GLITCH WITCH

In GLITCH WITCH, choreographer Meg Stuart, dancer Omagbitse Omagbemi, and composer/musician Mieko Suzuki meet in a sparklingly desolate, enigmatically burned-out landscape. Moving within and beyond the personal histories imprinted on their bodies, they glide and glitch between different possible worlds—between above and below, between the before and after of every passing moment.

While trying to break the spell of personal and ancestral memories that keep them apart, they search for a not-yet-existent shared language. In their quest, a pulsating progression of shimmering, mutable dances unfolds. Within this series of overlapping movement patterns, the three women gradually uncover a shared (witch)craft: a resonant force of mutual transformations and a vulnerable ritual of solidarity that elevates them above their differences.

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

This performance was created as part of a collaboration between Meg Stuart/Damaged Goods  and the Berlin-based Dance On Ensemble , which works with dancers over the age of 40. Within their Encounters series, the company is launching new performances where the choreographer is visible as a dancer, engaging with a dancer from the Ensemble.

• With live music.
• Presented by STUK.

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choreography Meg Stuart with Omagbitse Omagbemi, Meg Stuart, Mieko Suzuki Live music Mieko Suzuki dramaturgy Igor Dobričić scenography Nadia Lauro light design Nico de Rooij/ Kevin Strik costume design Claudia Hill in collaboration with the performers artistic assistance Valentin Braun, Luna Luz Sanchez costume assistance Kahori Furukawa, Juliane Längin technical coordinator Tom De Langhe sound Vagelis Tsatsis light Nico de Rooij/Kevin Strik stage manager 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 (Ghent)

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

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