Reasons to get excited about “Violet”:
Learn more about Meg Stuart / Damaged Goods here.
“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.
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.
Passing back through the heart, our next memories will refigure my bones.
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).
“Yes, you respond to the place you’re in, but you also bring your interests and needs wherever you go.”
“What are the unknown forces that move you, and what are you in contact with?”
Learn more about other shows you might enjoy this season at NYU Skirball.
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Learn more about other shows with related themes.