Driving 'rain' - New York Notebook - dance by Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker comes to Brooklyn Academy of Music festival - Brief Article

Dance Magazine, Nov, 2003 by Kate Mattingly

[NY] The current doyenne of contemporary dance in Europe, Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, brings her company, Rosas, back to Brooklyn Academy of Music's Next Wave Festival November 12-15. De Keersmaeker, who attended NYU's Tisch School of the Arts and brought Rosas to New York for the first time in 1986, returns to BAM with Rain, set to Steve Reich's propulsive music played live by Ictus.

Like Drumming, her driving, evening-length piece presented by BAM two years ago, Rain is more concerned with pattern and rhythm than the text-infused pieces that dominate European Tanztheater. Asked what draws him to her work. Joseph V. Melillo. BAM's executive producer, said, "It's her extraordinary originality and movement invention." See www.bam.org.