choreographed by Meg Stuart
Five dancers reveal simultaneously and singularly an energetic landscape, a charged terrain of options. Their actions are manifestations of surging phenomena, imperceptible but always active. VIOLET is a steep descent into a maelstrom, a swirl of energetic patterns and kinetic sculptures full of detail, partnered live on stage by musician Brendan Dougherty on electronics and percussion.
After a period of cross-breeding with other art forms and collaborations, Meg Stuart turns in VIOLET to movement as its primary motor, pairing choreography with an alchemy of the senses. Perhaps the most abstract piece so far in her long standing career, VIOLET bears Stuart’s unique signature, an art that hones a frail ‘condition humaine’ in its intense physical emergence.
Choreography Meg Stuart
created with Alexander Baczynski-Jenkins, Varinia Canto Vila, Adam Linder, Kotomi Nishiwaki,
Roger Sala Reyner
performed by Márcio Kerber Canabarro, Mor Demer, Renan Martins de Oliveira, Kotomi Nishiwaki,
Roger Sala Reyner
live music Brendan Dougherty
dramaturgy Myriam Van Imschoot
scenography Janina Audick
light design Jan Maertens
costumes Nina Kroschinske
sound design Richard König
assistant scenography Julia Kneusels
assistant costumes Nina Witkiewicz
rehearsal coach Joséphine Evrard
technical director Oliver Houttekiet
light Pierre Willems
production manager Eline Verzelen
assistant production Mira Moschallski
tour manager Delphine Vincent
thanks to Ulrike Bodammer, Eric Andrew Green, Claudia Hill, Leyla Postalcioglu, Anna-Luise Recke, Annegret Riediger, Jozef Wouters.
production Damaged Goods (Brussels)
co-production PACT Zollverein (Essen), Festival d'Avignon (Avignon), Festival d’Automne à Paris (Paris), Les Spectacles Vivants – Centre Pompidou (Paris), La Bâtie-Festival de Genève (Geneva), Kaaitheater (Brussels)
in collaboration with RADIALSYSTEM V and Uferstudios (Berlin)
with special support of Hauptstadtkulturfonds (Berlin) Meg Stuart & Damaged Goods are supported by the Flemish authorities and the Flemish Community Commission.
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