What is Busy Rocks?

Busy Rocks is a collective that works in the field of contemporary dance. It consists of five members (Franziska Aigner, Fabian Barba, Marisa Cabal, Tuur Marinus and Gabriel Schenker), and was formed in June 2008, when all five members graduated from P.A.R.T.S., school for contemporary dance in Brussels.

Busy Rocks was founded on artistic affinities and a desire to keep up and deepen the productive interactions, that were built up throughout the four years spent together at P.A.R.T.S. The collective functions as an inspirational environment and a platform for a constant and durational work sharing.

One of the common interests lies in exploring different ways of producing and perceiving movement. This leads to different proposals of what a dancing and moving body can be. Through these interests, expectations that arouse when bodies appear on stage are challenged and played with. The common perception of the dancer as a virtuous self-propelling body, moving freely through empty, resistance-less space becomes challenged. In their first pieces, this was done by coming up with humorous though enchanting alternatives as in Throwing Rocks and keeping busy keeping still.

Busy Rocks would like to facilitate public, programmers and theatres to follow a narrative of development inside an otherwise over fragmented market system.
Different projects of different constellations will be produced each year. Until now Busy Rocks has two existing performances:

Throwing Rocks (by Franziska Aigner and Gabriel Schenker)
Keeping Busy Keeping Still (by Fabian Barba, Marisa Cabal and Tuur Marinus)

Next to continuing to perform those pieces, three projects are planned for the year 2009:

Under the Influece by Franziska Aigner and Gabriel Schenker
Dominos and Butterflies by Franziska Aigner, Fabian Barba, Marisa Cabal, Tuur Marinus and Gabriel Schenker
Shifting Landscape by Fabian Barba