Curated by Meg StuartAuf den Tisch! (At the Table!)
| Nov ’09 |
| 6 |
| 7:30 pm |
Picture this: you enter a room and can take a seat at an enormous table, with four microphones at the ready, as if in a conference situation. From your chair you can see how the table becomes a platform for action and reflection. Or something of the kind. You see performers sing, play, dance, and talk about performance issues, fragility, and territories. Or not. Meeting and improvising at an oversized table such as this one, it is no wonder that things get out of proportion. “Auf den Tisch!” (At the Table!) is a curatorial improvisation-project by Meg Stuart. Upon her invitation and initiation, a changing cast of performers, thinkers, writers, musicians, actors, and dancers confer about their pressing issues while presenting a performance of negotiations.
American choreographer and dancer Meg Stuart’s work is fueled by her search for new forms of co-operation, presentation contexts and the ‘crossbreeding’ of theater, architecture and visual arts. Working in Brussels since 1994 with her own Brussels-based company, Damaged Goods, since 1994 she produced an impressive body of works including collaborations with artists Gary Hill (Splayed Mind Out, 1997, presented at Documenta X in Kassel), designer Bruce Mau (Remote, 1997), or directors Stephan Pucher, Christoph Marthaler, and scenographers Anna Viebrock (ALIBI (2001); Das Goldene Zeitalter (2003, Schauspielhaus Zurich); Visitors Only (2003)); and Doris Dziersk (FORGERIES, LOVE AND OTHER MATTERS (2004);BLESSED, (2007); All Together Now (2008); Do Animals Cry (2009), among many others. Her participation in “This is the Show” and the how is Many Things (1994, S.M.A.K., Ghent) launched a series of process-oriented dance installations and performances in the visual art field. In 2008 Meg Stuart’s body of work was awarded with a New York Dance and Performance Award, also known as Bessie Award.
Curated by Meg Stuart. With Trajal Harrell, Keith Hennessy, Janez Jansa, Jean-Paul Lespagnard, Jan Maertens, Yvonne Meier, Anja Müller, Vania Rovisco, Hahn Rowe, George Emilio Sanchez, Meg Stuart, and David Thomson. Presented by Performa and the Baryshnikov Arts Center. Production: Damaged Goods. Supported by the Flemish Authorities and the Flemish Community Commission and Flanders House, the new cultural forum for Flanders (Belgium) in the United States.
Nov. 6 and 7, 7:30 PM
Tickets: $20 / $16 Performa Members at www.bacnyc.org
Photo: NATO
