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Meg Stuart / Damaged Goods & Dance On Ensemble

GLITCH WITCH

Meg Stuart

is a choreographer, director and dancer who lives and works in Berlin and Brussels. With her company, Damaged Goods, founded in 1994, she has created over thirty productions, ranging from solos and duets such as Hunter (2014) to large-scale choreographies such as CASCADE (2021), video works, site-specific creations and improvisation projects such as City Lights (2016). Stuart’s work moves freely between the genres of dance, theatre and visual arts, driven by an ongoing dialogue with artists from different disciplines. Meg Stuart received several awards in recognition of her oeuvre, including the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at the Biennale di Venezia in 2018.

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Omagbitse Omagbemi

received her BFA in dance at Montclair State University. In 2012, she was awarded a Bessie for Sustained Achievement in Performance. She has performed nationally and internationally with the Punchdrunk production Sleep No More in New York City and Shanghai, as well as in works by Kat Válastur, Yvonne Rainer, Neil Greenberg, Maria Hassabi, Heather Kravas, Deborah Hay, Irish Modern Dance Theater, a.o. Since 2018, she has been a member of the Berlin-based Dance On Ensemble, which works with dancers over the age of 40. GLITCH WITCH is part of a series of new pieces initiated by Dance On, in which the choreographer is visible as a dancer, engaging with a dancer from the Ensemble.

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Mieko Suzuki

is a DJ, sound artist and composer born in Hiroshima and based in Berlin. Grounded in hauling deep bass, her sound performances combine drones and field recordings with the crackling of electrical circuits and fragments of vinyl records. Mieko Suzuki is a member of the improvisation trio Contagious, composed of Andrea Neumann and Sabine Erkelenz. Their first album Contagious was released by Morphine Records in 2019. She has collaborated with Meg Stuart on City Lights (2016), Celestial Sorrow (2018) and Waterworks (2023).

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Credits

Choreography Meg Stuart With Omagbitse Omagbemi, Meg Stuart, Mieko Suzuki Live music Mieko Suzuki (including 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, Kevin Strik (shows Brussels, Leuven) 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 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, 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.

GLITCH WITCH

‘Normally, unison is this classic element of dance that I spend a lot of time trying to get away from. But there is power in that expression of togetherness, precisely because we’re such strong individuals.’ – Meg Stuart

In GLITCH WITCH, choreographer Meg Stuart, dancer Omagbitse Omagbemi, and composer/musician Mieko Suzuki 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.

Artist Talk following the performance on Sat 22.03., Astrid Peterle (curator at Kunsthalle Wien) in conversation with the performers

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Meg Stuart

is a choreographer, director and dancer who lives and works in Berlin and Brussels. With her company, Damaged Goods, founded in 1994, she has created over thirty productions, ranging from solos and duets such as Hunter (2014) to large-scale choreographies such as CASCADE (2021), video works, site-specific creations and improvisation projects such as City Lights (2016). Stuart’s work moves freely between the genres of dance, theatre and visual arts, driven by an ongoing dialogue with artists from different disciplines. Meg Stuart received several awards in recognition of her oeuvre, including the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at the Biennale di Venezia in 2018.

damagedgoods.be

Omagbitse Omagbemi

received her BFA in dance at Montclair State University. In 2012, she was awarded a Bessie for Sustained Achievement in Performance. She has performed nationally and internationally with the Punchdrunk production Sleep No More in New York City and Shanghai, as well as in works by Kat Válastur, Yvonne Rainer, Neil Greenberg, Maria Hassabi, Heather Kravas, Deborah Hay, Irish Modern Dance Theater, a.o. Since 2018, she has been a member of the Berlin-based Dance On Ensemble, which works with dancers over the age of 40. GLITCH WITCH is part of a series of new pieces initiated by Dance On, in which the choreographer is visible as a dancer, engaging with a dancer from the Ensemble.

dance-on.net

Mieko Suzuki

is a DJ, sound artist and composer born in Hiroshima and based in Berlin. Grounded in hauling deep bass, her sound performances combine drones and field recordings with the crackling of electrical circuits and fragments of vinyl records. Mieko Suzuki is a member of the improvisation trio Contagious, composed of Andrea Neumann and Sabine Erkelenz. Their first album Contagious was released by Morphine Records in 2019. She has collaborated with Meg Stuart on City Lights (2016), Celestial Sorrow (2018) and Waterworks (2023).

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Credits

Choreography Meg Stuart With Omagbitse Omagbemi, Meg Stuart, Mieko Suzuki Live music Mieko Suzuki (including 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, Kevin Strik (shows Brussels, Leuven) 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 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, 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.

21.03./
22.03.
Fri/​Sat
19.30
90 min
21.03./
22.03.
Fri/​Sat
19.30
90 min
TQW Halle G
€ 25/20/12
 
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