The following teachers give classes and workshops at PARTS in 2009-2010.
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TRAINING CYCLE

Yoga: Mia Lawrence, Rita Poelvoorde
Ballet: Elisabeth Farr, Janet Panetta, Douglas Becker,Norio Yoshida
Contemporary: David Hernandez, Dominique Duszynski, Ori Flomin, Francesco Scavetta, Diane Madden, Rasmus Ölme Improvisation: Khosro Adibi, David Hernandez
Composition: Mia Lawrence, David Hernandez
Repertoire Rosas: Nordine Benchorf, Johanne Saunier
Repertoire William Forsythe: Thomas McManus, Douglas Becker, Ana Catalina Román
Theater: Willy Thomas, Jolente De Keersmaeker, Tiago Rodrigues
Theory: Aaron Schüster, Rudi Laermans, Bojana Cvejic
Singing: Lucy Grauman
Rhythm: Michel Debrulle, David Hernandez
Music analysis: Lucy Grauman, Kaat De Windt
Shiatsu: Nini Kossen
African dance: Germaine Acogny

RESEARCH CYCLE

Yoga: Mia Lawrence
Ballet: Elisabeth Farr, Janet Panetta
Contemporary: Thomas Hauert, Diane Madden, Kathleen Fischer, Salva Sanchis, Laura Aris Alvarez, Iñaki Azpillaga, Chrysa Parkinson, Gwen Welliver, Miguel Gutierrez, David Hernandez
Repertoire Rosas: Marta Coronado, Jakub Truszkowski
Repertoire Trisha Brown: Diane Madden
Choreography: Thomas Hauert, Salva Sanchis, John Jasperse
Theory: Aaron Schüster, Rudi Laermans, Bojana Cvejic, Lieven De Cauter, Steven De Belder

Following teachers also taught in 2008-2009 in Training and/or Research Cycle: 
Ballet: Louise Chardon, Marta Coronado 
Contemporary: Lance Gries,Judith Grodowitz, Katrina Warren,Jeremy Nelson, Jennifer Lacey, Khosro Adibi
Improvisation:: Nik Haffner, Tamas Moricz, David Zambrano 
Composition: Jonathan Burrows, Diane Madden, Thierry De Mey
Repertoire Rosas: Ursula Robb, Cynthia Loemij, Elizaveta Penkova 
Repertoire Trisha Brown: Lance Gries, Abby Yager, Katrina Warren 
Choreography: Kyle De Camp, Peter Vandenbempt, Dina Ed Dik, Jérôme Bel, Mia Lawrence, Xavier Le Roy, Bojana Cvejic, Kyle De Camp, David Hernandez
Theater: Frank Vercruyssen, Pavol Liska, Kelly Copper 
Theory: Gerald Siegmund, Ludo Abicht, Ramsay Burt
Shiatsu: Jan Vervecken 
Anatomy: Carl Meeusen

Following teachers have confirmed to teach in 2010-2011 in Training and/or Research Cycle: not available yet

Ludo Abicht is a philosopher and writer. He has taught philosophy, German literature and European Studies at universities and insititutes for higher education in the United States and Belgium.  After his retirement he is still visiting professor at the universities of Antwerp and Ghent and at PARTS. He has published a lot on issues such as utopia, marxism, the Middle East and leftist nationalism. Top

Senegalese dancer and choreographer Germaine Acogny is known as "the mother of African dance." She established her first dance studio in Senegal's capital, Dakar, in 1968 and has since become a major figure in African dance, blending contemporary dance with traditional African styles. She has been choreographer and artistic director of many dance companies and studios, including Mudra Afrique in Senegal, and Studio-Ecole-Ballet-Théaťre du 3è Monde in Toulouse, France. In 1997 she established the International Centre for Traditional and Contemporary African Dances, L'Ecole des Sables in Toubab Dialaw, Senegal; she is also the founder of the Jant-Bi Company, which has performed in Europe, Africa, and many other countries around the world, including the United States and Australia. Besides performance and choreography Acogny has been involved with promoting African dance around the world. She has been especially influential in France, where she has her European base at the Studio-Ecole-Ballet-Théaťre du 3è Monde in Toulouse. In 1997 she became Artist Director of the Dance Section of African Creation Department in Paris and of the Choreographic Meetings of Contemporary African Dance, posts that she held until 2000.Top

Laura Aris Alvarez studied at the Institut el teatre in Barcelona. Between 1996 and 1999 she was part of Lanònima Imperial Dance Company, in Barcelona. She was also associated with General Electrica collective. Between 1999 and 2008 was a member of Ultima Vez/ Wim Vandekeybus for the creations and touring of: Inasmuch as life is borrowed, Scratching the Inner Fields, Blush, What a body does not remember, Sonic Boom, Puur , Spiegel, Menske . She also performed in several dance films directed by Wim Vandekeybus. She regularly teaches workshops related to the Ultima Vez dance vocabulary and contemporary technique lessons internationally. She set up a research project Ejercicios de Duelo, and made choreographies for theatres in Costa Rica and Mexico.

Born in Spain, Iñaki Azpillaga is now a dance teacher based in Brussels teaching regular classes to the companies Ultima Vez, Need Co., Charleroi/Danses a. o. He has been leading workshops all around Europe. His dance studies are based on Basque folk dance, ballet, jazz, modern and contemporary dance. He has danced with Mathilde Monnier, Bocanada Danza, National Ballet Co. of Spain and has been part of many other productions.
The last ten years of his life have been in one way or another related to the work of Wim Vandekeybus at the company Ultima Vez. Iñaki Azpillaga danced with Ultima starting 1994, also participating in the creations of the pieces Mountains made of Barking, Alle grossen decken sich zu and Bereft of a Blissful Union. During that same period he has also danced in the pieces What the body does not remember and Her Body doesn’t fit her soul and was a tour repetitor for 7 for a secret never to be told. As choreographic assistant to Wim Vandekeybus he has participated on the creation of the pieces Inspite of wishing & wanting, Inasmuch as life is borrowed and Blush (1999 till 2002).
From 1997 on has been regularly teaching workshops related to the work of Ultima Vez. Top

Douglas Becker is a teacher, choreographer and first generation former dancer of William Forsythe’s Frankfurt Ballet. He restages Forsythe Repertory and teaches Ballet. His choreography has been presented on the stages of Belgium’s Royal Flemish Theatre, Switzerland’s Grand Theatre de Genève, and the Choreographic Centers of Grenoble and Nancy (France). He is guest faculty at PARTS Brussels, The National Conservatories of Lyon and Paris, New York University, and University of California Irvine, among others. His collaborative process of choreographic development improvises upon and utilizes dancers' individual talents and characteristics. A native of Dallas, Texas, he makes his home in Brussels, Belgium, and is returning resident artist in the Hollins University dance department and serving as the Hollins University European Dance coordinator for the program’s various international extended study projects. Top

Nordine Benchorf (France) danced with Marie-Jo Haas (Cie de l’Instant) before starting his dance studies at the CNDC in Angers. After a collaboration with Cie. Contre-Jour he became a member of Rosas, participating in the creation of ‘Ottone, Ottone’ (1988), ‘Achterland’ (1990), ‘Mozart – Concert Arias’ (1992) and the ‘Repertory Evening’ (2002). Later on, he worked with met Cie. Samuel Leborgue, Loïc Touzé, Needcompany, Ultima Vez/ Wim Vandekeybus, Catarina Sagna and the Amgod collective. He teaches workshops on the repertoire of Rosas and Ultima Vez.Top

Louise Chardon studied at the Paris National Music and Dance Conservatory.
In 1990, she signs with the National Ballet of Canada (Reid Anderson), then with the Royal Ballet of Flanders (Robert Denvers) and the Batsheva Dance Company (Ohad Naharin).
In 2002, she creates with Paolo Rudelli the collectif Lick the Toad and collaborates with him in many video/performance installations and projects.
At the same time she dances for Charleroi-danses (Frédéric Flamand) and since 2005, she takes part in some productions of Felix Rückert as Love Zoo, Secret Service and Messiah Game. Together with Luk Van den Dries she starts in 2007 the production house AndWhatBeside(s)Death and creates Ay¨n – La Baignoire du diable and Sensorama.

Kelly Copper was born in Gainesville, Florida in 1971. She received her training in playwriting and dramatic literature at Dartmouth College, and graduated from there in 1993. She moved to New York to follow the art scene there, and in 1995 enticed her partner Pavol Liska to join her there. The two together made performances until 1998, when they moved into photography and film. Copper trained and worked as a color printer and created work using found footage from home movies. This work was shown in New York at Anthology Film Archives, ABC No Rio, and Vertext List. In 2001, moved by Liska’s renewed interest in performance, she rejoined him and the two together created Nature Theater of Oklahoma in 2002. Today, they continue to make and tour work with their company, and are currently working on a new serial opera, entitled Life and Times. Copper has an MFA in playwriting from Brooklyn College, and together with Liska has taught performance workshops in Portland, Lisbon, Zagreb and New York. Top

Jeremy Nelson was a dancer with The Stephen Petronio Dance Company in New York from 1984-1992, and n 1991, he won a New York Dance and Performance (“Bessie”) Award for outstanding performance with that company. He is a member of the teaching faculty at Movement Research in New York and a guest artist at Connecticut College.
For the last eighteen years, he has been teaching classes and workshops all over the world at studios and festivals. He has been presenting his choreography since 1994, at various venues in New York such as Lincoln Center Out-of-Doors, Danspace Project at St Mark’s Church, PS 122 and Dance Theater Workshop as well as in various countries, including Venezuela, England, New Zealand, Germany, Chile and Spain. He has created commissioned works on companiesin Venezuela (1993), Greece (1995), New Zealand (1998), and England (1999), and was also commissioned in 2002 to create a new work for Phoenix Dance Company in Leeds. Top

After his career as a dancer, Rasmus Ölme founded, in 2001, his group REFUG in Sweden and since then he produces his own work and teaches worldwide. Since September 2008 Rasmus is doint his PhD in Choreography at the University College of Dance, in Stockholm, Sweden.Top

From a young age, Janet Panetta studied ballet with Margaret Craske,  Antony Tudor and Alfredo Corvino at the Metropolitan Opera Ballet School. At 14, she became Margaret Craske’s teaching assistant, which served as on-the-job training for her lifelong career in dance education. 
Janet joined American Ballet Theatre in 1968, and later began her foray into modern dance as a member of Paul Sanasardo’s company. She went on to work with Robert Kovich, Neil Greenberg, Susan Salinger, Peter Healey, and countless other modern companies, while continuing to teach. 
In the 1980s, she began working internationally, and in 1984 the French asked Janet to be the only ballet teacher at their newly created school for contemporary dancers. Her class consisted of twenty students, all of whom went on to professional careers, including the renowned choreographer Jerome Bel. 
In her 1989 New York Times article, “Why Certain Performers are a Breed Apart,” Jennifer Dunning of the New York Times called Janet’s performing, “Quietly indelible, intense and harply focused, with a smoky, smoldering aura.” She definitely got that right! 
Janet currently works with PARTS and with Pina Bausch Tanztheater Wupperthal. In addition, she teaches at Impulstanz in Vienna each summer, and maintains her own New York Studio, where she serves as artistic director of International Dance Dialogues, a program that hosts many European artists workshops and lectures. Top

Chrysa Parkinson is a performer and teacher living in Brussels. She teaches regularly at P.A.R.T.S/Rosas and works as a mentor/coordinatorfor the 2nd cycle students. She also teaches regularly at Dancentrum Jette in Brussels, Panetta Movement Center in New York, and atImpulstanz in Vienna. She is a member of ZOO/Thomas Hauert, and has also worked with Jonathan Burrows, Deborah Hay, John Jasperse, Meg Stuart, and David Zambrano. She was a member of Tere O’Connor Dance for many years in New York where she also performed with Irene Hultman, and Jennifer Monson, among other artists. During that time she taught at Movement Research and at NYU.  She was awarded a Bessie for sustained achievement as a performer in 1996.
In 2008 Chrysa worked as a teacher researching performance practices in Montpellier with 6M1L and Ex.e.r.c.e. From her work in Montpellier she is writing and recording audio essays on practice. In 2009/10 she is also working as a performer on creations with Jonathan Burrows, Mette Ingvartsen, and Rosas. Top

Elizaveta Penkóva was born in St Petersburg, Russia in 1981, and obtained the Swedish nationality in 1999. She studied ballet at The Royal Swedish Ballet School in Stockholm where she graduated in 1999. In June 2002 she graduated from the first cycle of P.A.R.T.S. in Brussels. The same year she took part in the final of The European Dance Contest together with Johan Thelander, where they performed their own choreography "At this point". After P.A.R.T.S. Elizaveta joined The Gothenburg Opera Ballet, where she danced in " Swanlake2" by Jorma Uotinen, and in " The Nutckracker" by Pär Isberg. On January 1st, 2003, she joined Rosas to take part in the creation process of 'Bitches Brew / Tacoma Narrows', 'Kassandra'. Since then she has danced in the revival of 'Mozart / Concert Arias', 'Rain', and participated in the creation of 'Raga for the rainy season / A love Supreme', 'D’un soir un jour', 'Bartok, Beethoven, Schoenberg -Repertory Evening', 'Steve Reich Evening' and 'Zeitung'. Top