Meg Stuart

Meg Stuart (born 1965 in New Orleans) is an American Choreographer and Dancer based in Brussels, Belgium. She is one of the key figures in the European and International contemporary dance world Goldberg, RoseLee (2000). "ArtForum". ArtForum. http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0268/is_10_38/ai_65071347/print?tag=artBody;col1. 

Biography

From 1983 to 1986 Stuart studied at the New York University where she received a BFA in dance with a main focus on release technique and contact improvisation. From 1986 to 1992 she was a member of the Randy Warshaw Dance Company. In 1991, Stuart presented her first full evening length choreography Disfigure Study at the Klapstuk Festival in Leuven, Belgium. Within the following two years, the production was shown 42 times in 17 cities (Berlin, Paris, London, Madrid, Lissabon, New York, among others). The Klapstuk Festival offered Stuart a residency in Leuven.

In 1994 she moved to Europe completely and founded her own company Damaged Goods. in Brussels the same year. From 1997 Stuart/Damaged Goods was an artist-in-residence at the Kaaitheater Brussels. Between 2001 and 2004 she had a residency at the Schauspielhaus Zürich invited by Christoph Marthaler. Since 2002 Volksbühne Berlin and Damaged Goods are collaborating.

During her career Meg Stuart collaborated with Hahn Rowe, Davis Freeman and Forced Entertainment ^[1] among others.

Selected Works

• Disfigure Study, 1991
• No Longer Readymade, 1993
• Swallow my yellow smile, 1994
• No One is Watching, 1995
• Inside Skin #1 They live in Our Breath, 1996
• Splayed Mind Out, 1997
• Remote, 1997
• appetite, 1999
• Comeback, 1999
• Snapshots, 1999
• Highway 101, 2000/2001
• Alibi, 2001
• Henry IV, 2002
• Visitors Only, 2003
• Das goldene Zeitalter, 2003
• Forgeries, Love and other Matters, 2004
• Der Marterphahl, 2005
• REPLACEMENT, 2006
• It's not funny!, 2006
• Blessed, 2007
• Maybe Forever, 2007
• All Together Now, 2008
• Die Massnahme/Mauser, 2008
• Do Animals Cry, 2009

Awards

• 2000: Culture Prize K.U.Leuven
• 2006: German theatre prize "Der Faust" for REPLACEMENT
• 2008: New York Dance and Performance Award / Bessie Award

Bibliography

• Meg Stuart: Are we here yet?, Les Presses du réel, 2010, ISBN 978-2-84066-354-6

Further reading

• http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/29/arts/dance/29beno.html?_r=1&scp=3&sq=meg%20stuart&st=cse&oref=slogin
• http://www.bombsite.com/issues/104/articles/3142

External links

• http://www.damagedgoods.be/
• http://www.goethe.de/kue/tut/cho/cho/sz/stu/enindex.htm
• http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meg_Stuart

References

1. ^ Who is Like Meg Stuart - ThisIsLike.Com

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