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Performing Arts Research and Training Studios

Performing Arts Research and Training Studios (P.A.R.T.S.) is an international school for contemporary dance that is located in Vorst, in the Brussels-Capital Region of Belgium.

Performing Arts Research and Training Studios
Location
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Brussels Capital-Region

Forest
1190

Belgium
Coordinates50°49′5.279″N 4°19′27.365″E / 50.81813306°N 4.32426806°E / 50.81813306; 4.32426806
Information
Other nameP.A.R.T.S.
School typeDance school
Founded30 June 1994
Founders
DirectorAnne Teresa De Keersmaeker
CampusesRosas Performance Space
Websitehttps://www.parts.be/

History

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PARTS was founded in 1995 by the Belgian choreographer Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker and Bernard Foccroulle; the latter was director of the National Opera De Munt.

De Keersmaeker and Foccroulle initiated PARTS to fill a gap in professional training for dance, with focus on providing a pedagogical platform for contemporary dance in Belgium.[1]

Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker expressed the spirit of PARTS as follows: “I cannot teach anyone to dance. One learns to dance oneself. But perhaps I can give them a desire, an experience, create a space for challenges.”[2]

The first students of PARTS graduated in 1998,[3] and by 2015, there were approximately 860 students, teachers and staff had been involved with the school since its start in 1995.[1]

In 2013, PARTS developed a partnership for higher education in contemporary dance[4] with HES-SO/Manufacture, the High School of Performing Arts at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts Western Switzerland (Lausanne).

Pedagogical curriculum

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Inspired in the model Mudra by choreographer Maurice Béjart[5] PARTS functions as a meeting place for different generations of dancers and choreographers from all over the world.

Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker designed the original pedagogical curriculum when the program lasted three years. In 2000, the program was extended with the option to specialize as a dancer or as a choreographer.[6] The pedagogical curriculum currently consists of two independent parts called cycles. The first part is the Training Cycle which lasts three years and forms the basis of the course.[7] The second part is the subsequent Research Studios, which lasts two years.[8]

The program pays attention the repertoire of Rosas, the dance company of Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker. Each year students learn one complete Rosas choreography, in addition to other contemporary choreographers who are addressed, such as Pina Bausch, William Forsythe and Trisha Brown.

International renown

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PARTS is a well-known in the contemporary dance world for attending students and teaches from more than twenty countries, mainly Europe and the United States.[9]

In 2001 Alain Crombecque, director of the Festival d’Automne, he invited the school for a one-month stay at the Théâtre de la Bastille and the Théâtre du Rond-Point in Paris. According to Alain Crombecque, they considered the school's activity to be exemplary, and they wanted to promote it in France.[10] This initiative was repeated during the 2010 edition of the Festival d’Automne.[11][12]

PARTS students regularly present their work in a wide range of theatres and art centers in Belgium and abroad (amongst others at the Kaaitheater[13] in Brussels, Vooruit[14] and CAMPO[15] in Ghent, DE Studio[16] and Monty[17] in Antwerp, STUK[18] in Leuven, De Brakke Grond[19] in Amsterdam, PACT Zollverein[20] in Essen, Plac Wolnosci/ Malta Festival in Poznań and Mimar Sinan University Bomonti Campus in Istanbul[21][22]).

In 2010, PARTS received the Silver Lion for Dance at the 7th International Festival of Contemporary Dance of the Venice Biennale.[23] The statement of Silver Lion award reads as follows: “Instituted rather recently (1995), the P.A.R.T.S acquired immediate recognition throughout Europe as a center of pedagogical innovation, with a complete and intensive program of studies in which the most advanced techniques of contemporary dance dialogue with other artistic disciplines, in particular with theatre and music. A laboratory of movement which focuses not only on the development of the dancer’s skills, but on his search for artistic identity as well.”[24][25][26][27][28]

Financial support

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Since 1998, PARTS has received grants from the Ministry of Education of the Flemish Community of Belgium. From 2002, this is arranged through contractual agreements that are renewed five-yearly. The school currently receives additional funding from the network [DNA] Departures and Arrivals, that is co-financed by the European Commission (Creative Europe Program).[29] Between 2001 and 2014 the school received additional funding from the DÉPARTS, that was also co-financed by the European Commission.[30]

Notable alumni

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Graduated students who have made an important contribution on the conteporary arts are:[31]

Book publications about PARTS

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  • Steven de Belder (ed.), Theo van Rompay (ed.), Documenting 10 years of contemporary dance education, P.A.R.T.S., 2006, 211 p.
This book was conceived on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of P.A.R.T.S..
  • Theo van Rompay (ed.), 20 years - 50 portraits, P.A.R.T.S., 2016, 408 p., ISBN 978-90-902-9748-4
This book was conceived on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of P.A.R.T.S.. It comprises portraits of 50 P.A.R.T.S. students and an overview of the 860 students, teachers and staff who together have built out the school.[36]

References

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  1. ^ a b Theo Van Rompay (ed.), P.A.R.T.S. 20 years - 50 portraits, , P.A.R.T.S., 2016, 408 p., ISBN 978-90-902-9748-4
  2. ^ Jef de Roeck, P.A.R.T.S. - A School of Contemporary Dance, in: The Low Countries - Arts and Society in Flanders and the Netherlands – A Yearbook, Volume 4 (1996-1997)
  3. ^ Page about P.A.R.T.S. Archived 2017-09-03 at the Wayback Machine on the website of P.A.R.T.S.
  4. ^ "Homepage of website of P.A.R.T.S." Archived from the original on 2017-08-12. Retrieved 2017-08-10.
  5. ^ "Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker". Opéra national de Paris. Retrieved 2024-09-29.
  6. ^ Jeroen Peeters, Dansfeest in de blekerij, in: De Tijd, 23/02/2000
  7. ^ Basic Cycle Training
  8. ^ Progress Cycle Research Studios
  9. ^ Website of P.A.R.T.S. Consulted on 22/04/2017
  10. ^ Pieter TJonck , P.A.R.T.S. in de buurt van Bauhaus, in: De Tijd, 03/11/2001, p. 10
  11. ^ Announcement After Parts on the website of the Festival d’Automne
  12. ^ Announcement After Parts, 02 Oct - 03 Oct 2010 on parisart
  13. ^ Page about the P.A.R.T.S. Graduation Tour 2016 on the website of the Kaaitheater
  14. ^ Page about the P.A.R.T.S. Graduation Tour 2016 Archived 2017-08-10 at the Wayback Machine on the website of Vooruit
  15. ^ Page about the P.A.R.T.S. Graduation Tour 2016 on the website of CAMPO
  16. ^ Page about the P.A.R.T.S. Graduation Tour 2014 Archived 2017-08-10 at the Wayback Machine on the website of DE Studio
  17. ^ Page about the P.A.R.T.S. Graduation Tour 2014 on the website of Monty
  18. ^ Page about the P.A.R.T.S. Graduation Tour 2014 Archived 2017-08-10 at the Wayback Machine on the website of STUK
  19. ^ Page about the P.A.R.T.S. Graduation Tour 2016 Archived 2017-08-10 at the Wayback Machine on the website of De Brakke Grond
  20. ^ Page about the P.A.R.T.S. Graduation Tour 2016 Archived 2017-08-10 at the Wayback Machine on the website of PACT Zollverein
  21. ^ Page about P.A.R.T.S. Graduation Tour 2014 Archived 2017-08-10 at the Wayback Machine on the website ARTSFLANDERS
  22. ^ Announcement of the P.A.R.T.S. Graduation Tour 2014 Archived 2017-08-20 at the Wayback Machine on the website of P.A.R.T.S.
  23. ^ School van Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker wint Zilveren Leeuw in Venetië, Knack Focus, 26/05/2010
  24. ^ Venice Silver Lion goes to Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker’s P.A.R.T.S., blog: The Low Countries, 27/05/2010
  25. ^ vsa, P.A.R.T.S. in de prijzen, in: De Standaard, 27/05/2010, p. 74
  26. ^ Pieter T'jonck, Zoveel meer dan alleen maar mooi dansen, in: De Morgen, 05/06/2010, p. 47
  27. ^ Eric Rinckhout, Choreografe Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker ontvangt Zilveren Leeuw in Venetië, in: De Morgen, 07/06/2010, p. 31
  28. ^ Sarah Theerlynck, Eerste Zilveren Leeuw voor P.A.R.T.S. van Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, in: De Morgen, 27/05/2010, p. 32
  29. ^ Website of DNA - Departures and Arrivals
  30. ^ Website of DÉPARTS
  31. ^ "Alumni".
  32. ^ a b "School for contemporary dance".
  33. ^ "School for contemporary dance".
  34. ^ a b "School for contemporary dance".
  35. ^ "School for contemporary dance".
  36. ^ Book publication P.A.R.T.S. 20 years - 50 portraits on the website of P.A.R.T.S.

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