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De Keersemaeker sinks through the bottom of what is still dance in '3Abschied'

 Text Maarten Baanders (photo Herman Sorgeloos)
Having already reduced sensory labour to a minimum in Keeping Still - Part I and The Song, dance philosopher Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker confronts the most extreme reduction possible in life in the final part of the trilogy, 3Abschied: death. Her choice of music again falls on Der Abschied, the final movement of Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde.

Is it possible to dance to music about death and acceptance

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 Text Maarten Baanders (photo Herman Sorgeloos)
Having already reduced sensory labour to a minimum in Keeping Still - Part I and The Song, dance philosopher Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker confronts the most extreme reduction possible in life in the final part of the trilogy, 3Abschied: death. Her choice of music again falls on Der Abschied, the final movement of Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde.

Is it possible to dance to music about death and acceptance

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