How Did Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker End Up Becoming A Broadway Choreographer?

“Though [she] won’t say much about her plans for [next year’s revival of] West Side Story just yet, she did admit that it’s not a project she would have ever thought she’d be doing. But her rewarding experience directing the large-scale Così fan tutte at the Paris Opéra last year — another project she never thought she’d do — plus the chance to work with Ivo van Hove and explore a key work in the history of musical theater convinced her to say yes when van Hove asked her to choreograph.”