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Meg Stuart/Damaged Goods & Dance On Ensemble

GLITCH WITCH
VIERNULVIER
  • Sat 21.12
    20:00 - 21:30
    De Vooruit, Gent
    THEATERZAAL
    Tickets
  • Thu 19.12
    20:00 - 21:30
    De Vooruit, Gent
    THEATERZAAL
    Past event
  • Fri 20.12
    20:00 - 21:30
    De Vooruit, Gent
    THEATERZAAL
    Past event

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Meg Stuart transforms dance and music into a group portrait

In 2018, Meg Stuart was honored with the Golden Lion for 'Lifetime Achievement' at the Venice Biennale. She was recognized for her innovative work in dance and theater, weaving together various disciplines. With 'GLITCH WITCH,' she explores new boundaries, this time with Dance On Ensemble dancer Omagbitse Omagbemi and Japanese sound artist Mieko Suzuki.

In this show, the three of them meet in a sparklingly desolate, enigmatically burned-out landscape. Moving within and beyond the personal histories imprinted on their bodies, they glide and glitch between different possible worlds—between above and below, between the before and after of every passing moment.

While trying to break the spell of personal and ancestral memories that keep them apart, they search for a not-yet-existent shared language. In their quest, a pulsating progression of shimmering, mutable dances unfolds. Within this series of overlapping movement patterns, the three women gradually uncover a shared (witch)craft: a resonant force of mutual transformations and a vulnerable ritual of solidarity that elevates them above their differences.

Glitches emerge at the volatile points of their encounters, becoming a growing vocabulary of resistance and surrender, a collective chant that disrupts all enchantments.

This performance was created as part of a collaboration between Meg Stuart/Damaged Goods and the Berlin-based Dance On Ensemble, which works with dancers over the age of 40. Within their Encounters series, the company is launching new performances where the choreographer is visible as a dancer, engaging with a dancer from the Ensemble.

 

Pulsing encounter

“GLITCH WITCH verbeeldt een ­poging tot bevrijding uit een verstikkend lichaam én een verstikkende omgeving.”

★★★★ De Standaard

Maker

Meg Stuart

Resident

Choreography: Meg Stuart - With: Omagbitse Omagbemi, Meg Stuart, Mieko Suzuki - Live music: Mieko Suzuki (incl. music by Oren Ambarchi & Robin Fox, Naaahhh, Brett Naucke, Charlemagne Palestine, Saturn And The Sun, Shaped Noise, Mieko Suzuki, Voov, Jeff Witscher, Christian Zanesi) - Dramaturgy: Igor Dobričić - Scenography: Nadia Lauro - Light design: Nico de Rooij - Costume design: Claudia Hill in collaboration with the performers - Artistic assistance: Valentin Braun, Luna Luz Sanchez - Costume assistance: Kahori Furukawa, Juliane Längin - Technical coordinator: Tom De Langhe - Sound: Vagelis Tsatsis - Light: Nico de Rooij - Stage manager: Matty Zighem - Production director: Hélène Philippot - Production: Damaged Goods and DANCE ON / Bureau Ritter - Coproduction: Théâtre Garonne – scène européenne Toulouse, Centre Chorégraphique National d’Orléans  – Direction Maud Le Pladec, 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

The 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 Social Cohesion 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