Floor patterns and time structures based on Fibonacci

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Amor Constante mas alla de la muerte, Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker (1994)

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Hertog Blauwbaards burcht, Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker (1998)

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Introduction

Movement and writing is at the heart of all Thierry De Mey's work, whether that is composing music, making an art installation or a film. He has been collaborating with many choreographers, such as Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, Wim Vandekeybus, Michèle Anne De Mey, William Forsythe, Thomas Hauert, etc. The collaboration stretches much further than being their music composer or adviser: in many occasions he suggests what he calls formal strategies, such as floor patterns or other structures for the choreography.

Although Myriam Van Imschoot met with Thierry De Mey in 2005 when preparing the essay for Multitudes, the interview was not recorded, nor did his scores appear in Multitudes. In September 2011 Tom Engels and Kristien Van den Brande visited Thierry De Mey again in his studio in Charleroi/Danses to speak about his trajectory with scores and notation systems, from the begining of his career in 1983 with Rosas danst Rosas, to today. Thierry De Mey explained that his work on scores can roughly be divided into two main axes. The first ax relates to his own work as a composer of gestural music, where he was confronted with the question of how to write down his compositions in order to transmit them to other composers or ensembles. The second ax is related to his collaborations with choreographers. For Oral Site we decided to concentrate on this last ax, on the 'written documents' (such as timelines, floor patterns, drawings) he has proposed as underlying structures for choreography.

More about Thierry De Mey

In 2011 the magazine Mouvement and CECN made a monography about Thierry De Mey, documenting his work with texts, interviews and visual illustrations. Download the magazine

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