Mitten

Mitten follows the final weeks of rehearsal of Mitten wir im Leben sind the performance by Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker her company Rosas and cellist JeanGuihen Queyras based on the six cello suites by Johann Sebastian Bach The film offers an intimate glance into De Keersmaekers meticulous methodology in which a choreographic universe is built up through a careful study of musical composition This intense creative process of continuously reshaping and honing characterised by De Keersmaekers inexhaustible longing for precision and detail is reflected in the filmmakers patient look at the work of the choreographer the musician and dancers