›GLITCH WITCH‹ brings together choreographer Meg Stuart, dancer Omagbitse Omagbemi, and musician Mieko Suzuki in a desolate, enigmatic and scorched landscape. Moving within and beyond the personal histories imprinted on their bodies, they glide and glitch between possible worlds – between above and below, between the before and after of every passing moment.

As they try to break the spell of personal and ancestral memories that keep them apart, they search for a common language. Overlapping movement patterns emerge from a pulsating progression of shimmering, mutable dances. The three women uncover a shared (witch) craft, a vulnerable ritual of solidarity that helps them to overcome their differences.

Glitches emerge at the volatile points of their encounters, sparking a growing vocabulary of resistance and surrender – a collective chant that disrupts all enchantments.

The performance was created within the 'Encounters' series of the Berlin Dance On Ensemble, which works with dancers over the age of 40.

 

Choreography Meg Stuart With Omagbitse Omagbemi, Meg Stuart, Mieko Suzuki Live Music Mieko Suzuki (inkl. musik von Oren Ambarchi & Robin Fox, Naaahhh, Brett Naucke, Charlemagne Palestine, Saturn And The Sun, Shaped Noise, Mieko Suzuki, Voov, Jeff Witscher, Christian Zanesi) Dramaturgy Igor Dobričić Scenography Nadia Lauro Light Design Nico de Rooij Costume Design Claudia Hill in collaboration with the performers Artistic Assistance Valentin Braun, Luna Luz Sanchez Costume Assistance Kahori Furukawa, Juliane Längin Technical Coordination Tom De Langhe Sound Vagelis Tsatsis Light Nico de Rooij Stage Management Matty Zighem Production Director Hélène Philippot 

Production Damaged Goods and DANCE ON / Bureau Ritter Coproduction Théâtre Garonne – scène européenne Toulouse, Centre Chorégraphique National d’Orléans – Direction Maud Le Pladec, HAU Hebbel am Ufer Berlin, Tanzquartier Wien, PACT Zollverein Essen, Kunstencentrum VIERNULVIER Ghent, Perpodium. 

With the support of Goethe-Institut and the tax shelter measure of the Belgian Federal Government via Cronos Invest
The residency in Orléans is supported by Culture Moves Europe, a project funded by the European Union and Goethe-Institut

Damaged Goods is supported by the Flemish Government and Flemish Community Commission. Meg Stuart/Damaged Goods is artist-in-residence at Kunstencentrum VIERNULVIER.

DANCE ON is a project by Bureau Ritter gUG, funded by the German Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media, the Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion of the State of Berlin and co-funded by the Creative Europe programme of the European Union as part of DANCE ON, PASS ON, DREAM ON.