Back in 2020, with 3ird5 @ w9rk performed in the garden of the Maison des Arts in Brussels, Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker and Radouan Mriziga had already chosen to tend their "intimate gardens" together. Today, their practices merge in Il Cimento dell’Armonia e dell’Inventione, a choreographic counterpoint to the musical world of The Four Seasons, particularly the recording made by violinist Amandine Beyer and her ensemble Gli Incogniti, who are long-time accomplices of the Rosas company. Precisely three centuries after it was composed in the Mediterranean, at the crossroads of different continents, Antonio Vivaldi's work invites us to reflect upon the geopolitical dynamics of the region and on the sharing of knowledge, power, and stories that it symbolises. While both Vivaldi's music and the natural world are familiar to us, the piece is an opportunity for the two choreographers to share "their concern about the harmful evolution of our connection with nature, and about the role and responsibility of art and artists in this critical period." Their exploration of this icon of classical music involves research they have carried out on the way the body relates to architecture, movement and space, based on "the observation of nature, geometry, and embodied abstraction."

Coproduction Festival de Marseille 

In corealisation with LE ZEF - scène nationale de Marseille