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Performance Charles Ngombengombe in Bornem On 24 February, the student Charles Ngombengombe will perform his solo MUZIM. He created that solo for P.A.R.T.S. in 2012 and has performed it a couple of times afterwards as well.This Sunday, you can go and see him at PACTT Dance Festival, a cultural, cross-borders collaboration between Belgium, the Netherlands, Israel and Germany. For more information and tickets, click here.
Student Performances Winter 2012 In September 2012, 26 students started the Research Cycle: 17 students came from the Training Cycle, and 9 new students were selected in the international auditions of Spring 2012. Together, they are generation X. P.A.R.T.S. Student Performances Winter 2012 Program: Friday 21 December, 20.00u
Winter Studios - Residency project January - February 2013 In January and February 2013, PARTS organises a special residency project in its studios. Since all the PARTS students are abroad in this period, PARTS opens up its 5 studio spaces for young choreographers to create and develop work – rehearsals, creation, research, from January 2 until February 22. The Winter Studios offer 5 professional dance studios (from 84 m2 to 240 m2), with sprung floor, mirrors, sound installation, TV and dvd-player. The PARTS kitchen offers a macrobiotic lunch for 5€, if you register beforehand. If you are interested to come and work in the studios, send us an email before December 1st. The number of spaces is limited. The earlier you react, the more chance we can offer you the space and time you are looking for! For more information and sending your proposals, contact Marieke Goetinck. The Winter Studios are organised with the support of the network DEPARTS. DEPARTS is funded by the European Commission (Culture program).
TRACES - a public event at WIELS Contemporary Art Gallery TRACES - a public event at WIELS Contemporary Art GalleryTRACES: tracing the “I” a public event at WIELS Contemporary Art Gallery, was the conclusion of a 3 week workshop with 11 students, led by Mia Lawrence. The workshop moved from an intimate practice of self observation, meditation, and discussion to a public sharing of movement practices emerging from explorations in physical states and embodied image. In an atmosphere of quiet presence, events and images appeared and disappeared, part of the public space, to be watched continually or intermittently. To conclude, the students had one on one, personal encounters with people in the museum cafe.
Photos: Bart Grietens
Lucinda Childs at P.A.R.T.S., Saturday 13 October 2012 In the middle of October, Lucinda Childs showed her performance Dance, from 1979, in Brussels. The students of P.A.R.T.S. went to Kaaitheater to see the performance, and received Lucinda Childs in school on Saturday 13 October. P.A.R.T.S. decided to invite Lucinda Childs for a conversation moderated by Michel Uytterhoeven. Uytterhoeven, at that time director of the dance festival Klapstuk in Leuven, was the first one to have Childs perform in Belgium in 1985, and thus he proved to be the moderator par excellence. On Friday evening 12 October the audience and the students could already participate in an aftertalk, but on Saturday 13 October, they nevertheless discovered other aspects of Childs’s work during the talk in the school. It most certainly was a very interesting experience!
Photo: Barts Grietens
Opening academy year 2012-2013 A week ago schools all over the world opened their gates after a long and relaxing holiday to welcome old and new students. The same happened at P.A.R.T.S.: on 3 September generation X started its first year of Research Cycle.
Student performances September 2012 After the success of the Student Performances Summer 2012 in Antwerp, the students of P.A.R.T.S. will open the school year with a reprise of the repertory pieces Achterland and A Love Supreme, together with some of their solos, this time in Brussels! On 6, 7 and 8 September they will perform in the Rosas Performance Space in Forest. Practical information: Program: Solos: Achterland – cast 1 - Break - A Love Supreme – cast 1 Solos: Balázs Busa (HU), Jeanne Colin (FR), Alexandra Dolgova (RU), Taha Ghauri (GB), Inga Huld Hákonardóttir (IS), Rósa Omarsdóttir (IS), Krišj?nis Sants (LV), Kathryn Vickers (US) - Break - A Love Supreme – cast 1 Solos: - Break - Solo: A Love Supreme – cast 2
This Summer PARTS organises its fourth SummerSchool - July 2-27, four weeks, Monday to Friday. SummerSchool offers the opportunity to a large community of dancers to take classes with faculty members and guest teachers of PARTS. Technical classes take place in the morning; in the afternoon a choice can be made between workshops in composition and improvisation, and workshops on the repertoire of Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker. Morning classes include ballet and contemporary dance. The teachers are Anne-Linn Akselsen, Douglas Becker, Dominique Duszynski, Libby Farr, Ayman Harper, David Hernandez, Matej Kejzar, Roberto Olivan, Rasmus Olme, Francesco Scavetta, Clinton Stringer, and Sandy Williams. Workshops will be taught by Anne-Linn Akselsen, Jonathan Burrows, Michel Debrulle, Thomas Hauert, David Hernandez, Matej Kejzar, Martin Kilvady, Adrian Minkowicz, Martin Nachbar, Roberto Olivan, Johanne Saunier, and Francesco Scavetta. Several repertoire pieces of Rosas can be studied, i.e. Drumming, Elena’s Aria, Grosse Fuge, Rain, and Zeitung. Teachers include Nordine Benchorf, Alix Eynaudi, Nadine Ganase, Mark Lorimer, Taka Shamoto, Igor Shysko, Clinton Stringer, and Sandy Williams. SummerSchool offers classes and workshops mainly for dance amateurs (basic level) and dance students (medium level). Some classes and workshops however require an advanced level. Basic level: you have little experience in taking dance classes. Or maybe it will even be your first dance class ever…
Sunday 24 June was D-day for the students of generation IX: they would receive their PARTS diplomas and be leaving the school for the first time as ex-students…
It was a drizzly Sunday afternoon, that 24 June. The rain and wind showed Brussels’s greyest side, when the students, their parents and friends gathered together, each and all put on one’s best. After four years of intensive dancing and training, doing research and creating, they would finally receive the one and only PARTS diploma.After everybody took their seats in one of the studios, for the occasion redecorated as a ceremony location, Theo Van Rompay, deputy director of the school, opened the graduation with a short speech. Right after that speech, the students of generation X received their Training Certificate from Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, director of the school. The school also invited a guest speaker: this year, the stage was given to Joost Vandecasteele, a Belgian writer, director and stand-up-comedian. His speech, in which he wishes the 16 graduating Research students of generation IX the best for the future, can be read here. The students and their guests, as well as all the other people present, were visibly enjoying those wishes, brought with the right balance between witty truth and a touch of humorius irony. Chuckles and outbursts of laughter spontaneously filled the place.
Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker was the last to speak. She asked the students three questions, with which she herself is confronted in interviews rather often: can dance save the world? Why, of all the different art forms, did you choose performance arts? And why did you choose dance specifically? The fresh ex-students should keep on asking themselves those question throughout their career. And then, finally, the moment was there: the official handing over of the PARTS diplomas. Of the 35 students that started the Training Cycle in 2008, and the two students who joined the Research Cycle in 2010, 16 graduated last Sunday: Polina Akhmetzyanova, Eleanor Campbell, Louis Combeaud, José Paulo dos Santos, Camille Durif Bonis, Néstor García Díaz, Pavle Heidler, Youness Khoukhou, Védís Kjartansdóttir, Renan Martins de Oliveira, Radouan Mriziga, Alma Palacios, Siet Raeymaekers, Mohamed Toukabri, Michiel Vandevelde and Cyriaque Villemaux. The day ended with a delicious buffet made by our own chef Wendy Contrino and her kitchenteam, and a party never to forget.
Students who received the Training Certificate (generation X) Graduating students of the Research Cycle (generation IX) Photos: Barts Grietens
The students of the fourth year (Generation IX) end their education with the creation of graduation pieces. This year, all students made six personal works, bewteen duet and quintet. A new geenration of young choreographers and dancers is ready for the world, presenting a broad palette of possible approaches to dance. six dufferent pieces present as many different types of composition, theatricality and movement. The six peices will be shown at the audiences in Belgian and international theatres and festivals, in three different programs which also include a re-run of the repertoire project 'Zeitung/ fragments' and two peronal works created earlier.
Programme 1: Natural order is a special case by Louis Combeaud & Vedis Kjartansdottir // 111-1 by José Paulo dos Santos, Youness Khoukhou, Radouan Mriziga & Mohamed Toukabri // Now and Then, Here and There by Nestor Garcia Diaz, with Polina Akhmetzyanova, Camile Durif Bonis, Nestor Garcia Diaz, Siet Raeymaekers, Cyriaque Villemaux Programme 2: “Behind the sun,” he repeated, “where Everything is Everything else”. by Pavle Heidler & Eleanor Campbell / shipibo- by Polina Akhmetzyanova & Alma Palacios / Zeitung/fragments by Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker & Alain Franco, with Louis Combeaud, José Paulo dos Santos, Youness Khoukhou, Renan Martins de Oliveira, Radouan Mriziga, Mohamed Toukabri Programma 3: HangHang by Renan Martins de Oliveira with Anne-Laure Dogot & Renan Martins de Oliveira / EN by Camille Durif Bonis & Cyriaque Villemaux, with Polina Akhmetzyanova, Eleanor Campbell, Louis Combeaud, Camille Durif Bonis, José Paulo dos Santos, Nestor Garcia Diaz, Pavle Heidler, Youness Khoukhou, Védis Kjartansdottir, Renan Martins de Oliveira, Radouan Mriziga, Alma Palacios, Siet Raeymaekers, Mohamed Toukabri, Michiel Vandevelde, Cyriaque Villemaux / G#$*&!/Disagreement?/How to dance things with doing by Camille Durif Bonis, Nestor Garcia Diaz, Siet Raeymaekers, Michiel Vandevelde & Cyriaque Villemaux Performance dates: Rosas Performance Space - Brussel STUK Kunstencentrum, Leuven May 15 Aktovy Zal, Moscow, Russia (organisation: International Center for Dance and Performance TSEKH) May 18-20 De Brakke Grond, Amsterdam, The Netherlands May 24-25-26
Concertgebouw,Bruges May 29-30 Teatro Maria Matos, Lisbon, Portugal (organisation: Alkantarafestival): June 6-7-9 Kunstencentrum Vooruit, Ghent June 14-15-16
Dansand festival, Ostend June 30 PACT Zollverein - Choreographisches Zentrum NRW, Essen Germany July 6-7 Tanz im August/ HAU3, Berlin, Germany August 12-13 Dans l'Afrique Danse festival, Johannesburg, South Africa iDans festival, Istanbul, Turkey
Student performances Summer 2012 in Antwerp - June 13-16 The Student Performances Summer 2012 will exceptiopnally take place in Antwerp this year. At the invitation of arts center Villanella, the students of the 2nd year occupy the stage at DE Studio for four days. They will present repertoire and a selection of their solos. The program can be found underneath. Solo’s: Maïté Jeannolin (FR) – Drifting Charles Ngombengombe (ZW) - MUZIM Taha Ghauri (GB) - The Devil's Workshop Achterland – cast 1 Balázs Busa (HU), Jeanne Colin (FR), Peter De Vuyst (BE), Inga Huld Hákonardóttir (IS), Rósa Omarsdóttir (IS), Krišj?nis Sants (LV), Sara Leah Tan Siyin (SG), Esse Vanderbruggen (BE)
Solo’s: András Déri (HU) - Me, Myself and I Bryana Fritz (US) - Birds Ben McEwen (GB) - Like a complete unknown Christoffer Schieche (SE) - "Die Hamletmaschine by Christoffer Schieche" BREAK Achterland - cast 2 Jeanne Colin (FR), Alexandra Dolgova (RU), Inga Huld Hákonardóttir (IS), Rósa Omarsdóttir (IS), Camille Prieux (FR), Roman Van Houtven (BE), Alexander Vantournhout (BE), Kathryn Vickers (US) Solos: Erik Eriksson - Dimaryp Jeanne Colin - Woman Reading in Bed Nathan Jardin - Comes a fire, then you know just what to do Rósa Omarsdóttir - Not Far From Belle Reve Kathryn Vickers - Creative Property Achterland – cast 3 Solo’s: Peter De Vuyst - Life, Section 11 Camille Prieux - One (Un) Inga Huld Hákonardóttir - Do humans dream of android sleep? Thanks: Andros Zinz Browne, Ben McEwen, Bryana Fritz, Christoffer Schieche, Karel Burssens, Katie Vickers, Rósa Ómarsdóttir Jason Respilieux Krišj?nis Sants – Auseklis
From Wednesday 9 to Saturday 12 May deSingel organises its annual dance and performance festival BougeB. This fifth edition will be fully taken up by P.A.R.T.S., with creations from ex-students and current students. During four days, you will see dancers that graduated in 2002, 2006,2008 and 2010: Jurij Konjar, Marlene Monteiro Freitas, Albert Quesada en Veli Lehtivaara respectively. They will perform solos or duets witlh dancers whom they met during their dance career: Vera Tussing and Petra Söör. On Thursday 10 May, the current P.A.R.T.S.-students of the tenth generation will take over the stage. They will show works made for the project danceXmusic, that was in January organised for the second time as cooperation between P.A.R.T.S. and La Monnaie, together with the Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel. On Saturday 12 May the Research Cycle students of P.A.R.T.S. will perform their graduation pieces in a marathon in Monty, Antwerp. That premiere is the start of their national and international graduation tour, with which they end their curriculum in P.A.R.T.S. Info and tickets: www.desingel.be
PARTS at the Week of the Art at School in Wallonia - May 7-8, 2012 Within the framework of the “Week of the Art at School” in Charleroi, the CDEWJ (Centre Dramatique de Wallonie pour l’Enfance et la Jeunesse) invited two students of P.A.R.T.S. to perform the choreography they created in January for danceXmusic2. During four days, from 7 to 11 May, students of 2,5 to 20 years old meet students of other schools from different regions in Wallonia to exchange experiences and to meet other artists, who for the occasion are invited to talk about their work, or to reveal extracts of their work-in-progress. The CDWEJ invited Ben McEwen and Krišj?nis Sants to perform their work Construct on 7 and 8 May. They made a choreography on op Sergey Prokofievs Adagio - String Quartet N°2 in F Major. More information: www.cdwej.be
Open Fridays for candidate students - February-March 2012 Throughout the academic year, P.A.R.T.S. will open its doors on certain Fridays for young dancers interested in participating in the auditions. On such days, the school shows its daily routine: one can see students and teachers working together in specific courses, and get information about the school and the auditions. You will be able to be present during the classes, but it is not possible to actively participate in the courses! The amount of participants is limited, so make sure to register in advance! An Open Friday starts at 09.30 with a short introduction. Until 12.50 you will be able to attend the technical classes (ballet and contemporary dance) of the Training and Research Cycle. It will, occasionally, also be possible to partly witness the afternoon workshops, but that will only shortly in advance be communicated to the people who registered for that day. Attention: please make sure to be present at 09.30! For practical reasons, it is not possible to admit people that arrive late. You can send an e-mail to eva@parts.be to enroll. Do not forget to mention the date of your preference! The Open Fridays will take place on the following days, with the following classes: 3 February: 10 February: 17 February: 2 March: 9 March: 16 March: 23 March:
Dan Graham at Bozar & PARTS March 25-26/3/2012 The visual arts school ERG, PARTS and Bozar organise a presentation by Dan Graham at Bozar, on Sunday March 25. Dan Graham presents the performance 'Lax/relax' (1969) and the film installation 'Helix/spiral' (1973). A conceptual artist, critic and theorist, Dan Graham (United States, 1942) has been one of the major figures in contemporary art for more than 40 years. Through his On Monday, March 26, Dan Graham will conduct a working session with students of ERG and PARTS. Performance in Bozar, Sunday March 25, 14.30 - Info and tickets: www.bozar.be
Presentation at 'L'entretien infini' March 6, 2012 The visual art school ERG organises a 3-day symposium at Les Halles de Schaerbeek, March 5-6-7, with lectures, debates and performances, around possible dialogues between art and science. ERG invited Christophe Wavelet to present PARTS in this context. Entitled 'Écoles des gestes, gestes de l’école : un montage performatif', the presentation consists of two performances by PARTS students (FR EN by Cyriaque Villemaux and Camille Durif Bonis and Now and then, here and there by Nestor Garcia Diaz), screenings of repertoire work and a dialogue between Christophe Wavelet and PARTS teachers on the idea of transmitting knowledge. Les Halles de Schaerbeek, Brussels, Tuesday March 6 at 19h. Free entrance to the whole event. Click here for the full program of the event. Open House Saturday 11 February 2012 Saturday 11 February, P.A.R.T.S is organising an Open House for everybody wanting to take a look behind the scenes of Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker’s international school of contemporary dance. That day, you have the opportunity to watch some open courses or to get one of the guided tours in 14 different languages. 13:45 – 15:00 15:30 – 16:45 Guided Tours in 14 languages At 13.30 and 15.15 our students will guide visitors in no less than 14 different languages. They will offer as many perspectives on dance education, life, work and dance in the Brussels metropolis. Thus visitors will learn at first hand how these young dancers are training and working in P.A.R.T.S. 13.30: 15.15: Macrobiotic Kitchen
danceXmusic 2: January 18-22, 2012 Following the success of danceXmusic in Spring 2010, La Monnaie and PARTS join together in a new project allowing the students to create works as dancers and choreographers in professional conditions with the participation of soloists from La Monnaie Symphony Orchestra and the young vocalists of the Queen Elisabeth Chapel. After the contemporary music heard in the first edition, the repertoire of the late 19th century and early 20th century will constitute the musical material fordanceXmusic 2 for the students in second and fourth years. PARTS invited young choreographers Etienne Guilloteau and Claire Croizé to create a piece for nine dancers from the 4th year. They chose to work with the first string quartet of Anton Webern and developed their piece in close collaboration with pianist and dramaturge Alain Franco. Nestor Garcia Diaz and Renan Oliveira, also students of the 4th year, both created pieces on songs by Johannes Brahms. The students of the 2nd year all created duets, working with composers such as Franz Schubert, Robert Schumann, Bohuslav Martinu, Sergei Prokofiev, Dimitri Shostakovitch, Eugène Ysaye, Francis Poulenc, Josef Suk, and Igor Stravinsky. The series consists of several different programmes. The performances take place at the Malibran Hall in the Ateliers of De Munt/La Monnaie (Leopoldstraat 23, 1000 Brussels), on January 18, 19, 20 and 21 at 20h, and on January 22 at 15h. See below for the details of the programmes. Tickets can be reserved through De Munt/La Monnaie: phone 070 23 39 39, email reservations@lamonnaie.be, or through the website or the box office. The programme: Thursday, January 19: Friday January 20 Saturday January 21 Sunday, January 22
photos: Bart Grietens
November 2011 - Parliament Without Words - Eleanor Bauer On November 26 and 27, the P.A.R.T.S. students can be seen with choreographer and performer Eleanor Bauer in Parliament Without Words. This performance is part of the festival Spoken World – Powers of Speech of Kaaitheatre. In a festival that concentrates on the word, the choreographer and performer Eleanor Bauer is launching a counter-movement: what lies behind the words? She will set up a parliament without words together with students from PARTS. If language is what separates humans from nonhumans, what happens when we take it away? The purpose of a parliament without words is to close this gap between humans and nonhumans, to exercise our direct relationship to things as "vibrant matter" (borrowing the words of Jane Bennett) and to experience our own bodies as such, in order to look at and convene with our physical world in an intelligent and intimate way. In a parliament without words, perhaps things and beings are mutually affective and affected. A parliament's work creates and assigns values and meanings to material things outside and inside the parliament itself. What would happen in a parliament that relates to things not in terms of their names and the utility assigned them by humans, but as fellow members of the assembly? What would happen if those things had a voice in the conversation? The power of things as actants is happening without us, with or without our acknowledgement, with or without our giving them a voice, with or without our anthropomorphic empathy. But if we want to discover a new relationship with things, we have to start somewhere, however extreme. Parliament without words is an experiment to see how we are changing and changed by things. For more information: www.kaaitheater.be November 2011 - Passing Through in Buda, Kortrijk November 10, Ronny Delrue will defend his doctoral thesis in the centre of the arts Buda in Kortrijk. On that occasion, PARTS students will be performing Passing Through. The performance connects very well with the opening of the exhibition Het onbewaakte moment #1 and #2 by Ronny Delrue in the Broelmuseum and in the Roger Raveel Museum. The exhibition resulted from the research in the visual arts Delrue conducted for his doctoral thesis, which he will defend on 10 November. The improvisation of David Zambrano and PARTS in fact is a perfect illustration of the ‘orderly disorder’ which Delrues research constitutes. For more information: www.budakortrijk.be (in Dutch only), www.broelmuseum.be (in Dutch only) and www.rogerraveel.be (in Dutch only). October 2011 - Former PARTS students at Move Me and Amperdans The last week of October, two dance festivals will take place in Leuven and Antwerp, at which former PARTS students will play a prominent role. STUK in Leuven is organizing Move Me, with choreographers from different PARTS generations, coming from all over the world. You will see creations by Milan Tomasik, Charlotte Van den Eynde, Cecilia Lisa Eliceche, Marlene Freitas and Eleanor Bauer. At Stuk from 25 to 28 October. For more information: www.stuk.be The new edition of Amperdans takes place at Monty, Antwerp. Work of Franziska Aigner, Fabian Barba, Charlotte Van den Eynde and Benjamin Vandewalle (all former PARTS students) will be presented, together with other creations. At Monty from 26 to 29 October. For more information: www.amperdans.eu October 2011 - Vredeseilanden & PARTS: The farmer effect The flemish ngo Vredeseilanden and PARTS and Rosas collaborate on the occasion of the launch of the campaign 'The farmer effect', which focuses on sustainable agriculture in developing countries and sustainable food consumption here. On Thursday, October 13, Vredeseilanden organises a fundraising diner in the studios of PARTS. The menu is prepared by the kitchen team of PARTS and Rosas and stresses the culinary potential of food produced in sustainable ways, of which the macrobiotic kitchen at PARTS and Rosas is a nice example. The diner is open for 120 guests, who could sign up for a tabe of 10 at the price of 2000 euro. All places are taken. On Friday and Saturday October 14 and 15, Vredeseilanden organises a colloquium and a public event at the Museum M in Leuven. On Saturday October 15 at 14h, PARTS students open the event by dancing David Zambrano's choreography Passing through at the Ladeuze Square in Leuven. For more information on the campaign, the colloquium and the event, visit www.vredeseilanden.be
October 2011 - PARTS students perform at the Bâtard festival Two PARTS students have been invited to participate in the Bâtard festival, which focuses on beginning performing artists. The festival runs from October 19 until 22, and presents different parcours with each time two or three different pieces. Nestor Garcia Diaz presents Now and then, here and there and The secret of a meaningful piece on October 19, 20 and 22. Cyriaque Villemaux and Camille Durif Bonis present Waiting for the Phlebitis, a 24 hour performance starting October 21 at 16h. All parcours start at Beursschouwburg.
June 2011 - Student Performances Summer 2011 at Bronks theatre
June 2011 - 'Schools' - exchange and performances in Angers June 13-19 The Centre national de Danse contemporaine in Angers organises the second edition of the event 'Schols', in which students and teachers from several dance schools in Europe and beyond exchange experiences and practices. PARTS sends sixteen students of the Research Cycle and teachers/coordinators Salva Sanchis and Steven De Belder, who will work with students and teachers from CNDC (Angers, FR), Laban (Londen, UK), Forum Dança (Lissabon, PT), SNDO (Amsterdam, NL), Bennington College (Vermont, USA), University of Dance and Circus (Stockholm, SE), CDC (Toulouse, FR), Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et Danse (Lyon, FR), Ecole Supérieure de Beaux Arts Nantes Métropole (Nantes, FR), Hochschulübergreifendes Zentrum Tanz (Berlin, DE), Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University (Istanbul, TR), ex.er.c.ce (Montpellier, FR), Ecole supérieure de Beaux Arts (Angers, Fr), en SEAD (Salzburg, AT). Next to workshops, debates and informal showings there will also be two public performances. On Tuesday, June 14 Nestor Garcia Diaz presents the quintet Now and then, Here and there. Six other students perform a version of Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker's Zeitung on Thursday, June 16.
June 2011 - Student Performances Summer 2011 at Bronks theatre The Student Performances Summer 2011 are the classic end-of-the-year event in which the students show a selection of the works they have created in the past semester: repertoire and personal work. This year, the performances will take place at Bronks, in the center of Brussels. There will be performances on June 21, 22, 24 and 25, starting at 8pm. 21/6 Solo by Bara Sigfusdottir Solo in Bronks by Alma Palacios 24/6 25/6 B.I.P.by Vedis Kjartansdottir & Victor Perez Armero
PARTS students grow their own vegetables Sustainable development and respect for nature and body are an important cornerstone of the pedagogical project of PARTS.
May 2011 - KunstenfestivaldesArts 2011 The international performing arts festival KunstenfestivaldesArts is up and running, and will soon present some familiar faces on the Brussels stages. ZOO/Thomas Hauert's latest group piece You've changed will have its Brussels premiere and features a cast of seven dancers who all have a connection to PARTS, either as former student or as teacher. Next to this, there will be the world premiere of the new solo by Charlotte Vanden Eynde, and there are students, former students and teachers involved in performances by Eszter Salamon and Boris Charmatz.
May 2011 - PARTS students perform at the opening of the MAS - Museum aan de Stroom
May 2011: performance in Venice In June 2010, PARTS was awarded the Silver Lion of the Venice Biennale for Dance. Following the award came an invitaiton to perform at the Biennale Dance 2011 which takes place May 10-15. PARTS will present 'project, don't look now' by Xavier Le Roy and Mårten Spångberg and twelve dancers from the Research Cycle. The piece is a re-creation of 'project' from 2003, and deals with choreography through game-playing and its rules, exploring the relationships that are built, the processes, the outcome and how it is received. Sunday May 15, 20h00, Teatro Piccolo Arsenale.
May 2011 - Former PARTS students direct rehearsals at the Paris Opera Ballet On May 25, the Ballet of the Paris Opera opens their version of Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker's 'Rain'. One of the largest ballet companies in the world is staging this Rosas classic from 2001. Former PARTS students Jakub Truszkowski, Marta Coronado and Clinton Stringer, who were all part of the original cast of 'Rain', have been rehearsing the piece together wit Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker and other Rosas dancers. Check the short clip at the Paris Opera website.
April 2011: showings Just before the Easter holiday, the students of the Research Cycle finished a block in which they created personal work or participated in the repertoire workshop around Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker's 'Zeitung', led by Mark Lorimer. Some pictures by Bart Grietens:
December 2010 - Interview with PARTS teacher Janet Panetta in the New York Times Janet Panetta, one of the main ballet teachers at PARTS since many years, is featured in theNew York Times with a big interview.
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vast body of work including performances, photographs, films, videos, sculptures, texts and installations, Dan Graham has developed a fundamental reflection on the historical, social and ideological functions of contemporary cultural systems, in which architecture, music and television play a key role. Refusing to compartmentalise art and opting to study and embrace new urban popular culture, he has written many texts on rock music and worked with groups including Sonic Youth, Minor Threat and Japanther, as well as producing the video Rock My Religion (1984). In the 1970s Graham turned to the new film and video technologies in his installations and performances which actively involve the viewer in reflecting on the relationship between public and private, performer and audience, objectivity and subjectivity, as well as on language and social dynamics. His famous glass and steel pavilions, public works of art disseminated throughout the world since the 1980s, are a radical means of bringing the relationship between the spectator and the work of art into play. They create spaces that disturb the spectator’s perception of the environment and prompt a questioning of his own position. 
