GLITCH WITCH

How do you share a creative process? Where is the tension located between what the choreographer wants and how to interpret her work? In her latest performance, choreographer Meg Stuart collaborates with dancer Omagbitse Omagbemi and composer/musician Mieko Suzuki. How can they transcend and reinvent their roles?  

The trio searches for a shared language, using the body as a testing ground. Together, they intuitively dismantle the choreographic principles that characterise Meg’s work, unearthing a quiet attention to detail beneath her raw physical language. With this apparent contradiction, the three artists build, transform and move towards an elusive group portrait.   

This performance is a coproduction of Damaged Goods and Dance On Ensemble, whose mission centers on the revaluation of older dancers and choreographers, exploring our common dance heritage.

• Meg Stuart moves freely between dance, theatre and visual art. She is a choreographer, dancer and director who shares her time between Brussels and Berlin. Her company Damaged Goods has collaborated with Kaaitheater for many years and she has brought most of her work here. Meg won the Golden Lion for 'Lifetime Achievement' at the 2018 Venice Biennale. 

• Omagbitse Omagbemi is an American dancer and received the Bessie Award for Sustained Achievement in Performance in 2012. As a dancer, she has danced in works by Joanna Kotze, Yvonne Rainer, Maria Hassabi and Deborah Hay and more She has been part of the Dance On Ensemble since 2018. 

• Mieko Suzuki is a sound artist and composer based in Berlin. In between the field recordings, her work echoes deep bass and drone sounds. She always starts from a particular look on space and people, whether it is a club in a basement or a dance performance. Mieke and Meg were last seen together at the Quay Studios in Meg's performance Celestial Sorrows. Mieko was also on the programme of Barbara Raes' project U-Loss at Performatik 2019 and played an unforgettable set at the Performatik closing party.