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The American choreographer Meg Stuart creates new work with Francisco Camacho

The American dancer Meg Stuart made her debut as a choreographer with Disfigure Study at the Klapstukfestival in 1991. Her work is rooted in New York in the 80s, where she developed her first short choreographic work. It was also there that she met the Portuguese dancer Francisco Camacho. Camacho completed his training as a dancer there during this period and followed Meg Stuart to Belgium to dance in her debut work.

After this collaboration each went their own way. Meg Stuart set up her dance group, Damaged Goods, in Brussels and also created work with her company in Zurich and Berlin. She developed a highly personal dance idiom in which mind and body are often shown in extreme, occasionally contradictory, capacities. Camacho also participated in creations by Alain Platel and Carlota Lagido, made his own choreographic pieces and founded the Eira company. In 1999 their paths crossed once more, although very briefly, in the Moscow instalment of the improvisation project Crash Landing.

In 2007 they will be working together once more, Meg Stuart will create a new choreography with Camacho in a sound setting by Hahn Rowe.