Allegations against choreographer Anna Teresa De Keersmaeker and ballet director Xenia Wiest

Moody, authoritarian, ruthless: There are serious allegations against the leadership style of the world-famous choreographer Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker. And in Schwerin, the ballet director Xenia Wiest was fired.

A crystal-clear day in March 2022, shortly after the reopening of the New National Gallery in Berlin: A world-class dance star is making a guest appearance in Mies van der Rohe’s spectacular glass architecture. Belgian choreographer Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker has traveled from Brussels with two dancers to set a site-specific version of her museum format “Dark Red” against the setting sunlight. The woman who made dance socially acceptable in sneakers and a black suit and placed her entire work under the motto “My walking is my dancing” circles strictly geometric shapes on the museum parquet – flanked by the dancers who belong to her company Rosas and are directed by the master with a brief nod of the head.