Dance story
Meg Stuart – Damaged Goods
Meg Stuart – Damaged Goods
In 1991, Klapstuk festival in Leuven (BE) presented Meg Stuart‘s work for the first time in Europe. The full-length new production Disfigure Study was highly acclaimed in Belgium and beyond. She presented her second piece, No Longer Readymade in 1993. It toured extensively and launched her artistic career. Inspired by the artistic climate in Belgium and interested in building her own structure, Stuart founded Damaged Goods in Brussels in 1994.
Meg Stuart / Damaged Goods has an ongoing collaboration with Kaaitheater in Brussels and HAU Hebbel am Ufer in Berlin, and has been a resident at Schauspielhaus Zürich (2000-2004) and Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz in Berlin (2005-2010). In the period 2023-2027, Meg Stuart and Jozef Wouters are artists in residence in Kunstencentrum VIERNULVIER in Ghent (BE).
Performances organised by Mondigromax:
AN EVENING OF SOLO WORKS
Choreography and performer Meg Stuart
In her solo works, Meg Stuart continues to venture into the monologue of movement, exploring everyday movements and physical conditions through improvisation. Over the past few years, she created several solos including XXX for Arlene and Colleagues (1995), Soft Wear (2000) and Signs of Affection (2010). An evening of solo works presents a selection of former solo works, as well as excerpts from evening-length performances.
November 8, 2019
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid
How to translate sensations and inner monologues into movement? Is it possible to track the hesitation before speaking, the movements not chosen, the spaces we travel to when we are daydreaming, the memories and projections that cloud our awareness of the present? Meg Stuart
VIOLET
Large-scale choreography by Meg Stuart
Live music on stage by Brendan Dougherty on electronics and percussion
November 9 to 11, 2018
Mercat de les Flors-Sala Maria Aurèlia Capmany, Barcelona
In VIOLET, Meg Stuart turns to movement as its primary motor, pairing choreography with an alchemy of the senses. Perhaps the most abstract piece so far in her long standing career, VIOLET bears Stuart’s unique signature, an art that hones a frail ‘condition humaine’ in its intense physical emergence.
AN EVENING OF SOLO WORKS
Choreography and performer Meg Stuart
November 7 to 8, 2018
Mercat de les Flors-Sala Pina Bausch, Barcelona
Meg Stuart has created a number of solos in which she explores daily movements and physical conditions. “An evening of solo works” presents a selection of these solos, as well as fragments from longer pieces.
BUILT TO LAST
Choreography and performer Meg Stuart
October 6 and 7, 2017
Teatro Arriaga, Bilbao
Damaged Goods, the ballet by American choreographer and dancer Meg Stuart will show her creation Built to last, in which five dancers travel through the history of dance and possibly also towards their future.