| Meg Stuart (US/BE) |
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| Choreographer and dancer Meg Stuart (US/BE) was born in New Orleans in 1965. She moved to New York in 1983 to study dance at the New York University, where she received a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree in Dance. From 1986 till 1992 Stuart was member of the Randy Warshaw Dance Company, where she was also assistant to the choreographer. She developed her first choreographies in New York in the eighties and, on the invitation of Klapstuk 91, created her first evening-length piece, Disfigure Study in 1991. Around 1994 she started, together with her Brussels based company Damaged Goods, a series of collaborations with visual artists including Lawrence Malstaf, Bruce Mau, Gary Hill and Ann Hamilton. During the year 2000 until the spring of 2001, Meg Stuart and Damaged Goods created, in close collaboration with director Stefan Pucher and video artist Jorge Leon, the location project Highway 101. From 2001 until 2004 Meg Stuart and Damaged Goods were ‘artists in residence’ at Schauspielhaus Zürich, where Alibi , Visitors Only and FORGERIES, LOVE AND OTHER MATTERS were created. From 2003 on the company also started a partnership with Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz. In 2006 Meg Stuart was awarded the German Theatre Prize DER FAUST for her work REPLACEMENT. She last appeared at PACT Zollverein in MAYBE FOREVER with Philipp Gehmacher in 2008.
2010: PRIVATE ROOM / STARFUCKER / DOWNTIME / I’M ALL YOURS / SOFT WEAR
2009: Do Animals Cry
2008: Maybe forever
2007: Blessed
2005: sketches / notebook Informal Showing
2005: Residency
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