Meg Stuart

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Meg Stuart (born in New Orleans in 1965 ) is an American dancer and choreographer.

Life

Meg Stuart is a choreographer and dancer and lives and works in Berlin and Brussels. The daughter of theater directors, she began dancing and acting at an early age in California, and appeared regularly in productions of her parents' family friends. She made her first dance studies as a teenager with a focus on simple movement actions. Stuart decided to move to New York in 1983 and studied dance at New York University . She continued her education at Movement Research, where she learned numerous contemporary and forms of release techniques and was active in the New York dance scene.

When she was invited to perform at the Klapstuk Festival in Leuven (1991), she created her first full-length piece “Disfigure-Study”, which launched her artistic career in Europe. In this choreography, Stuart approaches the body as a tangible physical unit that can be deconstructed, distorted or shifted, while still remaining noticeable and making sense. With an interest in working out her own structure, Stuart founded the “Compagnie Damaged Goods” in Brussels in 1994 to develop her artistic projects. Damaged Goods is a flexible, open structure that enables the production of widely varying projects and interdisciplinary collaboration. Meg Stuart and Damaged Goods have created over thirty productions, from solos to group pieces as well as site-specific works, installations and improvisation projects.

Stuart strives to develop a new language for each piece in collaboration with artists from various creative disciplines and works in the field of tension between dance and theater. The use of theater objects, alongside the dialogue between movement and narration, are recurring themes in her choreographies. Stuart's choreographic work revolves around the idea of ​​an impermanent body that is vulnerable and self-reflective. Through improvisation, Stuart explores physical and emotional states or memories of them. Her artistic work is analogous to a constantly changing identity. You are constantly redefining yourself in search of new presentation contexts and areas for dance.

At the invitation of the artistic director Johan Simons , Meg Stuart / Damaged Goods became an associated company at the Münchner Kammerspiele in 2010 . Damaged Goods often cooperates with the Kaaitheater (Brussels) and the HAU Hebbel am Ufer (Berlin). In 2014 Meg Stuart / Damaged Goods toured the tracks "BLESSED" (2007), "VIOLET" (2011), "Built to Last" (2012), "Sketches / Notebook" (2013) and "Hunter" (2014). In 2019 she was the artistic director of the "Tanzkongress" organized by the Federal Cultural Foundation in Dresden-Hellerau with the subtitle "A Long Lasting Affair".

She has been a member of the Berlin Academy of the Arts since 2014 .

Choreographies (selection)

  • Disfigure Study , 1991
  • No Longer Readymade , 1993
  • Swallow my yellow smile , 1994
  • No One is Watching , 1995
  • Inside Skin # 1 They live in Our Breath , 1996
  • Splayed Mind Out , 1997
  • Remote , 1997
  • appetite , 1999
  • Comeback , 1999
  • Snapshots , 1999
  • Highway 101 , 2000/2001
  • Alibi , 2001
  • Henry IV , 2002
  • Visitors Only , 2003
  • The golden age , 2003
  • Forgeries, Love and other Matters , 2004
  • The phale of torture , 2005
  • REPLACEMENT , 2006
  • It's not funny! , 2006
  • Blessed , 2007
  • Maybe Forever , 2007
  • All Together Now , 2008
  • The measure / Mauser , 2008
  • Do Animals Cry , 2009
  • the fault lines , 2010
  • VIOLET , 2011
  • Built to Last , 2012
  • Sketches / Notebook , 2013
  • Hunter , 2014

Awards

In 2008, her entire oeuvre received the Bessie Award and the Culture Prize of the Flemish Community . Meg Stuart was awarded the Konrad Wolf Prize by the Berlin Academy of the Arts in 2012 . In 2017 she was awarded the Golden Lion of the Dance Biennale in Venice for her life's work.

literature

  • Jeroen Peeters: "Are we here yet?". Dijon: Les presses du réel 2010
  • Astrid Hackel: Calculated loss of control: The black room in Meg Stuart's dance performance ALL TOGETHER NOW , in: Ruth Reiche (Ed.): Transformations in the arts: boundaries and delimitation in visual arts, film, theater and music . Bielefeld: Transcript, 2011
  • Katharina Pewny: The drama of the precarious: about the return of ethics in theater and performance . Bielefeld: Transcript 2011
  • Stefanie Carp : Berlin. Zurich. Hamburg. Texts on theater and society. Theater der Zeit, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-934344-86-0
  • Annamira Jochim: Meg Stuart. Image in motion and choreography . Bielefeld: Transcript, 2008
  • Meg Stuart . Munich: Kieser, 2007
  • Flicker and toggle. Meg Stuart in conversation with Scott Delahunta , in: Susanne Gehm (Hrsg.): Knowledge in motion: perspectives of artistic and scientific research in dance . Bielefeld: Transcript 2007 pp. 135-141
  • Annamira Jochim: Zoom in Zoom out , in: Nicola Behrmann, Birgit Mersmann (eds.): Cultures of the Image . Munich: Fink 2006, pp. 325-340

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Meg Stuart , at PACT Zollverein
  2. ^ For life's work: Choreographer Meg Stuart receives Golden Lion , nachtkritik.de, accessed January 17, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Stuart, Meg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American dancer and choreographer
DATE OF BIRTH 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH New Orleans