For ‘DRUMMING XXL’, P.A.R.T.S teams up with the Conservatoire national supérieur de musique et de danse de Paris and École des Sables, the International Centre for Traditional & Contemporary African Dances, founded in Toubab Dialaw, Senegal by Germaine Acogny.

‘DRUMMING XXL’, brings together seventy performers from the 3 schools, for this exceptional version of Drumming, created in August 1998 by Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker and Rosas, to the music of Steve Reich.

The dancers from the various schools will work on a new version under guidance of Clinton Stringer, recreating several sections of the original piece, making their own transformations of the original material, creating duets and trios, and using the underlying structures of the original choreography to create new constructions.

One to look forward to!

Credits
‘DRUMMING XXL’ is created in May 2024 in Brussels, Place de la Bourse, as part of the festival 'europalia Art2gether', in partnership with 'EU2024BE', the Belgian Presidency of the Council of the European Union and the City of Brussels.

Production: the Conservatoire national supérieur de musique et de danse de Paris and P.A.R.T.S
Co-prodution: the Conservatoire national supérieur de musique et de danse de Paris, P.A.R.T.S, the Maison de la Culture de Seine-Saint-Denis (MC93), the Rencontres chorégraphiques internationales de Seine-Saint-Denis, la Villette, europalia

In partnership with: École des sables

With the support of: Dance Reflections by Van Cleef & Arpels and the Fondation Cléo Thiberge Edrom
With the support of Rosas and ‘EU2024BE', the Belgian Presidency of the Council of the European Union 2024

This project has received a grant from Paris 2024 as part of the Cultural Olympiad, and is supported by the Institut Français.

Thanks to the Centre national de la danse