas. In 2020, she became a freelance artist. Since then, she works for several choreographers and companies, including Boris Charmatz and the Tanztheater Wuppertal, and develops her own work. After directing a short dance film Chimera in 2021, she created her first evening-length piece, Ne me touchez pas (2023). It is currently on tour in France and Belgium. Through choreography she was able to connect with several artists and disciplines. She has also created for cinema, music and opera, for artists such as Wes Anderson, Manele Labidi, Cédric Klapisch, Jain or Ron, among others.

Yuika Hashimoto (Born 1991, Japan) has been dancing since she was three years old, taking lessons with Yoshie Nagai in Ishikawa. She continued her dance education in Tokyo, where she graduated from the Japan Women’s College of Physical Education in March 2014. She graduated from P.A.R.T.S. (Brussels) in June 2016. She has been collaborating with "Scarbo" saxophone quartet (Belgium) for the project PAGINE since 2015. Yuika joined Rosas in 2016 for the revival of Rain. She has been performing most of the early works, and participated in the Dark Red projects. Since 2022, Yuika has worked as a freelancer with Rosas, fieldworks (Belgium/Norway) and nïm company (Austria). On a volunteer basis, she gives dance workshops to people with mental disabilities at Bind Kracht. 

Rosas is the company of the choreographer and dancer Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker. It was founded in 1983 during the creation of the piece Rosas danst Rosas. Since her debut in 1982 with Fase, Four Movements to the Music of Steve Reich, De Keersmaeker has been engaged in a rigorous exploration and articulation of movement, from its simplest forms to its most complex. The relationship between movement and music is essential to De Keersmaeker’s concept of dance. Rosas has expanded the art of dance as an act of writing movements in space and time, and has over the years explored choreography in partnership with other compositional forces, namely music, geometry, the visual arts, and language. De Keersmaeker’s engagement of these disciplines has involved collaborations with experts—musicians, composers, visual artists, actors, writers—who have at different times been integral participants and performers in Rosas productions.

Born in New York and raised there and in California, Steve Reich graduated with honours in philosophy from Cornell University in 1957. For the next two years, he studied composition with Hall Overton, and from 1958 to 1961 studied at the Juilliard School of Music. Reich received his M.A. in Music from Mills College in 1963, where he worked with Luciano Berio and Darius Milhaud. Since 1971, Steve Reich and Musicians have frequently toured the world and have performed to sold-out houses at venues from Carnegie Hall to the Bottom Line Cabaret. Reich’s 1988 piece, Different Trains, marked a new compositional method in which speech recordings generate the musical material for instruments. In 1990, he received a GRAMMY Award for Best Contemporary Composition for Different Trains, recorded by the Kronos Quartet. He won a second GRAMMY in 1999 for Music for 18 Musicians. Over the years, Reich has received commissions from the most important international institutions. His music has been performed by major orchestras and ensembles around the world and several choreographers have created dances to Reich’s music.