I saw this incredible film at the International House in conjunction with an equally amazing exhibition “Dance with Camera” currently on view at the ICA in Philly. The dance film was a combination of intensely emotional theatrics with a very repetitive and mechanical space, movement, and music. It was filmed in an old school, and the institutional and modernist aesthetic offered a dynamic pairing with the dance. Really one of the most incredible films I have seen in a while.

Rosas danst Rosas

dir. Thierry de Mey, Belgium, 1997, video, 57 mins, color, Dutch w/ English subtitles

In the early 1980s, Belgian choreographer Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker’s created her masterpiece Rosas danst Rosas in close collaboration with composers Thierry De Mey and Peter Vermeersch. Fifteen years later, de Mey filmed the stunningly expressionistic dance performed by the second generation of Keersmaeker’s Rosas dance company. More info here.