November 2007: Thomas Hauert has created a new piece for the fourth year students of the Brussels school PARTS. 12/8 will have its premiere at The Space in London.

This project is based on a choreographic method using the memory of music as the unifying score for the movement of a group. The music (that the audience don’t hear) is 12 por 8 by Alejandro Sanz, a musically complex pop song in a 12/8 time signature, combining binary and tertiary rhythms. The fourth year PARTS students learned to sing an a capella arrangement by heart and sing it in their heads, communicating through movement with the others to stay in sync.