ABSTRACT
Since the Belgian choreographer Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker began making work, she has shown a steady and methodical progression of choreographic development. Asch (I’m Tired), made in 1980, was her first piece, but it was a brief, productive time in New York City that spurred the making of her second and more important work, Fase: Four Movements (1982). De Keersmaeker met and worked with members of Reich’s ensemble-Edmund Niemann and Nurit Tilles (piano) and Shem Guibbory (violin)— during her stay in the United States. She choreographed ‘Violin Phrase’ and ‘Come Out’, the first two sections of Fase, in New York, and ‘Piano Phrase’ and ‘Clapping Music’, on her return to Belgium. This seminal piece was a duet for herself and another fine Belgian dancer, Michele Anne De Mey. An effective performer in Fase, De Mey, a choreographer herself, continued as an associate and dancer in other De Keersmaeker works well into the 1980s.
