A Love Supreme

Choreographers Salva Sanchis and Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker found each other through their shared fascination with John Coltrane. Taking his album A Love Supreme as a starting point, in 2005 they created a quartet that wove the improvisation and composition of the album into a seamless whole as a dance piece. With their distinctly energetic interpretation, now rewritten for four young male dancers, they emphasize the power of Coltrane's ode to divine love. A Love Supreme is a quartet created by Salva Sanchis and Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker based on John Coltrane's album of the same name. This collaboration, which began in 2005, is an encounter between two choreographers who find common ground in their shared fascination with this iconic music. In A Love Supreme, Coltrane and his musicians build a total, absolute freedom of improvisation based on a simple fundamental structure, in which they incessantly push boundaries. This translates literally into the dance: for this performance, the choreographers take on the challenge of weaving improvisation and composition into a seamless whole. For this new version, Sanchis and De Keersmaeker rewrote their 2005 choreography into a piece for four young male dancers. With their distinctly energetic interpretation, they emphasize the power of Coltrane's ode to divine love.• Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker created Asch (her first choreographic work) in 1980, following her dance studies at Mudra in Brussels and the Tisch School of the Arts in New York. Fase, Four Movements to the Music of Steve Reich premiered two years later. In 1983, De Keersmaeker founded the dance company Rosas in Brussels, during the development of the performance Rosas danst Rosas. Her choreographic work is based on a meticulous exploration of the relationship between dance and music. With Rosas, she has created a comprehensive oeuvre that utilizes musical structures and scores from different eras, from early music to contemporary composition and pop. Her choreographic practice also derives formal principles from geometry, mathematical schemes, nature, and social structures –resulting in a unique perspective on the movement of the body in time and space. In 1995, De Keersmaeker founded the Performing Arts Research and Training Studios (P.A.R.T.S.) school in Brussels. Over the past ten years, her work has also explored the visual arts, producing projects in museum contexts such as the Louvre, Tate Modern, and MoMA. In 2023, she created EXIT ABOVE with a cast of 13 dancers, and in 2024 Il Cimento dell’Armonia e dell’Inventione, inspired by Antonio Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons. Her latest creation BREL (2025) is a collaboration with dancer and choreographer Solal Mariotte. • Salva Sanchis moved to Belgium in 1995 to study at P.A.R.T.S. He was part of the school's first generation of graduates. Since his graduation piece Less than a moment (1998), he has created more than twenty full-length pieces. The dialogue between improvisation and established movement language is characteristic of his work, often expressed in conjunction with music. His most recent production is Radical Light (2016), a piece for five dancers. In 2003, Salva danced freelance with Rosas for Bitches Brew / Tacoma Narrows. This led to a choreographic trajectory with Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker that culminated in the collaborations Desh (2004) and A Love Supreme (2005). For the past 18 years, alongside his work as a choreographer he has also been active in education and teaches at dance schools throughout Europe.