Creation 24 (working title)
How do you share a creative process? Where is the tension located between what the choreographer wants and how to interpret her work? In her latest performance, choreographer Meg Stuart collaborates with dancer Omagbitse Omagbemi and composer/musician Mieko Suzuki. How can they transcend and reinvent their roles?
The trio searches for a shared language, using the body as a testing ground. In her own work, Meg mainly sees a search for balance around choreographic principles and how to dismantle them whereas Omagbitse sees an understated caring behind Meg's raw physical language. With this apparent contradiction, the three artists build, transform and move towards an elusive group portrait.
This performance is part of the European project DANCE ON, PASS ON, DREAM ON, which is working on the revaluation of older dancers and choreographers. Together with the DANCE ON ENSEMBLE, working with 40+ dancers, the project supports new performances and explores our common dance heritage.
• Meg Stuart moves freely between dance, theatre and visual art. She is a choreographer, dancer and director who shares her time between Brussels and Berlin. Her company Damaged Goods has collaborated with Kaaitheater for many years and she has brought most of her work here. Meg won the Golden Lion for 'Lifetime Achievement' at the 2018 Venice Biennale.
• Omagbitse Omagbemi is an American dancer and received the Bessie Award for Sustained Achievement in Performance in 2012. As a dancer, she has danced in works by Joanna Kotze, Yvonne Rainer, Maria Hassabi and Deborah Hay and more She has been part of the Dance On Ensemble since 2018.
• Mieko Suzuki is a sound artist and composer based in Berlin. In between the field recordings, her work echoes deep bass and drone sounds. She always starts from a particular look on space and people, whether it is a club in a basement or a dance performance. Mieke and Meg were last seen together at the Quay Studios in Meg's performance Celestial Sorrows. Mieko was also on the programme of Barbara Raes' project U-Loss at Performatik 2019 and played an unforgettable set at the Performatik closing party.
choreography Meg Stuart | with Omagbitse Omagbemi, Meg Stuart | live music Mieko Suzuki | scenography Nadia Lauro | light design Nico de Rooij | costume design Claudia Hill | dramaturgy Igor Dobricic | artistic assistants Luna Luz Sanchez, Valentin Braun ⎸ production Damaged Goods and DANCE ON / Bureau Ritter | coproduction Théâtre Garonne – scène européenne Toulouse, Centre Chorégraphique National d’Orléans, HAU Hebbel am Ufer Berlin, Tanzquartier Wien, PACT Zollverein Essen, Kunstencentrum VIERNULVIER Ghent, Perpodium | with the support of Goethe-Institut and the tax shelter measure of the Belgian Federal Government via Cronos Invest | residency in Orléans is supported by Culture Moves Europe, a project funded by the European Union and Goethe-Institut | Damaged Goods is supported by the Flemish Government and Flemish Community Commission. Meg Stuart/Damaged Goods is artist-in-residence at Kunstencentrum VIERNULVIER (Ghent) | DANCE ON is a project by Bureau Ritter gUG, funded by the German Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media, the Senate Department for Culture and Europe of the State of Berlin and co-funded by the Creative Europe programme of the European Union as part of DANCE ON, PASS ON, DREAM ON
