Every three years, P.A.R.T.S. opens its Training Program to new students. The school is now inviting applications for the Bachelor Training Cycle 2025-2028. This three-year program will begin in September 2025 and is open to students aged 18 to 25.

For five weeks, students in the 3rd year of the Bachelor Training program were given the choice to focus on personal work or participate in workshops exploring the repertoire of Rosas and Trisha Brown.

P.A.R.T.S. offers a range of activities to help future students get an inside look at the school. From our P.A.R.T.S. UP CLOSE days, where you can observe daily life at the campus, to online info sessions, Tuesday Takeovers and live Q&As with current students on Instagram, there are many ways to get to know P.A.R.T.S. better.

P.A.R.T.S. is organising a series of winter workshops aimed at young dancers and choreographers who are interested in auditioning for the Bachelor Training program in 2025. The workshops will provide an introduction to the school and its curriculum, offering classes in contemporary dance, composition, yoga, repertoire, theory, creative practice, etc.

On September 29th, we celebrated the graduation of the students from our Master Programme STUDIOS at P.A.R.T.S. The ceremony was guided by Pol Pi, a guest lecturer of the STUDIOS programme, who created a ritual to accompany the students through this moment of transition.

On the occasion of the new school year, P.A.R.T.S. would like to highlight a number of important accomplishments that we are particularly proud of and that have a positive impact on the school’s future and autonomy.

In September, P.A.R.T.S. will be hosting Platform-K and Hiatus for their Open Mondays & Fridays.

On Monday September 2nd, we opened the 2024-25 academic year, welcoming 39 Training students into their 3rd year of the Bachelor Program.

We look back with great joy on our Summer School 2024. A sincere thank you to all participants and teachers for your generosity and curiosity. Your contributions made this edition a truly inspiring experience. We hope to see you next year.

It is with great pleasure that we invite you for the very last PARTS@WORK of this academic year.

A big thanks to everyone involved in this amazing journey!We went through an incredible edition, those who were present will no doubt confirm that.

Last week on Friday May 31st, Drumming XXL premiered in the very centre of Brussels, in open air, as part of Europalia art2gether.

We are counting down the performances of 'DRUMMING XXL' in Brussels and Paris!After more than 2 years of preparations with the Conservatoire de Paris Cnsmdp and Ecole des Sables this long awaited project is coming closer!

It is with great pleasure that we invite you for PARTS@WORK#4.

Over the last years, outdoor physical labour has increasingly become a source of inspiration for Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker.

The second year MA STUDIOS students concluded 2023 with an intensive one-week choreography & composition workshop guided by Mette Ingvartsen.

The second year BA Training students concluded 2023 with 3 sold out evening performances of Set and Reset/Reset, showing each evening 4 different versions.

For the second time, PARTS organized a workshop in the fields this summer - exploring a range of (traditional) techniques from agriculture: mowing with the scythe, wood lumbering, haymaking, pulling exercises with draught horses, making fire, cooking together.

From 13 to 16 September, University College Utrecht (NL) will host the launch of a research project on diversity in higher dance education.

On Monday September 4th, we opened the new academic year 2023-24 for 39 Training-students into their 2nd year of the Bachelor Program, and for 12 STUDIOS-students into their 2nd and graduating year of the Master program.

To close the academic year, the students of the 1st year BA Training program performed at the 8th edition of the biannual Dance Festival DANSAND! in Ostend.

The academic year is running towards its end, with still many activities going on until the beginning of July.

It is with great pleasure that we invite you for the public showing of the “Trios & duets with live music’ performed by the first year bachelor Training students, in collaboration with Manama students of Kask and Master students of the Brussels Conservatory, on Sunday May 21, 2023.

An intensive one-week workshop of artistic practice for the first year Training studentsDuring an X-Week, the normal operation modus of the school is suspended. Invited artists can work a whole week with the students, in or outside school. We ask the artists to unveil their way of approaching art towards the students. For April's artistic practice, PARTS invited partner organizations Labolobo, Platform K and the artist Mario Barrantes Espinoza.In the spotlight: STUBBORN BODIES / STUBBORN KNOWLEDGES, a workshop guided by Mario Barrantes Espinoza around migration experiences as worldbuilding tools.

An intensive one-week workshop of artistic practice for the first year Training studentsDuring an X-Week, the normal operation modus of the school is suspended. Invited artists can work a whole week with the students, in or outside school. We ask the artists to unveil their way of approaching art towards the students. For April's artistic practice, PARTS invited partner organizations Labolobo, Platform K and the artist Mario Barrantes Espinoza.In the spotlight: the workshop with Platform-K, an inclusive dance company based in Ghent with a Brussels’ workspace at P.A.R.T.S.

An intensive one-week workshop of artistic practice for the first year Training studentsDuring an X-Week, the normal operation modus of the school is suspended. Invited artists can work a whole week with the students, in or outside school. We ask the artists to unveil their way of approaching art towards the students. For April's artistic practice, PARTS invited partner organizations Labolobo, Platform K and the artist Mario Barrantes Espinoza.In the spotlight: the group working with Labolobo.

In March, the first year bachelor Training students followed a four-week intensive workshop on the Rosas repertory piece Drumming (1998), one of Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker’s most iconic choreographies, written to the eponymous, minimalistic percussion score by Steve Reich.

It is with great excitement that we invite you for the public showing of ‘Drumming (fragments)’ performed by the first year bachelor Training students in the Rosas Performance Space.During a four-week intensive workshop, the Training students have worked in 3 groups on the Rosas repertory ‘Drumming’, guided by Sue-Yeon Youn, Laura-Maria Poletti, Cynthia Loemij and Clinton Stringer. ‘

Next week, Alva Noë is teaching a seminar in the Master program STUDIOS at PARTS. On Tuesday evening March 28th at 19h, he will give a public talk at PARTS (studio 2): Perception as a relationship’.Free entrance - everybody welcome - no reservations

We are very excited to invite you for the public performance PARTS@WORK#3 on Sunday March 26th, 2023 at 3pm.PARTS@WORK#3 consists of several pieces - all personal work - both of the 1st year Bachelor Training students and of the 1st year STUDIOS students from the Master program. Free entrance – no reservation is needed

During the second semester, the first year bachelor Training students followed a 5-week theater workshop. The main goal of this theater workshop is not to turn dancers into actors, but to confront dancers with a performative situation in which their first medium is speech and not movement.This year, they worked in 6 groups, under the direction of Akram Assam, Eva Schram and Kuno Bakker.

During 5 weeks, the 12 students from the STUDIOS program at P.A.R.T.S. participated in an exchange project with 10 young African dancers-choreographers at Ecole des Sables, the school initiated by Germaine Acogny in Toubab Dialaw, Senegal and currently directed by Alesandra Seutin and Wesley Ruzibiza. This exchange program is organized for the 4th time since 2013.

We are very proud to share that graphic designer Paul Boudens received the Henry van de Velde Lifetime Achievement Award 2023.Paul Boudens has been a longtime partner of P.A.R.T.S (since 2005) for all our graphic design for the auditions, SummerSchool, Graduation works & tour, and much more. Paul was also responsible for the graphic design of our twentieth anniversary book “20 years – 50 portraits”.

We are very excited to invite you for the public performance PARTS@WORK#2 on Sunday January 29th, 2023.PARTS@WORK#2 consists of several pieces - all personal work - of the 1st year students from the Bachelor program ‘Training’.Free entrance – no reservation is neededThere is a limited capacity, we advise you to come in time.Doors open at 2h30pm - showing starts at 3pm sharpEnd foreseen around 4:30pm

The first year bachelor Training students concluded 2022 with an intensive one-week -workshop: ‘Dancing Mania’ guided by Mette Ingvartsen.This workshop is the first step toward the performance "Choreomania”, a performance the students will create under the direction of Mette Ingvartsen, resulting in public showings in their third and final year.

It is with great pleasure that we invite you for the very first public showing of Generation XIV: “Passing through” by David Zambrano on Thursday October 27th at 18h in RPS.During a three-week intensive workshop, the students of the 1st year Training cycle have worked with David Zambrano on 'Passing Through', an improvisation structure exploring the infinite possibilities of moving within a group in a set timespace.

Investigating mangrove ecosystems through biology, art and history.Free entrance - everybody welcome - no reservations.Next week, researcher Farid Dadough-Guebas is teaching a seminar in the Studios program at PARTS. On Tuesday evening October 11th at 19h, he will give a public lecture at PARTS.

Today the last three episodes of the podcast Generation XIII are launched and online.In july 2022, the 13th generation of bachelor students at P.A.R.T.S. has festively graduated from the training program and so this story is also finished. A remarkable journey captured in 5 portraits, 6 episodes and an epilogue.Episodes 5 and 6 are all about the graduation year 2021-22.With an epilogue, a final retrospective of the protagonists Eleni, Marlla, Renato and Zoé.Want to know more about it?

On September 5, PARTS started with a new generation of students!The students of Generation XIV started their 1st year of the Bachelor Training cycle 2022-25. They are 41, representing 18 different nationalities from four continents.On September 26, the 2-year Studios program will start for the second time with 12 participants from 12 different countries.Stay tuned to this website for news about our public activities!

We finally got there and how! After three eventful years, Generation XIII - "the resilient generation" - ​graduated last Sunday and was awarded for the very first time with a Professional Bachelor degree in Dance. The ceremony was warm & emotional with family & friends coming from all corners of the world, and with the supporting presence of the whole team of teachers, (ex-)staff, tutors, faculty, board members and all friends of PARTS (and let's not forget to mention that the buffet was exquisite).So we want to thank e-v-e-r-y-o-n-e who has made this day an unforgettable one!

It's happening! From July 18 until August 19th P.A.R.T.S.organizes a new edition of SummerSchool and SummerStudios, while the previous two editions got cancelled due to covid.All info about the program & inscriptions can be found on our website:SummerSchool 2022SummerStudios 2022

This Saturday is the 7th edition of "Dag van de Dans". P.A.R.T.S. is also back in the game with “Derailed”, a collaboration with Benjamin Vandewalle performed by the 3rd year bachelor Training students.Between 14h and 17h the dancers of PARTS will mingle with the passers-by at the Europakruispunt, the square in front of Brussels Central Station.

It is with great pleasure that we invite you for the public performance PARTS@WORK#4 on Saturday March 26th, 2022.PARTS@WORK#4 consists of several pieces - all personal work - of the 3rd year students from the Bachelor program Training.For the first time, entrance is not for free.The ticket revenue goes integrally to Vluchtelingenwerk to help refugees all over the world forced to flee their homes.There is a suggested price (5 EUR), but you decide what you can pay.No reservation is needed but the capacity is limited.

We are more than delighted to welcome you to the performances of the Guest creations 2022.In the 3rd year of the BA Training program, choreographers are invited to make a piece together with a group of students.In 2022, PARTS invited three choreographers: Tamara Cubas (Uruguay), Philipp Gehmacher (Austria) and Fabrice Mazliah (Switzerland/Germany). Each of them worked 8 weeks with a group of 8-13 students. From March 30 until April 1, 2022, you can discover the results during 3 evenings in the Rosas Performance Space.

This weekend the 3rd year bachelor students participated in the third edition of SLOW festival in Bruges. A big thanks to e-v-e-r-y-o-n-e involved for these amazing past few days!On Saturday the students moved for 12 hours in a row through the train station in Bruges. Slowly, a movement score unfolded in space. Passersby were captivated by the colourful constellations and thoughtful actions.“Today At The Station” is a choreography by Cypriot artist Maria Hassabi that focuses on slowing down and stillness. Their movements were accompanied by a soundscape of the Greek composer Stavros Gasparatos, especially created for this occasion.

We are very excited to invite you for the public performance PARTS@WORK#3 on Sunday January 30th, 2022.PARTS@WORK#3 consists of several pieces - all personal work - of the 3rd year students from the Bachelor program Training.Free entrance – no reservation is needed but the capacity is limited - with CST.Doors open at 14h30 - showing starts at 15h sharp (latecomers are not admitted)End foreseen at 17h15 Duration: 2 hours (with a break of 15 minutes).

Last week we had a very special visit at P.A.R.T.S: our Majesty the Queen visited P.A.R.T.S. to meet with our Bachelor Training students and staff.With this visit, the Queen wants to give the cultural sector, and especially art students, a heartfelt boost during this difficult period.

We are very excited to invite you for the public performance PARTS@WORK#2 on Thursday November 4th, 2021 & Friday November 5th, 2021.PARTS@WORK#2 consists of repertoire work of Rosas (the 5th Brandenburger Concerto), repertoire work of the Trisha Brown Dance Company (Solo Olos en Rogues) and personal work. All performers are 3rd year students from the Bachelor program Training.

You are very welcome to join us on Sunday October 10th for the first PARTS@WORK of this academic year 2021-22. PARTS@WORK#1 consists in several pieces - all personal work - of the 3rd year students from the Bachelor program Training.We look forward to your visit and would like to remind you that a valid Covid Safe Ticket is required to attend this performance. Anyone aged 12 years and older must present a valid Covid Safe Ticket (or EU Digital COVID Certificate) in the form of a QR code (digital or printed) as well as a piece of identification with picture.Please take into account the extra CST control and arrive well on time.

On Sunday September 26th, Rosas and PARTS celebrated the retirement of Theo Van Rompay, co-founder of the school who worked as deputy director for more than 25 years. As part of the celebrations, Theo was interviewed by journalist Anna Luyten, theatre maker and political activist Dominique Willaert and choreographer Jonathan Burrows. During the conversations, they touched upon different aspects of his professional career at and beyond PARTS.

This week, the graduating Master students of STUDIOS are welcomed by STUK - House for Dance, Image & Sound (Leuven) for a collective residency.During one week, the graduates will look back on their graduation works and research, share collective practice, and enter into dialogue with workspaces and alternative management offices about their future plans in the professional field.

We are very happy to announce that on Monday September 6th, we opened the new academic year 2021-22 for the bachelor's program Training (3rd year).We started the new school year with an introduction week composed of collective classes, sharing of physical practices, workshops and talking sessions.

During 4 weeks, the students from our Bachelor program Training had a choice to work in smaller groups on repertoire, creation or personal work. All of this was presented mid June during an internal presentation.In the spotlight this week: personal work initiated by Renátó Miskolczi with “FLIES”.

During 4 weeks, the students from our Bachelor program Training had a choice to work in smaller groups on repertoire, creation or personal work. All of this was presented mid June during an internal presentation.In the spotlight this week: personal work initiated by Jair Jetzehu Montes Rangel with “Todos”.

During 4 weeks, the students from our Bachelor program Training had a choice to work in smaller groups on repertoire, creation or personal work. All of this was presented mid June during an internal presentation.In the spotlight this week: personal work initiated by Antoine Dupuy & Ching-Shu Huang with the “Jelly Fish Collective Practice”.

During 4 weeks, the students from our Bachelor program Training had a choice to work in smaller groups on repertoire, creation or personal work. All of this was presented mid June during an internal presentation.In the spotlight this week: a new creation guided by Moya Michael and Judith Sanchez Ruiz.

During 4 weeks, the students from our Bachelor program Training had a choice to work in smaller groups on repertoire, creation or personal work. All of this was presented mid June during an internal presentation. In the spotlight this week: Rosas repertoire “A Love Supreme” by Salva Sanchis & Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, taught by Salva Sanchis & Thomas Vantuycom.

To close the academic year we will dance into the summer at the DANSAND! festival in Ostend. DANSAND! is a festival for dance and movement. This year the focus is on encounter and connection with a three-day program full of performances at special locations. P.A.R.T.S. is a regular and welcome guest at DANSAND!, in the past there have been numerous creations with guest choreographers, site-specific performances and graduation works. This year, the Training students present a series of solos.

Over the last five weeks the students from our Bachelor programme Training got to work on the repertory of Trisha Brown’s Son of gone Fishin’ (1981). They immersed themselves in the material under the guidance of two company members, Samuel Wentz and Leah Ives. Our tutor Diane Madden, who has a rich history with the Trisha Brown Dance Company, curated the workshop project and prepared the students for this block by transmitting the phrase material and in depth technical knowledge throughout her contemporary technique classes.

Today is the official launch of Generation XIII, a documentary podcast about 5 dancers, 3 years, 1 school: a portrait of a generation at PARTS.Generation XIII drafts a portrait of the generation that has been studying at PARTS since September 2019, through the experiences and voices of five students following the Bachelor program Training.Sociologist Delphine Hesters follows Eleni from Greece, Kia from New Zealand, Marllon from Brazil, Renátó from Hungary and Zoé from France, all through their studies, until the Summer of 2022.

Our students come from all over the world, they are diverse in ethnicity, gender, cultural environment. And their parents hold different positions in society. Some of them can easily take on the study costs of their daughter or son, for others this is an impossible hurdle.PARTS selects students solely on the basis of talent. In order to ensure access to the school for all those selected, the P.A.R.T.S.FOUNDATION was set up. It has only one goal: to raise funds for scholarships for our students. And you can help us! Read more here

Last week Diane Madden concluded 3 weeks of teaching contemporary technique to the 2nd year students of the Training Cycle. In her class, Diane Madden is building up material and skills towards a longer Trisha Brown repertoire workshop in Spring 2021, in which students will be creating their own version of Brown’s “Son of Gone Fishin’” 1981.Diane has been giving workshops at PARTS based on Trisha Brown’s repertoire for many years. Since 1980 Diane has been an integral part of Trisha Brown’s work: as a dancer, rehearsal director and Associate Artistic Director.It is a special honour for PARTS that Diane Madden is associated with the school for the entire Training Cycle, from 2019-2022.

Last October, philosopher Ben Woodard gave a seminar to the students of STUDIOS. We also invited him for a public lecture. In this lecture, he talks about the concept of the Anthropocene and the questions that this raises.

We are happy to announce that, on Monday August 31st, we opened the new academic year 2020-21 with live programs for Training (2nd year) and STUDIOS (2nd year).Of course we are talking about a lot of safety measures, smaller groups, bubbles, extra space to guarantee social distancing, timeslots, facemasks, sanitizers and circulation plans, but we have made it work.

On September 4th 2020, PARTS had its 25th anniversary.After an inspiring journey of 25 years we are very proud that both cycles, Training and STUDIOS, are recognised by the Flemish government as a Bachelor in Dance (since June 2019) and Master in Dance (since July 2020).

Just before the official start of the school year we organized a three day program BACK. CURRENT: a come together between the students, teachers and staff as a transitioning from the lockdown into the new school year. To reflect on what happened, focus on the present and look into the future.

The academic year is running towards its end, the Summer holiday is just around the corner.On Saturday June 27th we organized the last open-air class in Duden park with David Hernandez.Since May 18 - when the National Security Council decided that training outdoors for group sports was allowed again – we have organized a weekly 90’ outdoor dance class in the park for a group of maximum 20 people. A very welcome relief for all the students that have been locked up in small Brussels spaces with no access to flowery backyards, mountain-view meadows or sunny beaches. Luck was on our side, the weather was always very nice.

'About birds and other animals'Philosopher Vinciane Despret enters into conversation with Bojana Cvejic about her work, following a seminar for the students of the Studios programme.After philosophical and psychological studies, Vinciane Despret specialized in ethology, the study of animal behavior, and became fascinated by the humans who work with animals. Borrowing a path from philosophy of sciences, her work combines ethological and psychological research with the goal of understanding and explaining how scientists build their theories, how they interact with historical and social contexts, and what relation is established between them and animals.

Throwback to the public presentation "Exchanges" of last Friday, a final sharing of the 5 weeks during exchange project between Ecole des Sables and PARTS.Thank you Ecole des Sables for your hospitality!Thank you Ogutu Muraya (Kenya), Faustin Linyekula (Congo), Panaibra Gabriel Canda (Mozambique), Nadia Beugré (Ivory Coast) and Qudus Onikeku (Nigeria) for sharing your artistic practice so generously.Thank you to Ise An Verstegen (Netherlands), Patrick Acogny (Senegal/France), Mamadou Baldé (Senegal), Ntone Edjabe (Cameroon), Saky Bertrand Tchébé (Ivory Coast) and the musicians for transmitting your technique and insights on African dance.And thank you all participants for your curiosity and hard work!

You are very welcome to join us for the public presentation of the theatre workshops of the 1st year Training students.Free entrance – no reservation is needed.Doors open at 14h45 (program 1) and 17h45 (program 2), the performances start at 15h and 18h sharp (latecomers are not admitted).Each program consists of 2 pieces, 4 in total. There is a short break between the 2 programs. You are welcome to watch both of the programs !Program 1 at 15h :Group of Carly WijsGroup of Thomas RyckewaertProgram 2 at 18h :Group of Eva SchramGroup of Scarlet Tummers

Ise chose Acogny and Acogny chose her.In her work as a dance artist Ise Verstegen interweaves worlds with an inclusive, transcultural vision and body language. Since 2008 she has been working closely with Germaine Acogny, the mother of modern African dance. Acogny technique is a dance technique and philosophy based on West African and Western dances. Ise's work and transmission start from embodiment, connection, collectivity and the respect, possibilities and natural strength of each body through rhythm and movement. From here she addresses social issues.

From January 2nd until February 6th, 14 students from the STUDIOS program at P.A.R.T.S. and 10 young choreographers and dancers from the African continent meet and exchange at Ecole des Sables, the school initiated by Germaine Acogny in Toubab Dialaw, Senegal. This is the third exchange program and the collaboration between P.A.R.T.S and Ecole des Sables goes back until 2013.

PARTS@WORK#2 – Sunday 26/01, 15h.The performance is for free, no reservation is needed.Doors open at 14h45, the performance starts at 15h sharp (latecomers are not admitted).PARTS@WORK is a series of informal showings of work created by PARTS students.PARTS@WORK #2 consists in several pieces, all personal work of the 1st year Training students.Hope to see you there !!

From January 2nd until February 6th, 14 students from the STUDIOS program at P.A.R.T.S. and 10 young choreographers and dancers from the African continent meet and exchange at Ecole des Sables, the school initiated by Germaine Acogny in Toubab Dialaw, Senegal. This is the third exchange program and the collaboration between P.A.R.T.S and Ecole des Sables goes back until 2013.

PARTS@WORK is a series of informal showings of work created by PARTS students.PARTS@WORK #1 consists in a number of short pieces, all personal work of the new Training students, made in the first three months of the schoolyear. These performances are free, no reservation is needed.Hope to see you there !!

This lecture centres on the practices of African Diaspora art as archive, resistance and transformation. It adopts an Afrogenic approach, restructuring the “geographies of reason” and approaches the various timelines, genres and practices from the perspective of rhythm as a mobile institution. It seeks to move out of the realm of mysticism, obscurity and tropes over into access, right to opacity and approachability. The lecture seeks to courageously step into the uncomfortable and difficult conversation with the perspective of generous black rage.

From November 18 to 29, the Taipei Performing Arts Center and the Centre national de la Danse (Paris) organise the first edition of Camping Asia. It's an event where more than 100 students from 12 art schools from across Asia and the rest of the world gather to work and learn together.

We regularly organize semi-public talks with teachers at P.A.R.T.S. It is a way for our students to get a deeper insight in the teacher his/her personal practice, work as a performer, own artistic work, and anything else he/she might be busy with. On Monday, September 30 we had our first talk with David Hernandez.

This week, researcher Stephen Zepke is teaching a seminar in the Studios programme at PARTS. On Thursday evening 26/9 at 19h, he will give a public lecture in which he reflects on the possibility of art to reflect about the future, if anything 'new' can still be imagined and created.Free entrance, reservation is not necessary!

In 2019-20, PARTS starts with a new generation of students and a new programme!On September 2, the students of Generation XIII started the 1st year of the Training cycle 2019-2022. They are 40, representing 24 different nationalities from five continents.On September 23, the new Studios programme starts, with a program of 2 years with 14 participants from 11 different countries. Stay tuned to this website for news about our public activities!

From September 2019 onwards, PARTS will launch a new advanced 2-year program, called STUDIOS.STUDIOS is a 2-year fulltime research programme for dance-makers and choreographers, who intend to develop their creative voice and practice, in a learning environment that is communal and collaborative.

On 1 September 2020, Theo Van Rompay (1954), co-founder of P.A.R.T.S., will step down as Deputy Director of the school. His succession is already assured, since a year earlier, in September 2019, the new 'Studios' programme will start, for which a coordinator had to be appointed. Charlotte Vandevyver (1982) will implement this new 'Studios' programme from 1 May 2019 onwards. On 1 September 2020 she will take up her position as the new deputy director of P.A.R.T.S., to lead the school together with director Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker.