Once every three years students can enter the renewed PARTS Training Cycle. The first group started in 2013. They are closing their cycle with a creation of their own as well as new pieces,  directed by experienced choreographers. In Programme 3 Eszter Salamon reflects with 12 dancers on history and identity.

Once every three years students can enter the renewed PARTS Training Cycle. The first group started in 2013. They are closing their cycle with a creation of their own as well as new pieces,  directed by experienced choreographers. In Programme 1 Marc Vanrunxt and his five dancers will search to their commonalities and Vera Mantero dives into the world.

Meyoucycle is about you and me and everything in between. Indeed, a me-you-cycle. Bauer presents a science fiction concert about completely normal emotions in this age of hyper-capitalism and technological progress.

Thierry De Mey has been exploring the grey area between dance and music for more than 30 years. He has composed music for dance performances, directed films about dance, and constructed choreographic multimedia installations. In 2016, for the first time, he has created a dance performance for the big stage, in collaboration with Ensemble intercontemporain, the legendary Paris music ensemble founded by Pierre Boulez.

The revival of Verklärte Nacht enables you to discover (or rediscover) one of Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker's finest works in a special location, the Rosas Performance Space, which is De Keersmaeker’s workplace. Allow yourself to be seduced by this unabashedly romantic duet to the lyrical sounds of Arnold Schoenberg's strings.

With Dance # 2 Christine De Smedt and Eszter Salamon continue to build on Dance # 1 / Driftworks. The first part – listening & mouthing – was inspired by Inuit throat-singing duets. In part two – words & gestures – a dialogue develops in which syllables and words become attached to movements. What does a choreography look like when it resembles a ping-pong game of question and answer?

During the Day of the Dance we show a screening of IT'S IN THE AIR. In this 2008 collaboration between Jefta van Dinther and Mette Ingvartsen, the two performers jumped on large trampolines for 50 minutes. This video registration is all that remains of the intense physical challenge.

Discodesafinado’s fuse of minimal techno and experimental electronics proofs incomprehensible but infectious. Radical Light unleashes the musical concept of pulse on five dancers: straightforward, multilayered and unadulterated. Immerse yourself in sound and movement at an uncompromising 120 beats per minute.

Looking at someone can have ‘kinaesthetic’ effects on you. The choreographer and philosopher Noé Soulier seeks out this feeling for movement in everyday actions. Actions that the dancers initiate, but do not complete. Just as in the martial art of jujitsu – one of Soulier’s sources of inspiration – you discern extremely precise, sensually entangled bodies.

Unrecognisable in his black and silver bee suit with Mickey-Mouse head, dancer Marc Iglesias appears on stage to the sound of Brazilian lounge music. He waddles and jumps, a dancing cartoon. UNTITLED is an amusing and wry dance about a time when entertainment is destroying everything.

Five dancers walk in synch to the rhythm of a march. At the same time they chant phonetic Dadaist poetry. Despite the compelling rhythm, shared by the group, each dancer develops his own way of dancing.