The performances, which will be staged in the theatre and in specially created performance spaces throughout The Place's building, are by Belgian contemporary dance maverick Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, her company Rosas and current and former students from her academy PARTS (Performance Art and Research Training Studios). With the arrival of the Eurostar, the journey time between their Brussels base and The Place will be less than two hours.

The weekend is entitled Sum/Some of the PARTS (all over The Place). At its centre are UK premieres of two works by Rosas: A Love Supreme on Saturday 17 and Sister on Sunday 18. Other highlights include the 2007 graduating class of PARTS in a world premiere by Thomas Hauert, a duet for a dancer and her mother and the UK debut of a Slovakian company who first performed with one another when they were five years old. PARTS has a celebrated track-record of developing some of the most innovative dance makers currently working in Europe - yet many of the former students showing work are doing so in the UK for the first time. As the Continent gets ever closer to the UK, Sum/Some of the PARTS (all over The Place) challenges British dance lovers to immerse themselves in a truly European dance event.

Sum/Some of the PARTS (all over The Place) is part of Arrivals, a Kings Cross-wide festival co-ordinated by Create KX in association with St Pancras International.

The main event in the Robin Howard Dance Theatre on Friday 16 November is a double bill featuring the world premiere of 12/8, choreographed by Thomas Hauert and performed by fourth-year graduating students of PARTS, and Arco Renz's heroïne. Swiss-born Thomas Hauert danced with Rosas for three years, founding his own company Zoo in 1997. 12/8 is based on a choreographic method using the memory of a particular piece of music, which the dancers have learned to sing internally to keep them in synch with one another. Inspired by German Expressionist films of the 1920's and traditional Eastern dance and theatre forms, Arco Renz and Taiwanese performer Su Wen-Chi have created the duet heroïne to explore the fundamental differences between Eastern and Western cultures as expressed through the performing arts. Renz is a member of the first generation of PARTS students, which graduated in 1998 and is referred to as 'the pioneering group'.

Second-year PARTS students, under the direction of Marta Coronado, will perform their own version of Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker's iconic Drumming. The students learned the basic dance phrases and transformations, but manipulated the award-winning piece, set to Steve Reich's composition of the same name, to create a new work of their own. Also on Friday, PARTS graduate and performer with Jean Abreu Dance Company, Lodie Kardouss performs a solo of pure dance called Lodiesolo Project 4, version 3.3.

Ugo Dehaes and Keren Levi's Couple-like concerns two people trying to act 'as one' and encountering friction, then trust and eventual tenderness. Part of the creation of Couple-like involved overcoming the initial discomfort felt by Dehaes, who has studied at PARTS, and former Batsheva Ensemble dancer Levi in not knowing one another when beginning work on such a physical piece. Slovakian native Milan Tomášik studied at PARTS and is a co-founder of Les SlovaKs Dance Collective. In the solo Within, Tomášik deals with the integrity of the inner and the outer, the tangible and the intangible.

A highlight of Saturday's programme is the UK premiere of A Love Supreme, choreographed by De Keersmaeker and Salva Sanchis and set to jazz legend John Coltrane's album of the same name. The choreography mirrors the tension between complexity and simplicity in what is widely regarded as one of the seminal recordings of 20th-century jazz. The four dancers echo Coltrane's quartet, as well as A Love Supreme's four sections, with the performers emphatically inhabiting the ecstatic music. Anton Lachky, Milan Herich, Milan Tomášik, Peter Jasko (all former PARTS students) and Martin Kilvady (a former Rosas dancer) first performed together as five-year-olds at a folk dance festival in their native Slovakia and came across one another again while working with companies including Rosas, Ultima Vez and Akram Khan. Their shared background forms the basis for their first piece of collective work, appropriately called Les SlovaKs Dance Collective's Opening Night.

Sonia Gómez studied contemporary dance and choreography at the Institut del Teatre in Barcelona and at PARTS. Mi Madre y Yo is a duet for Gómez and her mother Rosa Vicente in which they explore their differences and physical similarities. Canadian dancer and PARTS graduate Lise Vachon performs Bliss, a solo based around our relationship to time and the desire to relive or edit precise moments. Anani Dodji Sanouvi, De Keersmaeker's apprentice for one year as part of the Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative, and Moya Michael, a PARTS graduate, perform their duet Music for Pieces of Wood to Steve Reich's piece of music of the same name. Lisbeth Gruwez has performed in works by Jan Fabre, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui and Jan Lauwers and makes her choreographic debut with Forever Overhead, a physical drawing about the art of falling. Current PARTS students will present Short Formats - a series of choreographic sketches in Studio 8 on Saturday and Sunday.

Sum/Some of the PARTS (All Over The Place) culminates in the UK premiere of Rosas' Sister performed by Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker and Vincent Dunoyer. Sister is based on photographs of dancer Fumiyo Ikeda in poses from all of the Rosas pieces she has ever danced in. Two photos were given to each member of the Rosas company with the instruction to choreograph a phrase linking the two. Dunoyer learned the phrases, stringing them together into a solo, which he taught to De Keersmaeker. The two solos are performed consecutively.

Melanie Munt studied dance in Berlin, Rotterdam, and New York and has worked as a dancer and choreographer in Belgium since graduating from PARTS in 1999. Popsongs uses the structure of a pop concert to line up seven 'songs', each one exploring a different emotion or atmosphere. PARTS turned Anabel Schellekens from a civil engineering student into a choreographer. Vous permettez? is a duet for Schellekens and Thomas Devens, performed in very intimate spaces allowing the spectator to explore dance within a personal context.

Originally from New Mexico, Eleanor Bauer has worked as a dance critic, administrator, dancer, and choreographer, graduating from PARTS in 2006. ELEANOR! is an incisive and humorous portrait of the frenetic and schizophrenic habits induced by an emerging artist's basic survival needs: money and recognition. Philippe Blanchard and British-born former PARTS student Gemma Higginbotham have worked together since 2005. Their duet One's Company, Two's a Crowd explores individuality, our need to bond and the games that we play within social relationships. -- www.theplace.org.uk