Workshop dance for non-dancers

Fumiyo Ikeda

In 1979, Fumiyo Ikeda (Japan) entered MUDRA, Maurice Béjart’s dance school in Brussels, where she met Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker. In 1983, she was one of the founding members of Rosas. Between 1983 and 2008, she contributed to the creation of and danced in almost all Rosas productions. She was also part of Rosas films, including Ottone Ottone and Rosa. Since 2007, Fumiyo Ikeda has developed her own artistic trajectory. In 2007, she created Nine Finger with Benjamin Verdonck and Alain Platel. This performance was selected for the Festival d’Avignon 2007 and toured extensively internationally. After that, she created the solo in pieces, a collaboration with British theatre maker and director of Forced Entertainment Tim Etchells. She performed in Life and Times, Episode 2 by Nature Theater of Oklahoma (2010). In 2013, she created amness with Japanese choreographer Un Yamada. In 2014, she created Cross Grip with three Japanese dancers and percussionist Kuniko Kato. In 2015, she choreographed and performed Absence with Frank Focketyn, directed by Peter Verhelst (NTGent) and Eric Joris (CREW). In 2016, she choreographed and performed De Sleutel directed by Josse De Pauw. In 2017, Fumiyo Ikeda choreographed and performed a solo to Piano and String Quartet by Morton Feldman, performed live by Ictus. In 2022 Missa Mater Sola followed with Timo Tembuyser. In 2024 she created and performed in Benjamin Abel Meirhaeghe’s Shelly Shonk Fiffit (Toneelhuis) and Timo Tembuysers Missa Mama Nova. She regularly teaches workshops, was a guest teacher at KASK, and is the rehearsal director for the early work of Rosas.

Jacob Storer

Jacob Storer (1992, USA) studeerde in 2016 af aan P.A.R.T.S. en vervoegde de Trisha Brown Dance Company in 2017. In 2019 werkte hij met Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker aan de choreografie voor West Side Story op Broadway. Een jaar later, in 2020, vervoegde hij Rosas. Jacob woont in Brussel, waar hij aan diverse projecten als dramaturg of danser werkt, zijn eigen werk ontwikkelt en lesgeeft. Hij gaf eerder les aan NYU Tisch School of the Arts, New York; Mimar Sinan Güzel Sanatlar Üniversitesi, Istanbul; en P.A.R.T.S., Brussel.

Tale Dolven

Tale Dolven (1981) is een danseres uit Noorwegen. Tussen 2005 en 2018 danste ze bij Rosas en Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker. Ze werkte ook met TG Stan, Kris Verdonck, Benjamin Vandewalle, Doris Uhlich en Igor Shyshko. Momenteel werkt en toert Tale met Fieldworks en Nature Theatre of Oklahoma. In 2024-2025 creëerde ze een uitgebreid werk rond de pianosonates van Beethoven, in samenwerking met Alain Franco. Ze studeerde aan P.A.R.T.S. in Brussel en KHIO in Oslo, Noorwegen.