Pierre Droulers (born 5 July 1951 in La Madeleine, France) is a French and Belgian choreographer and dancer.
He spent three years in artistic training at Maurice Béjart's Mudra School in Brussels and then studied with Jerzy Grotowski in Poland. Later, he participated in Bob Wilson's workshops in Paris. In 1978, during a trip in New York City, he discovered Steve Paxton's work which was a source of inspiration.
Since September 2005, he has been co-directing Charleroi/Danses, the Choreographic Centre of the French Community, with Michèle Anne De Mey, Thierry De Mey and Vincent Thirion.
Steve Lacy was an American jazz saxophonist and composer recognized as one of the important players of soprano saxophone. Coming to prominence in the 1950s as a progressive dixieland musician, Lacy went on to a long and prolific career. He worked extensively in experimental jazz and to a lesser extent in free improvisation, but Lacy's music was typically melodic and tightly-structured. Lacy also became a highly distinctive composer, with compositions often built out of little more than a single questioning phrase, repeated several times.
The history of French animation is one of the longest in the world, as France has created some of the earliest animated films dating back to the late 19th century, and invented many of the foundational technologies of early animation.
Vladimir Cosma is a French-Romanian composer, conductor and violinist.
Michael Marshall was a French American actor.
Commissaire Moulin is a French television series created by Paul Andréota and Claude Boissol and starring Yves Rénier as the title character, Commissaire Jean-Paul Moulin. The show started in 1976, was canceled in 1982, resumed in 1989 and finally ended in 2008. The entire series spans seventy 90 minute episodes.
François Valéry is a French singer-songwriter and composer.
The Prix Jules Janssen is the highest award of the Société astronomique de France, the French astronomical society.
Denis Colin is a French bass clarinettist and composer, born in Vanves, 24 July 1956.
Michel Graillier was a French jazz pianist.
Thierre De Mey is a musician and filmmaker from Belgium.
Charleroi Danses is the choreography center of the French Community of Belgium.
The Prix Ampère de l’Électricité de France is a scientific prize awarded annually by the French Academy of Sciences.
Michel François is a Belgian artist. He lives and works in Brussels, Belgium.
Thomas Hauert is a Swiss dancer and choreographer, leader of the Brussels-based company ZOO/Thomas Hauert.
Ann Veronica Janssens is a contemporary visual artist born in 1956 in Folkestone, United Kingdom. She lives and works in Brussels, Belgium. Since the late 1970s Ann Veronica Janssens develops an experimental work that emphasises site-specific installations and the use of intangible materials, such as light, sound or artificial mist, where the observer is confronted with the perception of the elusive. The immersive nature of her work is an invitation to ephemeral experiences, which are at times delirious or vertiginous, and lead to the loss of control or landmarks, generating a sentiment of visual, physical, temporal or psychological fragility. Ann Veronica Janssens’ work foregrounds the body’s perception of the world and itself in it. She often uses light, natural optical phenomena or glass as a medium. Her works exude the impression of great simplicity, yet create vivid experiences of the act of seeing, evoking a heightened awareness of the changeability and fleetingness of the individual perception.
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.
Mark Lorimer is a British dancer / choreographer best known for his work with the Brussels-based choreographers Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker and Thomas Hauert.