Every two years a new generation of dancers and choreographers graduates
from the PARTS dance school in Brussels, which was founded and is
headed by Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker. In spring 2012, nineteen students
from eleven countries will be working on their graduation pieces for
three months.

Every two years a new generation of dancers and choreographers graduates from the PARTS dance school in Brussels, which was founded and is headed by Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker. One invariably sees these young artists appearing soon afterwards with fresh perspectives on dance and performance. The international tour of their graduation pieces always gives an exciting foretaste of what’s to come.

Working Title Platform#4 - The formula of Performance Kit is pretty clear; a performer enters the stage, performs a solo and gets challenged by questions through an audio score. Nevertheless the outcome is way more complex; it’s a show, a practice, an audio-guide, an analysis, it entails research and searches for hidden treasures at the same time.

Jolika Sudermann and Alma Söderberg noticed that when we speak to each other we are actually singing and dancing with each other. A Talk is a light but virtuoso game of word compositions and language improvisation, performed by a charming and refreshing female duo!

The Swedish-German performance artist Eva Meyer-Keller is obsessed with food. In Death is certain (in the Kaaistudio’s in 2007) she condemned a number of vegetables to death. Now she’s cooking up a series of disasters. She will be bringing them to you live, using soup, juice, sauce and other ingredients. How hungry does an earthquake make you?

Very occasionally, something makes your hair stand on end. Nick Steur’s FREEZE! is just such a performance: small in scale, big on ideas. Nick Steur creates a pile of natural stones. He doesn’t use any glue or trickery, just intense concentration and ‘a balance between my own willpower and that of the stone’.  FREEZE!, won the KBC Young Theatre Prize 2011 at Theater Aan Zee.