by MEG STUART/ DAMAGED GOODS
choreography Meg Stuart
created with Alexander Baczynski-Jenkins, Varinia Canto Vila, Adam Linder, Kotomi Nishiwaki,
Roger Sala Reyner
performed by Márcio Kerber Canabarro, Mor Demer, Renan Martins de Oliveira, Kotomi Nishiwaki,
Roger Sala Reyner
live music Brendan Dougherty
dramaturgy Myriam Van Imschoot
scenography Janina Audick
light design Jan Maertens
costumes Nina Kroschinske
sound design Richard König
assistant scenography Julia Kneusels
assistant costumes Nina Witkiewicz
rehearsal coach Joséphine Evrard
technical director Oliver Houttekiet
light Pierre Willems
production manager Eline Verzelen
assistant production Mira Moschallski
tour manager Delphine Vincent
thanks to Ulrike Bodammer, Eric Andrew Green, Claudia Hill, Leyla Postalcioglu, Anna-Luise Recke,
Annegret Riediger, Jozef Wouters
production Damaged Goods (Brussels)
co-production PACT Zollverein (Essen), Festival d'Avignon (Avignon), Festival d’Automne à Paris (Paris),
Les Spectacles Vivants – Centre Pompidou (Paris), La Bâtie-Festival de Genève (Geneva),
Kaaitheater (Brussels)
in collaboration with RADIALSYSTEM V and Uferstudios (Berlin)
with special support of Hauptstadtkulturfonds (Berlin)
Meg Stuart & Damaged Goods are supported by the Flemish authorities and the Flemish Community
Commission
Five dancers reveal simultaneously and singularly an energetic landscape, a charged terrain of options. Their actions are manifestations of surging phenomena, imperceptible but always active. VIOLET is a steep descent into a maelstrom, a swirl of energetic patterns and kinetic sculptures full of detail, partnered live on stage by musician Brendan Dougherty on electronics and percussion.
After a period of cross-breeding with other art forms and collaborations, Meg Stuart turns in VIOLET 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.
Meg Stuart, is an American choreographer and dancer, working and living in Berlin (D) and Brussels (B). She founded her own company, Damaged Goods, in Brussels through which she has realized over 30 productions, ranging from solos to large-scale choreographies, site-specific creations and improvisation projects.
Stuart strives to develop a new language for every piece in collaboration with artists from different creative disciplines and navigates the tension between dance and theatre. Her work revolves around the idea of an uncertain body, one that is vulnerable and self-reflexive, and constantly redefines itself while searching for new presentation contexts and territories for dance. Meg Stuart received various awards for her oeuvre and practice, of which the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement awarded by La Biennale di Venezia is the most recent one.
DAMAGED GOODS
To have company “means that you are not alone, that you share yourself and your place with others. Damaged Goods is a constantly shifting identity, always redefining itself and searching for contexts. The company reconfigures from project to project. I like to create an open structure where dancers are independent, passing through change, shape the work’s nature.” - Meg Stuart.
From the Press:
Die Aura-Jägerin
Revisited: Die Avantgarde-Choreografin zeigt im HAU ihre eigensinnigen Erfolgsstücke VIOLET (2015 Tip Berlin)
Just doing Violet
Violet pushes some kind of edge. You get a bit disoriented because the dancers get dizzy, the atmosphere gets delirious, it’s hot and the music is getting loud. You lose a bit of ground.
(2012 Springdance Magazine)
Non shrinking Violet
Propelled by loud sound and booming silence, Meg Stuart’s new choreography channels pent-up energies – natural, musical and alchemical – and slams with the force of a tsunami.
(2011 The Bulletin)
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