Meg Stuart / Damaged Goods / Philipp Gehmacher / Vladimir Miller

With ›the fault lines‹, choreographers Meg Stuart and Philipp Gehmacher and visual artist Vladimir Miller have achieved a sensitive masterpiece. What begins as an intense physical interaction gradually, almost imperceptibly, becomes a fascinating video installation. Again and again the perspectives of the audience on the two performers shift. While at the beginning they are bodies that seem entangled with another in love or struggle, the installation level of the video gradually reveals details that were previously concealed. Random movements and only seemingly fleeting moments take on a new meaning—a truth all its own along the ›the fault lines‹ between two extremely vulnerable bodies that encounter one another in intimacy and distance, in dream-like abstraction and undisguised precision, manipulating and repairing, dividing, separating, and finding one another once again.

By: Philipp Gehmacher, Vladimir Miller, Meg Stuart

Light: Jan Maertens

Sound: Vincent Malstaf

Costumes: Nina Gundlach

Artistic assistance: Philipp Hochleichter

Stage assistance: Ania Pas

Production: Damaged Goods, Mumbling Fish

Co-production: SZENE Salzburg

Meg Stuart / Damaged Goods are supported by the Flemish Authorities and the Flemish Community Commission

Philipp Gehmacher / Mumbling Fish are supported by the Culture Department of the City of Vienna

www.damagedgoods.be

www.philippgehmacher.net