Violet
Damaged Goods / Meg Stuart
Marguerre-Saal
Five dancers simultaneously yet separately reveal an energetic landscape, a charged terrain full of possibilities. Their actions are manifestations of emerging phenomena, like constantly surging water: perhaps not immediately perceptible, but always active. »Violet« is a steep descent into a maelstrom, a swirl of energetic patterns and kinetic sculptures full of detail, accompanied live on stage by musician Brendan Dougherty on electronics and percussion. In »Violet«, Meg Stuart turns to movement as a primary impulse, pairing choreography with an alchemy of the senses. The piece bears bears Stuart’s unique signature, an art that conveys the frail condition of humanity through an intense physicality.
Meg Stuart is a choreographer, director and dancer who lives and works in Berlin and Brussels. With her company, Damaged Goods, which she founded in 1994, she has created a wide range of productions, moving freely between dance, theatre and visual arts. Her work is driven by a sense for experiment and artistic cross-pollination, challenging the limits of the body and expanding our perception of reality.