Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker: Il Cimento dell’Armonia e dell’Inventione tickets

Everyone knows Vivaldi’s Four Seasons. Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker and Radouan Mriziga make it strange again. In Il Cimento dell’Armonia e dell’Inventione they take the most familiar music in the world, Vivaldi‘s storms and birdsong and thaw, set to Amandine Beyer and Gli Incogniti‘s electric recording, and open it out into pattern, geometry, and moving bodies until the score sounds new. Spring arrives, and it is no longer a ringtone but a question about a planet whose seasons no longer hold.

De Keersmaeker is one of the defining choreographers of the last half-century, and this is her closing the season with a beloved warhorse turned into a fresh act of attention. Lucid, meditative, and quietly urgent, it asks what Vivaldi’s hymn to nature means now, when nature itself has come unsettled.