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Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker (b. 1960, Mechelen) is one of the most influential choreographers in contemporary dance. After studying at Mudra in Brussels and the Tisch School of the Arts in New York, she made her breakthrough with Fase (1982) and founded her company Rosas in Brussels in 1983, during the creation of the now-iconic Rosas danst Rosas. Based in Brussels and company-in-residence at La Monnaie / De Munt from 1992, Rosas has grown into one of the world's leading contemporary dance companies, touring an extensive repertoire across the globe and continually renewing the dialogue between dance and music. In 1995 De Keersmaeker further established the renowned school P.A.R.T.S. (Performing Arts Research and Training Studios) in association with La Monnaie. Across four decades, the rigorous, musically grounded body of work she has built with Rosas has explored the relationship between movement, time and space, drawing its formal principles from geometry, numerical patterns and the natural world. Central to her recent choreography is a principle she calls "My Walking Is My Dancing": the idea that the simplest of movements — walking — already contains dance. The Slow Walk extends this principle into public space, inviting everyone, regardless of age or experience, to rediscover the city and one another at a radically slowed pace. For the NEB Festival, the Slow Walk is brought to the Parc du Cinquantenaire by Brussels-based arts & research organisation GLUON, performed by the dancers of Rosas and guided by Sandy Williams, together with students from P.A.R.T.S.