Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker Reimagines and Significantly Expands Work/Travail/Arbeid for Performances at The Museum of Modern Art

NEW YORK, February 23, 2017—The Museum of Modern Art presents Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker: Work/Travail/Arbeid, which reimagines De Keersmaeker’s hour-long stage performance, Vortex Temporum (2013), choreographed to the eponymous work by the late French composer Gérard Grisey, as an exhibition tailored to the unique dimensions of MoMA’s Donald B. and Catherine C. Marron Atrium. Dancers from De Keersmaeker’s company Rosas and musicians from the Ictus ensemble will perform continuously during public hours over five days, from 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Wednesday, March 29 through Sunday, April 2, and until 7:00 p.m. on Friday, March 31. The starting point for Work/Travail/Arbeid is a simple question: Can choreography be performed in the form of an exhibition? The original hour-long piece has been expanded to a nine-hour cycle, with each hour offering different choreography and combinations of seven dancers and six musicians and a conductor (Vortex Temporum is originally a sextet for piano, flute, clarinet, violin, viola, and cello). On March 29, 30, and April 1, dancers from Rosas will teach workshops to the public (ages six and above) consisting of a basic series of movements that form the foundation of Work/Travail/Arbeid in The Agnes Gund Garden Lobby at 11:00 a.m., 12:30 p.m., and 2:00 p.m. The workshops will be free with admission and available on a first-come, first-served basis, with sign-up beginning 30 minutes prior to each workshop. Details are available at MoMA.org/DeKeersmaeker....