In September 1995, the Performing Arts Research Studios (P.A.R.T.S.) opened their doors in Brussels. It was the result of a dream shared by Anne Teresa De Keersmaecker (Rosas) and Bernard Foccroulle (De Munt/La Monnaie), a dream for an international school for contemporary dance that responded to the challenges of the contemporary dance scene.
Anne Teresa De Keersmaecker is the director of P.A.R.T.S.
A 'school' by its nature, urges one to make choices, to continually re-evaluate what is important from the past, in the present, for the future. I haven't always found that easy. Most often because I'm not so sure about what's finally important these days. Today the world's complexity and the problems humanity is facing are advancing at a spiralled speed. Maybe our art can be a reading of that complexity and a modest attempt to communicate in a very individual way about matters that concern us all. To learn to communicate about things we care about. trying to know and accepting we don't know.
- Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker (in P.AR.T.S. documenting 10 years of dance education)
SHORT BIOGRAPHY
Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker created her first choreography in 1980, after studying dance at Mudra in Brussels and at the Tisch School of the Arts in New York.
In 1983, she founded the dance company Rosas in Brussels, during the creation of the performance Rosas danst Rosas. Her early works are characterised by strictly geometric trajectories in space, revealing a formal yet emotionally charged relationship with 20th-century classical music.
Since then, her choreographic work has been based on a meticulous exploration of the connection between dance and music.With Rosas, she has created an extensive body of work that draws on musical structures and scores from a wide range of periods, from early music to contemporary compositions and pop. Her choreographic practice also incorporates formal principles derived from geometry, mathematical patterns, nature, and social structures, resulting in a unique perspective on the movement of the body in time and space.