Pierre Droulers is a French

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 and Belgian

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 choreographer and dancer.

He spent three years in artistic training at Maurice Béjart

Maurice Béjart

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's Mudra School in Brussels

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 and then studied with Jerzy Grotowski

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 in Poland

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. Later, he participated in Bob Wilson

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's workshops in Paris

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. In 1978, during a trip in New York

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, he discovered Steve Paxton

Steve Paxton

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'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

Thierry De Mey

Thierre De Mey is a musician and filmmaker from Belgium.-Biography:After studying film at the IAD, he continued to studying music composition and contemporary dance after meeting Fernand Schirren, for whose works he has written original incidental music...

 and Vincent Thirion.

Creations

• 1976–1978: Dispersion
• 1976–1978: Désert
• 1978–1979: Hedges (solo with saxophonist Steve Lacy
  Steve Lacy
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  )
• 1978–1979: Everlone
• 1980–1981: Tao (with Sherryl Sutton)
• 1981–1982: Tips (with the future Grand Magasin)
• 1982–1983: Pieces for Nothing (original music by Minimal Compact
  Minimal Compact
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  )
• 1983–1984: La Jetée
• 1984–1985: Miserere (with Winston Tong
  Winston Tong
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   and Sussan Deihim)
• 1985–1986: Midi Minuit
• 1985–1986: Improvisation (movie)
• 1986–1987: Face à face (with Michèle Anne De Mey)
• 1987–1988: Cadavres Exquis
• 1991: Remains (with saxophonist Steve Lacy
  Steve Lacy
  Steve Lacy , born Steven Norman Lackritz in New York City, was a jazz saxophonist and composer recognized as one of the important players of soprano saxophone....
  
  )
• 1991: Comme si on était leurs Petits Poucets
• 1992: Humeurs
• 1993: Jamais de l'Abîme
• 1995: Mountain/Fountain (with Belgian artist Michel François)
• 1996: Les Beaux Jours
• 1996: De l'Air et du Vent
• 1997: Petites Formes
• 1998: Multum in Parvo
• 1999: Aventures, Nouvelles Aventures by György Ligeti
  György Ligeti
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   (with Jim Clayburgh
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  )
• 1999: Sortie
• 2001: MA (with Michel François, Ann Veronica Janssens and Yuji Oshima)
• 2002: Sames (duo with Stefan Dreher)
• 2004: Inouï (with Ann Veronica Janssens)
• 2007: Flowers
• 2009: Walk Talk Chalk

External links

• Company Pierre Droulers