Meg Stuart

Video: „Do Animals Cry“

Meg Stuart developed her first choreographies in the eighties in New York. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Dance from the New York University and was a member of the Randy Warshaw Dance Company for five years. On invitation from the Klapstuk Festival in Leuven 1991, she created her first full-length piece “Disfigure Study”. Together with her Brussels-based company Damaged Goods, located in Brussels, she began around 1994 a series of collaborations with visual artists, including Lawrence Malstaf, Bruce Mau, Gary Hill and Ann Hamilton. From 2000 to 2001 Meg Stuart and Damaged Goods created the site-specific project “Highway 101” in close collaboration with director Stefan Pucher and the video artist Jorge Leon. 2001 to 2004 Meg Stuart and Damaged Goods were artist in residence at the Schauspielhaus Zurich. In 2003 the company also began a partnership with the Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, Berlin. Meg Stuart/Damaged Goods are supported by the Gouvernment of Flanders and the Flemish Community Commission.