Meg Stuart / Damaged Goods / EIRA

Meg Stuart's credo is the fragmented, twisted and exposed human body. She made her choreographic debut with Disfigure Study at the Belgium Klapstukfestival in 1991. The production had an unprecedented influence on the dance and performance aesthetics of the nineties and established her own highly personal dance idiom in which the mind and body are often shown in extreme, occasionally contradictory, capacities. Stuart’s work is rooted in New York in the 1980s, where she also first met the Portuguese dancer Francisco Comacho. Comacho later worked with her in Brussels and also participated in creations by Alain Platel and Carlota Lagido, made his own choreographic pieces and founded the EIRA company. In 2007 Meg Stuart created BLESSED a new choreography for Camacho in a sound setting by Hahn Rowe.

Premiere: 8 March 2007, Kunstencentrum Vooruit (Gent)Choreograph: Meg Stuart
Created with and performed by: Francisco Camacho & Kotomi Nishiwaki
Music: Hahn Rowe
Dramaturgy: Bart Van den Eynde
Installation: Doris Dziersk
Costumes: Jean-Paul Lespagnard
Light: Jan Maertens
Assistance choreography: Abraham Hurtado
Production: Tanja Thomsen
Technical co-ordination: Britta Mayer, Jan Maertens
Set assistance: Ania Pas
Costume assistance: Françoise Hottois
Technician: Rinus Van de Velde

Production Damaged Goods & EIRA
Co-production Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz (Berlin), PACT Zollverein (Essen), Kunstencentrum Vooruit (Gent), Centro Cultural de Belém (Lisboa), Théâtre de la Bastille (Paris), Festival d’Automne (Paris)

Meg Stuart & Damaged Goods are supported by the Flemish authorities and the Flemish Community Commission