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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 25-26/2012 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
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. 
