Atelier
Seeds and murmurs
Meg Stuart returns to the miniature, the seed, the murmur. Shedding one’s skin, discarding possessions and moulting are all preparations for a new life. Asking questions about adaptation, regeneration and fate, Damaged Goods turns the Kaaistudio’s into a working space, a sweat lodge with no immediate results. We don’t know who we are (or what we will find) but you are welcome to have a look in the Atelier. There are no words for this. Only vision and sensations, noise and nostalgia. The practice of alchemy, is it wishful thinking or a greedy resistance to the nature of things?
• In 1991 the American dancer and choreographer Meg Stuart put herself straight onto the international dance map with her debut Disfigure Study. Over the past twenty years she has built up a considerable repertoire comprising such renowned performances as Highway 101, Alibi, LOVE, FORGERIES AND OTHER MATTERS, BLESSED, It’s not funny and Do Animals Cry. Her dance company Damaged Goods is in residence at the Kaaitheater, where most of her work can be seen.
concept & choreography Meg Stuart | created with and performed by Alexander Baczynski-Jenkins, Adam Linder, Kotomi Nishiwaki, Leyla Postalcioglu, Roger Sala Reyner | dramaturgy Myriam Van Imschoot | scenography Jozef Wouters | music Brendan Dougherty | light design Jan Maertens | costume design Jean-Paul Lespagnard | production Damaged Goods (Brussels) | in collaboration with a.s (advanced scenography)
