MEDIATHEK

Meg Stuart developed her movement language in her first full-length choreography that she created for the Klapstuk Festival in Leuven. The title, Disfigure Study, is by all means programmatic: Stuart shows disfigured body and movement studies and proposes the idea of shifts as a physical concept. The lighting cuts out limbs and sets them apart, hands are observed as though they were foreign, bodies tremble in eruptive shocks. Stuart focuses on the representation of bodies, also – and specifically – those on stage. In contrast and great distance to the integrated and virtuous body images in 1980s dance, Disfigure Study creates multiple, divided and sectioned bodies whose extremities are free to enter new connections.

/ CREDITS /

CHOREOGRAPHY: Meg Stuart

PERFORMED BY: Francisco Camacho, Carlota Lagido, Meg Stuart (1991), Florence Augendre, Fabian Galama, Meg Stuart/Christine De Smedt (1996), Simone Aughterlony, Joséphine Evrard/Sigal Zouk, Michael Rüegg (2002)

LIVE MUSIC: Hahn Rowe

LIGHT: Randy Warshaw

COSTUMES: Eva Goodman (1991), Nathalie Douxfils (2002)

COACH: remake 1996 Christine De Smedt

PRODUCTION: Klapstuk (Leuven), The Kitchen (New York), Streaks of Crimson (Brussel) (1991), Damaged Goods (1996, 2002)

SUPPORTED BY: the Luso-American Foundation (Lisbon), Arts International (New York), Centre for New Dance Development (Arnhem) (1991)

CO-PRODUCTION: remake 2002 STUK (Leuven)

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