Rosas is a dance company from Brussels founded and led by the Flemish choreographer and dancer Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker. Having risen to instant international fame with her debut performance Fase, four movements to the music of Steve Reich (1982), de Keersmaeker went on to found her own company Rosas a year later, Rosas danst Rosas being their first performance. Over the course of thirty years, the company has built an impressive body of work, which includes works such as Drumming (1998) Raga for the Rainy Season / A Love Supreme (2005), Zeitung (2008), and the three productions which featured at the Holland Festival 2010: Keeping Still part I, The Song and 3Abschied. Rosas' dance aesthetic is to create pure writing with movement in space and time, based on the relationship between movement and music, or, in some productions, between dance and text. With its permanent ensemble of dancers, the company's structure enables a personal development plan for each individual dancer. Whilst creating new productions, Rosas also continues to perform from its repertoire. The company has intensive working relationships with established international cultural organisations as well as a regular association with a number of smaller venues. Having set itself an explicit task to promote art education, Rosas has developed a number of educational and participatory projects. Some of these, including the Bal Modern event, the international educational institute Performing Arts Research and Training Studios (P.A.R.T.S.) and the residence programme Workspacebrussels, have succeeded in becoming independent organisations, creating space for new projects such as Dancingkids and Rondomdans. Rosas shares its infrastructure not only with P.A.R.T.S., but also with the contemporary music ensemble Ictus, Workspace Brussels, the Summer Studios’ summer guests, and other companies.