SAITAMA ARTS THEATER

DANCE

Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, Radouan Mriziga / Rosas, A7LA5
"Il Cimento dell’Armonia e dell’Inventione"

Do we still have four seasons?

A dance piece in response to Vivaldi’s “The Four Seasons” ―

In an age of climate change, Rosas offers a quiet yet profound inquiry into nature and music.

 

19:30 (Fri) 19 June 2026

14:00 (Sat) 20 June 2026

14:00 (Sun) 21 June 2026

TICKET INFO

ON SALE TO GENERAL PUBLIC

Saturday, March 28, 2026, 10:00 AM

 

SAITAMA ARTS FOUNDATION MEMBERS PRESALE

Friday, March 20, 2026, 10:00 AM

A new work by world-renowned choreographer Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, recipient of the 2025 Praemium Imperiale (Prince Takamatsu Memorial World Culture) Prize, and rising choreographer Radouan Mriziga, inspired by Vivaldi’s “The Four Seasons”. First presented in 2024 and becoming a Rosas favorite, this work finally makes its Japanese debut.

De Keersmaeker focuses on analyzing the music closely and constructs choreography based on the musical contexts, while Mriziga conjures movements from silence. The leaps, rotation and spinning of four dancers unfold in resonance with celestial orbits and the cycles of life. Accompanied by a hymn to nature echoing from the Mediterranean of some 300 years ago, the work poetically explores the reality of climate change we face today, while renewing the relationship between its musical structure and the body.

“90 minutes of carefully constructed dance geometry, at once nonchalant and cerebral.”

★★★★ ――― The Financial Times

SHOW INFO

Date & Time

19:30 (Fri) 19 June 2026

14:00 (Sat) 20 June 2026

14:00 (Sun) 21 June 2026

※Doors open 30 minutes before the performance.

※Latecomers and those who leave during the show will not be guided to their reserved seat.

Duration

about 90 minutes (no interval)

Venue

Saitama Arts Theater, Main Theater

Choreography

Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, Radouan Mriziga

Created with and Danced by

Boštjan Antončič, Nassim Baddag, Lav Crnčević, José Paulo dos Santos

Music

Antonio Vivaldi, Le quattro stagioni

Recording

Amandine Beyer, Gli Incogniti

Alpha Classics/Outhere Music 2015

Musical Analysis

Amandine Beyer

Poems

Asmaa Jama, ‘We, the salvage’

Antonio Vivaldi, ‘Le quattro stagioni’

Staff

Set and Light Design: Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, Radouan Mriziga

Costume Design: Aouatif Boulaich

Rehearsal Director: Eleni Ellada Damianou

Assistant to the Artistic Director: Martine Lange

Artistic Coordination and Planning: Anne Van Aerschot

Tour Manager: Emma Hermans

Technical Director: Thomas Verachtert

Technicians: Jan-Simon De Lille, Tom Theunis

Wardrobe: Els Van Buggenhout

Managing Director: Lies Martens

Distribution: Frans Brood Productions

Production: Rosas

Co-Production: Berliner Festspiele, Charleroi danse – centre chorégraphique de Wallonie-Bruxelles, Concertgebouw Brugge (Bruges), De Munt/La Monnaie (Brussels), Festival d’Automne à Paris, Festival de Marseille, ImPulsTanz (Vienna), Sadler’s Wells (London), Théâtre de la Ville-Paris

Premiere: May 11, 2024, Rosas Performance Space, presented by De Munt/La Monnaie, Kaaitheater and Kunstenfestivaldesarts with the support of Dance Reflections by Van Cleef & Arpels

This production is realized with the support of the Tax Shelter of the Belgian Federal Government, in collaboration with Casa Kafka Pictures.

Rosas is supported by the Flemish Community and the Flemish Community Commission (VGC).

Presented and Produced by

Saitama Arts Theater (Saitama Arts Foundation), Tokyo Shimbun

Produced by

Saitama Arts Theater (Saitama Arts Foundation)

Co-Tour Coordination with

Aichi Prefectural Art Theater, ROHM Theatre Kyoto

Supported by

The Agency for Cultural Affairs, Government of Japan
Japan Arts Council

Nominal support by

The Embassy of Belgium in Japan

Other Venues

<Aichi>
18:30 (Wed) 24 June 2026
Amano Performing Arts Center Nagoya
052-211-7552(10:00~18:00)
https://www-stage.aac.pref.aichi.jp/

<Kyoto>
19:00 (Sat) 27 June 2026
14:00 (Sun) 28 June 2026
ROHM Theatre Kyoto, South Hall
075-746-3201(10:00~17:00)
https://rohmtheatrekyoto.jp/

Profiles

Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker [dancer and choreographer]

Born in 1960. In 1980, after studying dance at Mudra School in Brussels and Tisch School of the Arts in New York, Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker created “Asch”, her first choreographic work. Two years later came the premiere of “Fase, Four Movements to the Music of Steve Reich”. She established the dance company Rosas in Brussels in 1983, while creating the work “Rosas danst Rosas”. Since these breakthrough pieces, her choreography has been grounded in a rigorous and prolific exploration of the relationship between dance and music. In 1995 De Keersmaeker established the school P.A.R.T.S. (Performing Arts Research and Training Studios) in Brussels in association with De Munt/La Monnaie, and devoting herself to the education for young artists.

 

Radouan Mriziga [dancer and choreographer]

Born in 1985 in Morocco. Radouan Mriziga studied dance in Marrakech and Tunisia, and at P.A.R.T.S. in Brussels, from which he graduated in 2012. Since then, he worked on several productions, including “Re:Zeitung” (P.A.R.T.S. Foundation and De Munt) for which a young generation of professional dancers reworked Rosas/Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker’s “Zeitung”. From 2014 onwards he started creating his own work such as his first solo, “55”, and group pieces, entitled “3600” and “7”. He became an artist in residence at Kaaitheater in Brussels and at deSingel in Antwerp, and has been producing notable works including “Atlas”, “Libya”, and “Akal”. He established the A7LA5 in 2019. This marks his second collaboration with Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker after “3IRD5 @ W9RK” (2020).

TICKET INFO

PRICES

Tickets: (tax included/all seats reserved)
[General] S 8,000 JPY/A 5,000 JPY
[Under-25 years old] S 5,000 JPY/A 2,500 JPY
[SAF members] S 7,500 JPY/A 4,500 JPY

Ticket Inquiries
Saitama Arts Theater (E-mail Booking) : info-en@saf.or.jp

※U-25 tickets require ID verification upon entry.
※No entry for preschool children.
※Side balcony and some second-floor seats may have obstructed views.
※Seats up to Row D on the first floor have no step differences between rows.
※For wheelchair-accessible seating, please contact SAF Ticket Center when purchasing tickets (limited availability).
※Resale for profit is prohibited.
※Performance details are subject to change due to unforeseen circumstances.

ON SALE

GENERAL PUBLIC: Saturday, 28 March , 2026, 10:00 AM

SAITAMA ARTS FOUNDATION MEMBERS PRESALE: Friday, March 20, 2026, 10:00 AM

 

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