Mystery Sonatas - for Rosa

In 1980, after studying dance at the Mudra School in Brussels and the Tisch School of the Arts in New York, Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker (b. 1960) created Asch, her first choreographic work. Two years later came the premiere of Fase, Four Movements to the Music of Steve Reich. De Keersmaeker founded the dance company Rosas to Brussels in 1983, while creating the work Rosas danst Rosas. to depart from these revolutionary pieces, her choreography was based on a rigorous and prolific exploration of the relationship between dance and music. She has created a large body of work with Rosas that involves musical structures and scores from different periods, from early music to contemporary and popular idioms. His choreographic practice also draws formal principles from geometry, numerical patterns, the natural world and social structures to offer a unique perspective on the articulation of the body in space and time. In 1995 De Keersmaeker founded P.to.R.T.S. (Performing Arts Research and Training Studios) to Brussels in association with De Munt/La Monnaie.

Amandine Beyer is recognized as a reference in the interpretation of Baroque violin repertoire. Her 2012 recording of Johann Sebastian Bach's Sonatas and Partitas received several awards (Diapason d'or de l'année, Choc de Classica de l'année, Editor's choice de Gramophone, Prix Academie Charles Cros, Excepcional de Scherzo, and others). Her work with these Partitas continued with the performance Partita 2, choreographed from Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker and danced from De Keersmaeker and Boris Charmatz in 2013. Beyer has performed in theaters and festivals around the world, including Théatre du Chatelet, Festival de Sablé, Innsbrucker Festwochen der Alten Musik, and the Wiener Konzerthaus, and is a member of various musical ensembles, including Les Cornets Noirs, duos with Pierre Hantaï, Kristian Bezuidenhout, Laurence Beyer, and her own ensemble, Gli Incogniti. He teaches at ESMAE (Escola Superior de Música e Artes do Espetáculo) in Porto and gives master classes all over the world: France, Taiwan, Brazil, Italy, Spain, the United States, Canada. He has been teaching baroque violin at Schola Cantorum Basiliensis, Switzerland, since 2010.

Rosas is the company of choreographer and dancer Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker. It was founded in 1983 on the occasion of the creation of the piece Rosas danst Rosas. Since her debut in 1982 with Fase, Four Movements to the Music of Steve Reich, De Keersmaeker has engaged in a rigorous exploration and articulation of movement, from its simplest to its most complex forms. The relationship between movement and music is essential to De Keersmaeker's concept of dance. Rosas has expanded the art of dance as an act of writing movements in space and time, and over the years has explored choreography in collaboration with other compositional forces, such as music, geometry, visual arts, and language. De Keersmaeker's engagement with these disciplines has brought to collaborations with experts-musicians, composers, visual artists, actors, writers-who have, at different times, been integral to and performers in Rosas' productions. Parallel to the creation of new pieces, Rosas continues to to perform and teach the existing repertoire, which now spans a period of 30 years. In this way, the company's artistic past continues to be passed on to new generations of dancers and audiences. from when De Keersmaeker's early works began to gaining international attention, Rosas has built a strong and vital presence in the dance world, engaging theaters, repertory companies,opera theaters, festivals, venues, exhibition spaces and educational platforms. Thanks to the partnership and support of theopera De Munt/La Monnaie theater-where Rosas was in residence from 1992 to 2007-and the Kaaitheater, the company has been able to take advantage of a stable "home" and promote several projects such as P.to.R.T.S., Bal Moderne, and WorkSpaceBrussels. These initiatives, made possible with the support of Rosas, started from the beginning in completely independent organizations, giving space to new projects within the company, such as Dancingkids and RondOmDans.

Rosas to Brussels facilities are home to multiple artistic activities. The campus is currently shared with P.to.R.T.S. and the contemporary music ensemble Ictus, and the spaces are also made to available to WorkSpaceBrussels, Summer Studios and numerous companies and artists. This space is one of the pivotal places to Brussels where established and emerging artists can meet and interact in mutually enriching encounters.

Founded in 2006 from a group of friends, brought together by violinist Amandine Beyer, the ensemble takes its name from the Accademia degli Incogniti, an artistic and academic circle that was among the most active and libertarian in 17th-century Venice. The spirit of this Accademia - a taste for the unknown in all its forms, sonic experimentation, the search for new repertoires, the rediscovery of "classics" and lesser-known masterpieces - guides the Incogniti from their beginnings until today. The genuine pleasure they take in playing together meets their main ambition, which is to convey a committed and coherent vision of the pieces they perform, linked to their personal sensibilities and tastes. Today, the group ranks among the best ensembles for historically informed interpretation.