About us

LanDans Festival is a new cultural event in Landen. It is about dance, arts, workshops and more!

With this festival, we want to create a space in Landen where everyone feels a sense of home. Be yourself, but also discover something new within yourself. A place of exchange between communities through dance and art.

For the first edition of this festival, we invite GXI.

GXI is a group of international artists who graduated from P.A.R.T.S. in 2016. They are the 11th generation of students since the school’s founding — Generation XI, which inspired their name.

During their final year, they created the GXI Festival as their own graduation festival, organized independently from the school curriculum. A group of students approached P.A.R.T.S. with the idea of celebrating the end of their three years of training through a self-organized festival.

The initiative was a great success. Inspired by it, P.A.R.T.S. later integrated an end-of-year festival into the official curriculum. GXI is therefore proud to have initiated a tradition that continues at the school today.

Ten years later, one of the GXI members now lives in Landen. She initiated the idea of organizing a 10-year reunion as a new cultural event in the city.

The festival presents what GXI artists are currently working on, bringing together the diverse practices and experiences they have developed over the past decade. These artistic perspectives and knowledge are shared with communities in Landen and beyond.

When GXI first created its graduation festival, the initiative inspired P.A.R.T.S. to integrate an end-of-year festival into the school curriculum. In the same spirit, we hope that the LanDans Festival will give new momentum to the cultural life of Landen and contribute to the development of its local arts scene.