Rosas away from Brussels? The political game has begun.

by Fransien van der Putt
17 December 201430 March 2022
2 min read
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Choreographer Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker sends out an alarming press release. Following the decision by Brussels theatre De Munt/La Monnaie to stop programming dance, she wonders whether Rosas is still welcome in Brussels.

"The news that the management of De Munt is scrapping all dance fills me with disbelief. Historically, dance has been part of De Munt's mission. After the glory days of the Béjart/Huisman duo, the budget for dance was systematically cut...

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Fransien van der Putt

Fransien van der Putt is a dramaturge and critic. She works with Lana Coporda, Vera Sofia Mota, Roberto de Jonge, João Dinis Pinho & Julia Barrios de la Mora and Branka Zgonjanin, among others. She writes about dance and theatre for Cultural Press Agency, Theatererkrant and Dansmagazine. Between 1989 and 2001, she mixed text as sound at Radio 100. Between 2011 and 2015, she developed a minor for the BA Dance, Artez, Arnhem - on artistic processes and own research in dance. Within her work, she pays special attention to the significance of archives, notation, discourse and theatre history in relation to dance in the Netherlands. Together with Vera Sofia Mota, she researches the work of video, installation and peformance artist Nan Hoover on behalf of www.li-ma.nl.View Author posts