Meg Stuart/Damaged Goods & Dance On Ensemble ›Glitch Witch‹

In the organizer's words:

Choreographer Meg Stuart, dancer Omagbitse Omagbemi and musician Mieko Suzuki meet in an enigmatic landscape. Moving within and beyond the personal histories inscribed in their bodies, they glide and stumble between possible worlds - between above and below, between the before and after of each moment.

As they try to break the spell of personal and ancient memories that separate them, they search for a common language. Overlapping patterns of movement emerge from a pulsating sequence of dances that shimmer and never stand still. In them, the three women discover a common (witch) power, a vulnerable ritual of solidarity, with the help of which they can overcome their differences.

In these fleeting encounters, disturbances emerge, those glitches that ignite a vocabulary of resistance and devotion - a collective chant that dissolves all enchantments.

The performance was created as part of a collaboration between Meg Stuart/Damaged Goods and the Berlin Dance On Ensemble, which works with dancers over 40.

Further information

Duration
90 minutes

Sensory stimuli
Increased volume level, strong bass, use of strobe light effects, complete darkness in places

Content notes
Nudity

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 Set design Nadia Lauro Lighting design Nico de Rooij Costume Claudia Hill in collaboration with the performers Artistic assistance Valentin Braun, Luna Luz Sanchez Costume assistance Kahori Furukawa, Juliane Längin Technical coordination Tom De Langhe Sound Vagelis Tsatsis Lighting Nico de Rooij Stage management Matty Zighem Production management Hélène Philippot

Production Damaged Goods and DANCE ON / Bureau RitterCo-production 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. Supported by the Goethe-Institut and the Tax Shelter 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 the Goethe-Institut.

Damaged Goods is supported by the Flemish Government and the 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 Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media, the Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion and co-financed by the Creative Europe program of the European Union within the framework of DANCE ON, PASS ON, DREAM ON.