GLITCH WITCH

Meg Stuart / Damaged Goods & Dance On Ensemble

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 unfold. 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.

Artists/Collaborators: Meg Stuart (Choreografie), Omagbitse Omagbemi (Mit), Meg Stuart (Mit), Mieko Suzuki (Mit), Mieko Suzuki (Live-Musik), Igor Dobričić (Dramaturgie), Nadia Lauro (Bühnenbild), Nico de Rooij (Lichtdesign), Claudia Hill in Zusammenarbeit mit den Performer*innen (Kostümdesign), Valentin Braun (Künstlerische Assistenz), Luna Luz Sanchez (Künstlerische Assistenz), Kahori Furukawa (Kostümassistenz), Juliane Längin (Kostümassistenz), Tom De Langhe (Technische Koordination), Vagelis Tsatsis (Ton), Nico de Rooij (Licht), Matty Zighem (Bühnentechnik), Hélène Philippot (Produktionsleitung)

Production: Damaged Goods, DANCE ON / Bureau Ritter. Co-production: HAU Hebbel am Ufer, Théâtre Garonne – scène européenne Toulouse, Centre Chorégraphique National d’Orléans – Direction Maud Le Pladec, Tanzquartier Wien, PACT Zollverein Essen, Kunstencentrum VIERNULVIER Ghent, Perpodium. Supported by: Goethe-Institut, tax shelter measure of the Belgian Federal Government via Cronos Invest. Residency in Orléans 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 Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion 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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• Date Thursday, 30/January/2025 20:00 (2 more dates)
• Venue Hebbel am Ufer - HAU2
• Address Hallesches Ufer 32, 10963 Berlin-Kreuzberg
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