Five people stand in a staggered line, each with one arm extended, appearing to perform a contemporary dance routine against a dark background. Their expressions and gestures vary, suggesting movement and focus.

Prep School: Violet

Learn more about Meg Stuart / Damaged Goods here.

Reasons to get excited about “Violet”:

  1. We love an alum! – Meg Stuart is a Tisch graduate, making a triumphal return to NYU on the Skirball stage.
  2. We love to see performers push to the limit – in “Violet,” the abstract and kinetic choreography not only explores the limits of movement but the limits of dance and performance, bringing sculptural aspects to the stage as well.
  3. We love a cross-genre collaboration – in this case, musician Brendan Dougherty accompanies the performance with live electronics and percussion.

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  • Fri Sep 23 – Sat Sep 24, 2022

Meg Stuart/Damaged Goods: Violet

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Four people in expressive poses lay closely together on a dark stage, some shirtless, some in casual clothing, against an industrial background with visible brick and equipment.
  • Fri May 4 – Sat May 5, 2018

Meg Stuart/Damaged Goods: Until Our Hearts Stop

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FROM THE ARCHIVES

Meg Stuart/Damaged Goods were last at NYU Skirball in 2018, with Until Our Hearts Stop. Revisit this essay in letters, written by Allyson Green and André Lepecki.

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Three people perform a contemporary dance on stage; one stands with arms extended, while the others are bent forward and kneeling, all wearing casual clothes on a white floor.

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“Violet” premiered in 2012. Learn more & watch the trailer (below).

In VIOLET, Meg Stuart turns to movement as its primary motor, pairing choreography with an alchemy of the senses. Perhaps the most abstract piece so far in her long standing career, VIOLET bears Stuart’s unique signature, an art that hones a frail ‘condition humaine’ in its intense physical emergence.

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Recommended readings to get you in gear for the show.

  • Ramsay Burt, Ungoverning Dance (New York, Oxford University Press, 2017).
  • Göksu Kunak, Meg Stuart: Make the First Move (Berlin: mono.kultur, 2016).
  • André Lepecki, Singularities: Dance in the Age of Performance (London: Routledge, 2016).
  • Jeroen Peeters, Bodies As Filters (Maasmechelen: Cultural Centre Maasmechelen, 2004).
  • Meg Stuart and Jeroen Peeters, Are We There Yet? (Dijon: Presses Du Réel, 2011).

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