Beyoncé v De Keersmaeker: can you copyright a dance move?

works often refer to other works of art, what is the Belgian choreographer accused the star of the R & B of plagiarism in his new music video

To read about Beyoncé Knowles and Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker in the same sentence is rare. Beyoncé is ... Well, you know that Beyonce is and Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker is a choreographer and leader of Belgium. This week was collected by De Keersmaeker's assertion that the Texas-born R & B artist has plagiarized a couple of his ballets experimental Achterland danst Rosas Rosas. It may be right. Countdown to new Beyonce video directed by Adria Petty, and 1997, see Thierry De Mey film danst Rosas Rosas (company name De Keersmaeker) and can see movement very similar in both works. They are a small part of everything, but they are there.

Initially Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker was quite acidic on the issue, saying she had seen children from local schools to better perform their duties, and expressing astonishment at the team the boldness of Beyoncé. "I'm crazy, but it is plagiarism. This is a holdup, "he told Studio Brussel. And a point that has to sympathize with it the notion of the artist torn by the corporate machine is not edifying. Attitude is certainly arrogant petty . "I made a number of references Beyonce and take a few together. Most of the references were German modern dance, believe it or not," he told MTV, possibly under the impression that refers to the work of the late Pina Bausch than Belgians (and lively) De Keersmaeker.

• But it is the work of the career of Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker or damaged in any way? It would be a difficult case to make, even if their author has been technically violated. Works of art often refer to other works of art. In his ballet of the evening of a United Nations days Keersmaeker includes part of the choreography of Vaslav Nijinsky's Afternoon of a Faun fragment of the UN and the Antonioni film Blow-Up. Beyoncé videos often contain references to films or other works of performance art. Video Phone, for example, includes a photograph of Reservoir Dogs. Naughty Girl was inspired by Fred Astaire and Cyd Charisse in The Band Wagon. Why Do not You Love Me is a tribute to the actor and pin-up Betty Page, Deja Vu and part homage to Basic Instinct.

The video gives us the countdown to an assembly of three and a half minutes of the 60's and 70's pop culture channel with Beyoncé, among others, Audrey Hepburn in Funny Face, Monica Vitti in Modesty Blaise, Jennifer Beals in Flashdance, and Diana Ross Supremes in its manifestation. He is very polite, very new piece of retro-cinema, and the image taken is absolutely the point of it. For directors like Petty, not works of art is set in its original form. Everything is there, ready to be sampled, recycling, recontextualized. But there is, as Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker said, "the protocols and the consequences of those actions, and I can not imagine that (Beyonce) and his team are not aware."

Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker is a complex woman. Shy, intense, and often in conflict with journalists, which is known for his soft touch. But it retains a great affection for his dancers, and in his last statement, Beyonce said that was four months pregnant at the time of the countdown of the shoot, just as it was in 1996 when the film was made of Mey . So today, she says generously: "I can only wish the same joy that my daughter gave me." It's a strange reaction. But it can not be the end of history, and Dance fans will probably be the analysis of Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker evidence known to work with some rigor. Is this a quote from the Bootylicious video? The phrase was borrowed from Freakum Dress

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