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Graduation 2010
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On June 20, the school year was officially ended with the handing over of the PARTS Diplomas and Training Certificates.
- Generation VIII: 24 students received the PARTS diploma - 20 of them have completed the four-year journey, four others only the Research Cycle.
- Generation IX: 31 students received the Certificate of Training Cycle.
At the start of the study, Generation VIII counted 36 students and Generation IX counted 35 Students.
The Graduation Ceremony took place in the studios of PARTS. It was attended by 200 guests, including many parents, relatives and friends of the graduates. Almost all participants faced a (very) far journey back home. They came from, for example, Paris, Bordeaux, Barcelona, Bratislava, Stockholm, Helsinki, Reykjavik, Lisbon, Rome, Tel Aviv, and even Los Angeles, Calgary and Buenos Aires!
The ceremony was led by Theo Van Rompay, deputy director of PARTS.
The participants were addressed by Hugo De Greef, president of PARTS, and special guest Jan Goossens, director of KVS Brussels. He the students goodbye with a speech in which he called the young artists to look to the city and the world. His speech can be downloaded here.
For every graduating student of the Research cycle Steven de Belder, coordinator of the Research Cycle, read a short text, written by teachers and choreographers who have worked with the students.
The Training Certificates were presented by Mia Lawrence, coordinator of the Training Cycle.
The Diplomas were presented by Pascal Smet, Minister of Education of the Flemish Community and by Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker, director.
In her moving closing statement Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker gave eleven 'wise counsels' for the young artist. She finished her speech with a letter R.M. Rilke to a young artist.
After the ceremony, the guests were invited for a drink, a dinner and a party.
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PARTS receives the Silver Lion at the Venice Biennale
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The Silver Lion was conceived as a new prize for young talent in the performing arts. The Biennale’s Golden Lion has since several years been awarded for lifelong artistic achievement. By contrast, the Silver Lion is intended as a recognition of the artists of the coming generations. Those who qualify for this new prize are promising artists from dance, theatre and music and institutions that distinguish themselves in the training of this young talent.
A Quote from the jury report: “Instituted quite recently (1995), the P.A.R.T.S. acquired immediate recognition throughout Europe as a centre of pedagogical innovation, with a complete and intensive programme of studies in which the most advanced techniques of contemporary dance dialogue with other artistic disciplines, in particular with theatre and music. A laboratory of movement which focuses not only on the development of the dancer’s skills, but on his search for artistic identity as well.”
The prize will be awarded on June 5 in the Teatro Piccolo in Venice.
Deputy director Theo Van Rompay and Research cycle coordinator Salva Sanchis will represent PARTS. Graduating students Aron Blom and Mikko Hyvönen will perform their piece Aron & Mikko thinking duet. |
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PARTS Graduation Tour 2010
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Updated July 7
In June, the 8th generation of PARTS students finishes its education: 24 dancers and choreographers from 12 different countries end their four-year education with the creation of graduation projects, that go on a tour in Belgium and abroad.
The different programs are very diverse: a new version of Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker's RE:Drumming, and several personal works that explore the boundaries of the idea of 'dance', between pure dance and theatrical performance.
Upcoming performances in the Summer:
Halle de Gombe, Centre culturel français de Kinshasa, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo (in the context of the 2ième plateforme des arts de la scène)
July 16, 17, 20.00
http://www.ccf-kinshasa.org/
The performances in Kinshasa are organised by KVS, the Royal Flemish Theatre in Brussels.
Tanzquartier, Vienna, Austria (in the context of the Impulstanz festival)
August 2, 20.00 RE:Drumming
August 2, 22.00 personal work 1
August 4: 20.00 RE:Drumming
August 4, 22.00 personal work 2
August 5, 20.00 RE:Drumming
August 5, 22.00personal work 3
www.impulstanz.com
Kanuti Gildi SAAL, Tallinn, Estonia (in the context of the Augusti Tantsu Festival 2010)
August 16, 20.00, RE:Drumming
August 17, 20.00, personal work
www.saal.ee
Koreografisk Center Archauz, Arhus, Denmark
August 20, personal work (The time-lapse opera)
www.archauz.dk
Hebbel am Ufer, Berlin, Germany (in the context of the Tanz im August festival)
August 26, 20.00, personal work (The kingdom of shades, +- even but odd, Aron & Mikko thinking duet..., Montage for three, Little perceptions)
August 27, 21.30, personal work (Time flies..., The desert of milestones, Trash talk, Being together without any voice)
August 28, 21.30, personal work (=Copying, Paper plane)
www.tanzimaugust.de
Past performances:
Rosas Performance Space, Brussels, Belgium (try-outs)
April 30, 20.00 RE:Drumming
May 4, 20.00, personal work 1
May 6, 20.00 personal work 2
May 8, 20.00 personal work 3
Free entrance. Reservations: mail@parts.be or T 02 344 55 98
LAB, Frankfurt, Germany (in the context of the plateaux festival)
May 9, 19.00, RE:Drumming
Stuk, Leuven, Belgium
May 11, 20.30, personal work 1
May 12, 20.30, RE:Drumming
Istanbul Sehir Tiyatrolari Uskudar M. Celal Sahnesi, Istanbul, Turkey (organisation: Bimeras/iDans, in the context of 'Young Theatre Days' of the City Theatre Istanbul)
May 14, 19.30, personal work (Light as a feather..., Trio Lej Lei, Little perceptions)
May 15, 19.30, personal work (Paper plane, Not about everything)
May 16, 15.00, personal work (I have to get ready, =Copying, Montage for three)
May 16., 19.30, personal work (It's not what..., Being together..., The time-lapse opera)
Künstlerhaus Mousonturm, Frankfurt, Germany (in the context of the plateaux festival)
May 19, 21.00, personal work 2
May 20, 21.00, personal work 3
May 21, 21.00, personal work (Not about everything, Montage for three)
Concertgebouw, Bruges, Belgium 
May 25, 20.00, RE:Drumming
May 26, 20.00, personal work 2
Teatro a Baraka, Lisbon, Portugal (in the context of the alkantara festival)
May 28, 23.00, personal work 3
May 29, 23.00, personal work 1
May 30, 17.00, personal work 2
Teatro Cine, Torres Vedras, Portugal
May 29, 21.00, RE:Drumming
Monty, Antwerp, Belgium
June 2, 20.30, RE:Drumming
June 3, 20.30, personal work 1
June 4, 20.30, personal work 2
June 5, 20.30 personal work 3
Kaaitheater, Brussels, Belgium
June 9, 20.30, personal work 1
June 11, 20.30, personal work 2
June 13, 20.30, personal work 3
June 19, 20.30, RE:Drumming
PACT Zollverein – Choreographisches Zentrum NRW, Essen, Germany
June 12, 20.00, personal work 1
De Brakke Grond, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
June 15, personal work 3
June 16, personal work 2
June 17, personal work 1
Compagnietheater, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (in the context of the ITs festival)
June 22, RE:Drumming
Vooruit, Gent, Belgium
June 24, 20.00, RE:Drumming
June 25, 20.00 personal work 2
June 26, 20.00, personal work 3
Vrijstaat O., Ostend, Belgium (in the context of the Dansand festival)
July 1, RE:Drumming
July 2, personal work + Regarding the area of the inseparable by Thomas Hauert
July 3, personal work
July 4, improvisation with musicians Bart Maris and Lander Gyselinck
The programs
RE:Drumming
Choreography: Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker
Dance: Salka Ardal Rosengren, Fanny Brouyaux, Anneleen Keppens, Cecilia Lisa Eliceche, Steven Michel, Anne Pajunen, Jonathan Pranlas, Marco Torrice, Petra Van Gompel, Anna K. Whaley, Stav Yeini, Elisa Yvelin
Personal work 1 (usually a program consists of the pieces marked with [G] and one or two of the others.
I have to get ready to get ready [G] by Peter Savel, with Stanislav Dobak, Peter Savel, Anaïs Van Eycken
Little perceptions [G] by Noé Soulier, with Thibault Lac, Daniel Linehan, Noé Soulier
Light as a feather, green as an apple [G] by Veli Lehtovaara & Maria Silva
Trio lio lei [G] by Mikko Hyvönen, with Aron Blom, Mikko Hyvönen, Guo Rui
The kingdom of shades by Noé Soulier
Not about everything by Daniel Linehan
Time flies... by Nicholas Aphane
Aron & Mikko thinking duet... by Aron Blom & Mikko Hyvönen
Personal work 2 (usually a program consists of the pieces marked with [G] and one or two of the others.
Being together without any voice [G] by Daniel Linehan, with Daniel Linehan, Anne Pajunen, Noé Soulier, Anna K. Whaley
It's not what but how... [G] by Jonathan Pranlas, with Jonathan Pranlas, Petra Van Gompel
The time-lapse opera [G] by Cecilia Lisa Eliceche & Elisa Yvelin
Trash talk [G] by Salka Ardal Rosengren & Mikko Hyvönen
Montage for three by Daniel Linehan, with Salka Ardal Rosengren, Daniel Linehan
star-dust by Marco Torrice, with Peter Savel, Marco Torrice, Stav Yeini
ad infinitum by Anneleen Keppens
The desert of milestones by Steven Michel
Personal work 3 (usually a program consists of the pieces marked with [G] and one or two of the others.
=Copying [G] by Nicholas Aphane, with Nicholas Aphane, Steven Michel
Paper plane [G] by Veli Lehtovaara, with Aron Blom, Mikko Hyvönen, Maria Silva
Mind the gap by Stav Yeini
The man by Anne Pajunen
Folksonomy by Noé Soulier with Salka Ardal Rosengren, Daniel Linehan, Anne Pajunen, Anna K Whaley |
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Audition Training Cycle concluded
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The final audition for the new PARTS Training Cycle (academic year 2010-2011) is finished!
Since January almost 1.000 dancers have participated in one of the 23 preselections in Europe, Russia, Asia, Australia and New Zealand. The largest number of participants showed up in Moscow (53), Barcelona (53), Stockholm (60), Marseille (64), Paris (66) and London (73).
All preselections were led by Mia Lawrence and Salva Sanchis, with the exception of Melbourne/Wellington (Ursula Robb), Tokyo (Jakub Truszkowski) and one of the Brussels preselections (David Hernandez).
135 participants received an invitation for the ultimate audition in PARTS (April 7-11). Finally 130 of them made the trip to Brussels.
During a five days intensive workshop the dancers immersed themselves in the world of PARTS: four classes of contemporary technique, each time with a different teacher (Lance Gries, David Hernandez, Francesco Scavetta, Mat Voorter), two classes of ballet (Marion Buchman, Libby Farr) and five hours of Rosas repertory (Marta Coronado, Clinton Stringer), concluded by a presentation before the jury.
Besides the dance classes, there were also two theater sessions (Natali Broods, Jolente De Keersmaeker, Tiago Rodrigues) a writing assignment (Steven De Belder), group talks and off course the presentations of personal work.
Jury members were Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, David Hernandez, Mia Lawrence, Salva Sanchis andTheo Van Rompay. They had the difficult task to select 36 new Training Cycle students out of the larger group of talented dancers.
Very soon we will present on this website the 10th Generation of PARTS, a colourful group of young dancers from all over the world. At the same time this group holds the largest Belgian selection ever in the history of PARTS and again, the boys strongly outnumber the girls.
PARTS wishes to thank all dancers, teachers, musical accompanists, local partners and jury members for their contribution to a long but successful selection period.
The next auditions for the Training Cycle will take place in 2012! |
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Summer School 2010
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posted 23-4-2010
Between August 3 and 27, PARTS in collaboration with Rosas organises a Summer School for professional dancers and dance students. The second edition is devoted to the repertoire of Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker. In workshops of two weeks or masterclasses of one week, dancers and former dancers of the Rosas company teach some choreographies from her repertoire: Drumming, Rain, Die Grosse Füge, Zeitung and Quatuor n°4, all works in which dance links itself to the music in a very specific way, and in which simple dance phrases generate ingenuous constructions.
Each working group will consist of maximum 20 participants (masterclasses only 8 dancers), in order to guarantee individual guidance and coaching by the teachers.
Each morning they can take a dance class by regular PARTS teachers.
There are not many opportunities for dancers outside of the regular PARTS program to get acquainted with this repertoire. The Summer School is thé opportunity to dance it yourself!
More information and an inscription form can be found here.
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Book publication: P.A.R.TS. - Documenting ten years of contemporary dance education
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posted 15/12/2007
In September 1995, the Performing Arts Research and Training Studios (P.A.R.T.S.) opened their doors in Brussels. It was the result of a dream shared by Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker (Rosas) and Bernard Foccroulle (De Munt/La Monnaie), a dream for an international school for contemporary dance that responded to the breakthroughs and challenges of the still-young contemporary dance scene in Belgium.
This book celebrates the 10th anniversary of PARTS. Teachers, students, former students and outsiders remember, recount and reflect on different aspects of the school: its mission, its program, its daily experience, its impact and its relation to the world. An extensive photo collection gives a view on students and teachers at work. The book finishes with an archive of facts and figures relating to 10 years of PARTS.
Edited by Steven De Belder and Theo Van Rompay
Published by PARTS
The book was published with the support of VGC (Vlaamse Gemeenschapscommissie), Nationale Loterij and the network Départs, which is supported by the European Commission (Programme Culture 2000).
The book can be bought in the following theatres: De Munt/ La Monnaie (Brussels), Buda Kunstencentrum (Kortrijk), Vooruit (Ghent), Monty (Antwerp), CCBe (Antwerp), deSingel (Antwerp), De Brakke Grond (Amsterdam).
And also in the following bookshops: De Reyghere (Bruges), Copyright (Ghent & Antwerp), Passa Porta (Brussels), International Theatre and film Bookshop (Amsterdam)
It is also available directly from PARTS: send an email to Martine Lange to order it.
Price: 20 euros
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2dance4hours
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24 hours of dancing on October 2 and 3: check here for some pictures and the full schedule of what happened! |
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Agenda 2009-2010
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Click on the date for more details.
October 2 16h - October 3 16h
2dance4hours: improvisation maraton at the chapel of Les Brigittines (Brxlbravo)
October 15, 16, 17, 18.00
Student works at Monty, Antwerp (Amperdans festival)
October 22, 23, 24
Student works at Bâtard festival, Brussels
November 3-5
Fall workshop for young dancers
December 3-12
December Dance in Bruges
January 9, 2010, afternoon
Open House
February 14-18
Workshop for young dancers
March 9, 10, 11, 12
danceXmusic at La Monnaie (Ars Musica festival)
April 30, May 4, 6, 8, 20.00
Try-outs graduation projects, Rosas Performance Space
May - August
Graduation tour, different venues across Belgium and Europe
June 16, 18, 22, 24, 20.00
Student Performances Summer 2010, at Beursschouwburg
August 3-27
Summer School 2010 |
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