Thierry De Mey

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Het Gerucht: Rosas danst Rosas

May 06, 1983

Het Gerucht: Rosas danst Rosas

1983 27 min 1 vues

A short documentary about the creation process of Rosas danst Rosas, the performance that forced Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker’s international breakthrough and has become a benchmark in the history of postmodern dance. This documentary, directed by Stefaan Decostere for the BRT cultural programme Het Gerucht [The Rumour, ed.], uses fragments of rehearsals and interviews with De Keersmaeker and composer Thierry De Mey, offering a glimpse of the choreographic creative process in which repeated abstract movements play a key role.

Documentary

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Musiques De Table - De Mey Thierry

May 08, 2013

Musiques De Table - De Mey Thierry

2013 7 min 1 vues

Three percussionists each have a small table as their only instrument. The variety of tones is ensured by the different striking modes. The positions of the fingers and hands and the rhythmic figures are codified in a repertoire of original symbols used in the score.

Music

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Les femmes du passé

Jan 01, 1999

Les femmes du passé

1999 7 min 1 vues

Performance directed by Thierry de Mey.

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Rosas Danst Rosas

Jun 18, 1997

Rosas Danst Rosas

1997 57 min 1 vues

Thierry De Mey filmed Rosas danst Rosas in the former technical school of architect Henry Van de Velde in Leuven. The film version is much shorter than the show itself. In his film Thierry De Mey opts for a heavily ‘inter-cut’ version in which, apart from the cast of four dancers from 1995 and 1996, he also has all the other performers from the long history of the show dance along. He makes maximum use of the geometrical and spatial qualities of the Van de Veldes building. Incidentally, the building was thoroughly renovated straight after the film was made, making it one of the last testimonials to the original architecture. The film was shown on all of the major European television channels and also had a cinema career in the ‘art house circuit’.

Music

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Musique de tables

Jan 01, 1999

Musique de tables

1999 8 min 1 vues

A short film for three pairs of hands and three tables, based on a notable composition by the director.

Music

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Musique de tables

Jan 01, 1999

Musique de tables

1999 8 min 1 vues

A short film for three pairs of hands and three tables, based on a notable composition by the director.

Music

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Love Sonnets

Jan 01, 1993

Love Sonnets

1993 29 min 1 vues

A film adaptation of Michèle-Ann De Mey's "Sonatas 555" - choreographic variations on the highways and byways of love.

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Fase

Mar 09, 2002

Fase

2002 52 min 3 vues

"Fase" consists of three duets and one solo dance, choreographed to four repetitive compositions by the American minimalist musician, Steve Reich: Piano Phase, Come Out, Violin Phase and Clapping Music. Reich allows his tones to gradually shift in rhythm and melody and between the instruments. The choreography applies the same phase-shifting principle. The purely abstract movements are executed so perfectly that they seem almost mechanical and yet affect us in a strange way.

Music

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Rosas Danst Rosas

Jun 18, 1997

Rosas Danst Rosas

1997 57 min 1 vues

Thierry De Mey filmed Rosas danst Rosas in the former technical school of architect Henry Van de Velde in Leuven. The film version is much shorter than the show itself. In his film Thierry De Mey opts for a heavily ‘inter-cut’ version in which, apart from the cast of four dancers from 1995 and 1996, he also has all the other performers from the long history of the show dance along. He makes maximum use of the geometrical and spatial qualities of the Van de Veldes building. Incidentally, the building was thoroughly renovated straight after the film was made, making it one of the last testimonials to the original architecture. The film was shown on all of the major European television channels and also had a cinema career in the ‘art house circuit’.

Music

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Ma Mere l'Oye

Jan 01, 2004

Ma Mere l'Oye

2004 29 min 1 vues

A dance set to Pierre Boulez's recording of Ravel's Ma Mere l'Oye

Music

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Floréal

Jan 01, 1985

Floréal

1985 25 min 1 vues

"Floréal" is the name of a garden city in a district of Brussels (Boitsfort). Hundreds of small houses with black and yellow woodwork, in streets named after flowers. This garden city was a first attempt to solve the problem of workers' housing after the First World War. A cooperative system ruined any hope of speculation since the land capital had to remain the property of the community. The director, who lived in Floréal until he was 18, filmed his "encounter" with this neighbourhood. A double portrait of its inhabitants and its architecture, sometimes reduced to abstract motifs, punctuated by the minimalist music composed by him.

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Counter Phrases

Mar 13, 2003

Counter Phrases

2003 61 min 1 vues

Ten shorts by Thierry De Mey set to music by ten composers with ten danced phrases choreographed by Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker and performed by Rosas. These ten films encapsulate the best of De Keersmaeker and De Mey's collaboration: twenty years of assiduously practicing variation, of perpetually inventing algorithms, filters, and formulae that twist movement and space according to the capricious mathematics of pleasure. All of this is filmed - O Belgitude! - in exquisite flower-filled gardens and under impressionistic drizzling rain.

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One Flat Thing, Reproduced

Mar 13, 2006

One Flat Thing, Reproduced

2006 27 min 1 vues

Directed by Thierry de Mey.

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La Valse

Nov 22, 2010

La Valse

2010 15 min 1 vues

La Valse is dance a film by Thierry De Mey based on the choreography created on Maurice Ravel’s La Valse as the final part of ZOO’s performance Accords. Created as part of the triptych Equi Voci, the film La Valse exists in versions for one or three screens.

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21 études à danser

Jan 01, 1999

21 études à danser

1999 21 min 1 vues

In musical terminology, the term " study " designates pieces to approach a specific problem : study for arpeggios, for the left-handed etc. The question here is how to merge dancing footage with elements of fiction. What is the right tone, the golden proportion to tell/dance the stories without resorting to techniques of a musical or a ballet ? New ways of telling a story: this is, without a doubt, a critical challenge for dance today. Twenty-one micro fictions by four Cie Michèle Anne De Mey dancers in witch the educational aspect of experimentation soon gives way to the pleasur of joyful poetics: an original blend of tender insolence and srtict elegance.

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21 études à danser

Jan 01, 1999

21 études à danser

1999 21 min 1 vues

In musical terminology, the term " study " designates pieces to approach a specific problem : study for arpeggios, for the left-handed etc. The question here is how to merge dancing footage with elements of fiction. What is the right tone, the golden proportion to tell/dance the stories without resorting to techniques of a musical or a ballet ? New ways of telling a story: this is, without a doubt, a critical challenge for dance today. Twenty-one micro fictions by four Cie Michèle Anne De Mey dancers in witch the educational aspect of experimentation soon gives way to the pleasur of joyful poetics: an original blend of tender insolence and srtict elegance.