Join the Slow Walk. Become part of a dance performance.
13.06.2026, 10 am – 1 pm Parc du Cinquantenaire, Brussels
What happens to a city when we move through it at five metres per minute? When walking, the most ordinary movement we carry in our own bodies, slows down to the point where it becomes something else entirely: an act of attention, a shared rhythm, a dance?
As part of the Festival of the New European Bauhaus (NEB), GLUON, Rosas and P.A.R.T.S. invite everyone to take part in a Slow Walk through the Parc du Cinquantenaire. Conceived by Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker and Rosas, the Slow Walk transforms the most everyday of movements into a conscious, collective experience. Walking is dancing too.
Moving at an extremely slow pace is exceptional yet accessible to everyone. It is an invitation to decelerate body and mind and to experience the city from a new perspective. As the body slows, the shared space around us comes into focus: the architecture, the people, the textures and the silences we usually pass straight through. In a festival devoted to how we build and inhabit our common environment, the Slow Walk proposes the simplest possible tool for re-perceiving it, at our own pace.
Three groups set off from three different points in the Cinquantenaire, walking at roughly five metres per minute towards the Cinquantenaire Arch, where they arrive together. Each route measures between 750 and 800 metres; the walk itself lasts about two and a half hours. There is no single way to take part: you can join for a long stretch or a few minutes, walk a whole route or step in along the way.
At the arch, everyone is welcome to join a 30-minute workshop of My Walking Is My Dancing, led by Sandy Williams and assisted by students from the dance school P.A.R.T.S. Developed by Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker over many years, it is a simple improvisational practice that opens up space, time and movement, from walking all the way to turning, running and jumping. No previous dance experience is needed.
PRACTICAL INFORMATION
- Date: 13.06.2026
- Meeting point: 10 am at three different starting points Parc du Cinquantenaire, Brussels
- Starting point 1 – at the entrance of the park on the Schuman side
- Starting point 2 – at a side entrance of the park on the Avenue des Nerviens side
- Starting point 3 – at a side entrance of the park on the Avenue de la Renaissance side
- Duration: Slow Walk ± 2.5 hrs; with the closing workshop ± 3 hrs in total
- Pace: ± 5 metres per minute
- Routes: 3 routes of 750–800 m, all ending at the Cinquantenaire Arch
- For whom: Everyone, all ages and abilities. Under 12s accompanied by an adult.
- What to bring: Comfortable shoes and weather-appropriate clothing: walking slowly keeps you less warm. We proceed rain or shine. Bring water and a snack for longer participation.
- Price: Free, no registration required.
PREVIEW THE ROUTES
- Route 1 – start point 1 – at the entrance of the park on the Schuman side
- Route 2 – start point 2 – at a side entrance of the park on the Avenue des Nerviens side
- Route 3 – start point 3 – at a side entrance of the park on the Avenue de la Renaissance side
This Slow Walk is an initiative of GLUON, Rosas and P.A.R.T.S., presented as part of the NEB Festival — the Festival of the New European Bauhaus 2026.
