Anne Teresa, Baroness de Keersmaeker is a contemporary dance choreographer. The dance company constructed around her, Rosas, was in residence at La Monnaie in Brussels from 1992 to 2007.
The Centre for Fine Arts is a multi-purpose cultural venue in the Royal Quarter of Brussels, Belgium. It is often referred to as BOZAR in French or by its initials PSK in Dutch. This multidisciplinary space was designed to bring together a wide range of artistic events, whether music, visual arts, theatre, dance, literature, cinema or architecture.
Stéphane Ginsburgh is a Belgian pianist of Austrian origin. He is a piano professor at the Geneva University of Music.
Thomas Hauert is a Swiss dancer and choreographer, leader of the Brussels-based company ZOO.
Shaabi is an Egyptian musical genre. It is a form of popular working-class music which evolved from Egyptian Baladi in the second half of the 20th century, it's the core of Egyptian people music in streets and weddings and every day Egyptian life.
Zuleikha Chaudhari is a theatre director and lighting designer based in New Delhi and Mumbai, India. She is also a Visiting Faculty at The Dramatic Art and Design Academy, New Delhi.
Frie Leysen was a Belgian festival director. She was director of the art centre deSingel, Antwerp, from 1980 until 1991. In 1994, she co-founded the Kunstenfestivaldesarts in Brussels.
José Besprosvany is a dancer, choreographer, director, producer and teacher, who has developed his career in Europe. Born in 1959 in Mexico, he is a second-generation Mexican with Russian Jewish origins. He has been living and working in Brussels since 1980.
Cathy Turner is a British artist and researcher, specialising in dramaturgy, site-specific performance and walking art. She is a founder member of Wrights & Sites, and a Senior Lecturer in Drama at the University of Exeter. Turner's practice and research explore how one's life experience can influence one's perception of their environment.
Mette Ingvartsen is a Danish dancer, choreographer and performance artist who has been active since the early 2000s.
Tine Van Aerschot is a Belgian graphic designer, dramatic adviser, writer and theatre director.
fieldworks is an organisation located in Brussels, which creates, produces, distributes and promotes the artistic work of Heine Avdal and Yukiko Shinozaki.
Mette Edvardsen is a choreographer, dancer, and performance artist from Norway, who lives and works in Brussels, Belgium.
Ula Sickle is a Canadian / Polish choreographer and performer residing in the Brussels-Capital Region.
Eleanor Bauer is an American choreographer and dancer.
P.A.R.T.S. - Performing Arts Research and Training Studios is an international school for contemporary dance that is located in Vorst, one of the 19 municipalities located in the Brussels-Capital Region of Belgium.
Salva (Salvador) Sanchis is a Spanish dancer, choreographer and dance teacher.
Amir Reza Koohestani is an Iranian theatre maker who was born in Shiraz, Iran.
Events from the year 1950 in Belgium
deSingel is a Belgian arts center. It is located on the Desguinlei in Antwerp. Its various stages, concert halls and exhibition spaces offer a manifold program of music, dance, theater and architecture. It is also home to the Royal Conservatory of Antwerp, the Flemish Architecture Institute (VAI), the Study Center for Flemish Music (SVM), the VDAB employment initiative for theatre technicians Sabbattini, the Eastman dance company, ChampdAction, I Solisti, detheatermaker and the Spiegel String Quartet.
