Meg Stuart/Damaged Goods (BE/DE/US): VIOLET

2800 HUF / Student: 2200 HUF
General Season Pass is valid
Twin Pass is valid
200% Dance Pass is valid

Warning: This show features stroboscopic effects, and as such is not recommended for pregnant women, those who suffer from epilepsy, or anyone with a pace maker.

POST-SHOW DISCUSSION
After the performance on 26 November there will be a discussion with Meg Stuart, moderated by Kinga Szemessy, a dancer and dance researcher. In English, with interpretation in Hungarian. All welcome!

WORKSHOP
Meg Stuart holds a workshop for professional dancers on 25 November 10h-13h, Trafó Studio.
 Info and application: Workshop Foundation – workshop@wsf.hu


VIOLET is a whirl-dance whose energetic currents stir the wavelengths of both dance and imagination. An ensemble of five dancers embarks on a journey traversing the stage as if it were a mental landscape.  „Brendan Dougherty, the composer, sits on stage behind a drum kit and produces a dense wall of electronic and percussive sound through which five performers ceaselessly progress, at times painstakingly, at others frenetically. The sensation is simultaneously startling, liberating and harrowing for spectators and performers alike. As usual with Stuart’s work, indifference is not an option.” (Oonagh Duckworth, The Bulletin)
 
“Violet is the last colour in the spectrum, before ultra violet light, before the unknown, before the imperceptible. I like that notion. Plus, it could be a good name for a rock band. That’s a bit how we feel, like we’re giving a hard core rock and roll concert rather than a dance performance.” (Meg Stuart)

Perhaps the most abstract piece so far in Meg Stuart’s long standing career, VIOLET bears her unique signature, an art that hones a frail ‘condition humaine’ in its intense physical emergence. It is the first time that the internationally renowned, Bessie Award winning choreographer presents her work in Hungary.



Choreography: Meg STUART
 Created with: Alexander BACZYNSKI-JENKINS, Varinia CANTO VILA, Adam LINDER, Kotomi NISHIWAKI, Roger Sala REYNER
 Performed by: Marcio KERBER CANABARRO, Varinia CANTO VILA, Renan MARTINS DE OLIVEIRA, Kotomi NISHIWAKI, Roger SALA REYNER
 Live Music: Brendan DOUGHERTY
 Dramaturgy: Myriam VAN IMSCHOOT
 Scenography: Janina AUDICK
 Light design: Jan MAERTENS
 Costumes: Nina KROSCHINSKE
 Technical Director: Oliver HOUTTEKIET
 Sound Technician: Richard KÖNIG
 Light Technician: Jan MAERTENS
 Production Manager: Eline VERZELEN
 Tour Manager: Annabel HEYSE
 Assistant Scenography: Julia KNEUSELS
 Assistant Costumes: Nina WITKIEWICZ
 Assistant Production: Mira MOSCHALLSKI
 Thanks to: Ulrike BODAMMER, Eric Andrew GREEN, Claudia HILL, Leyla POSTALCIOGLU, Anna-Luise RECKE, Annegret RIEDIGER, Jozef WOUTERS
 Production: Damaged Goods (Brussels)
 Co-production: PACT Zollverein (Essen), Festival d'Avignon (Avignon), Festival d’Automne à Paris (Paris), Les Spectacles Vivants – Centre Pompidou (Paris), La Bâtie-Festival de Genève (Geneva), Kaaitheater (Brussels)
 In Collaboration With: RADIALSYSTEM V and Uferstudios (Berlin)
 
Photo: Tine Declerck

Hauptstadtkulturfonds (Berlin)

Meg Stuart & Damaged Goods are supported by the Flemish authorities and the Flemish Community Commission.







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  • Main hall performance days: 5 pm - 10 pm
  • studio and club performance days: 5 pm - 8:30 pm
  • other days: 5pm - 8 pm
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  • Closed on Mondays.
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