Meg Stuart: Family Matters
Place: Calgary
Event: The Goethe-Institut is proud to support the North American tour of famous Berlin-based choreographer Meg Stuart, with stops in Toronto, Calgary and Montreal.
The show, which garnered rave reviews at its premiere in France last year, takes the shifting and fundamentally strange psychology of bonding and relationships within the family as its dance theatre template.
The familial characters portrayed by her six dancers, says Stuart, are people "deeply enmeshed in each other's issues."
"The main plan (of the piece) is that people have roles, but they somehow refuse them, or they don't really know how to be in the roles of the father, child, or mother." […]
Event: The Goethe-Institut is proud to support the North American tour of famous Berlin-based choreographer Meg Stuart, with stops in Toronto, Calgary and Montreal.
The show, which garnered rave reviews at its premiere in France last year, takes the shifting and fundamentally strange psychology of bonding and relationships within the family as its dance theatre template.
The familial characters portrayed by her six dancers, says Stuart, are people "deeply enmeshed in each other's issues."
"The main plan (of the piece) is that people have roles, but they somehow refuse them, or they don't really know how to be in the roles of the father, child, or mother." […]
by Bob Clark, Calgary Herald, 4 March 2010
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