Skip to main content
Back to search
  • Add to playlist

Breaking the circle

Numeridanse 2012

Choreographer(s) : Stuart, Meg (United States)

Present in collection(s): Numeridanse

en fr

Breaking the circle

Numeridanse 2012

Choreographer(s) : Stuart, Meg (United States)

Present in collection(s): Numeridanse

en fr

Breaking the circle

BREAKING THE CIRCLE /2012

Germany


This film is not the first film created by the founder of the company Damaged Goods. This collaboration, based on experiments with the shape of the circle and costumes, was made in collaboration with designer Claudia Hill.


Source : Festival International de Video Danse de Bourgogne 

Stuart, Meg

Meg Stuart, born in New Orleans, is an American choreographer and dancer who lives and works in Berlin and Brussels. The daughter of theatre directors, she began dancing and acting at an early age in California and regularly performed in her parents’ productions and those made by family friends. She made her first dance studies as a teenager focussing on simple movement actions. Stuart decided to move to New York in 1983 and studied dance at New York University. She continued her training at Movement Research where she explored numerous release techniques and was actively involved in the downtown New York dance scene.

Invited to perform at the Klapstuk festival in Leuven (1991), she created her first evening-length piece, « Disfigure Study ». In this choreography, Stuart approached the body as a vulnerable physical entity that can be deconstructed, distorted or displaced but still resonates and has meaning. Interested in devising her own structure through which to develop artistic projects, Stuart founded Damaged Goods in Brussels in 1994.

Damaged Goods is a flexible, open structure that facilitates the production of highly diverse projects and interdisciplinary collaborations.
As her work evolved, Stuart began to navigate the tension between dance and theatre. The use of theatrical devices, in addition to the dialogue between movement and narrative, are recurrent themes in her choreographies.

Stuart’s artistic work is analogous to a constantly shifting identity. It continues to span a wide range of scales and constantly redefines itself while searching for new presentation contexts and territories for dance.

Stuart’s choreographic work revolves around the idea of an uncertain body, one that is vulnerable and self-reflexive. Through improvisation, Stuart explores physical and emotional states or the memories of them. In the book « Are we here yet? » (2010), she reflects on her practice in a conversation with Jeroen Peeters and describes the exercises, tasks and narratives that she uses in workshops and as part of the creative process.

Alongside her work as a choreographer, Stuart regularly teaches workshops in composition and improvisation worldwide at organisations such as Forum Dança (Lisbon), Movement Research (New York), ImPulsTanz (Vienna), Ponderosa Movement & Discovery (Stolzenhagen), HZT (Berlin) and Tanzwerkstatt Europa (Munich).

Source: Meg Stuart/Damaged Goods

More information

damagedgoods.be

Breaking the circle

Artistic direction / Conception : Meg Stuart

Choreography : Meg Stuart

Our videos suggestions
01:39

Mirages — Boreal souls - teaser

Ben Aïm, Christian & François (France)

  • Add to playlist
54:07

50 Box

  • Add to playlist
48:04

Peuplé, dépeuplé

Ben Aïm, Christian & François (France)

  • Add to playlist
02:13

Peuplé, dépeuplé

Ben Aïm, Christian & François (France)

  • Add to playlist
57:18

Cribles

Huynh, Emmanuelle (France)

  • Add to playlist
46:49

Cribles/live

Huynh, Emmanuelle (France)

  • Add to playlist
02:57

The seasons

Lock, Édouard (France)

  • Add to playlist
02:35

ELEMENTEN I - Room

Van Acker, Cindy (France)

  • Add to playlist
02:51

Light Bringers

Carlson, Carolyn (Italy)

  • Add to playlist
12:10

Averse

  • Add to playlist
02:59

<< both, and >>

Maliphant, Russell (United Kingdom)

  • Add to playlist
03:00

Badke

Augustijnen, Koen (Belgium)

  • Add to playlist
07:41

Solaire

Lambert, Fabrice (France)

  • Add to playlist
01:40

Political Mother

Shechter, Hofesh (United Kingdom)

  • Add to playlist
02:53

Bruit de couloir

Dazin, Clément (France)

  • Add to playlist
55:17

LOONY / Non défini - 1998

Alexandre, Yvann (France)

  • Add to playlist
04:27

Coupé Décalé Act 1 Extract 2

Orlin, Robyn (France)

  • Add to playlist
04:06

Coupé Décalé Act 1

Orlin, Robyn (France)

  • Add to playlist
02:05

Douar [teaser]

Attou, Kader (France)

  • Add to playlist
52:21

Valse en trois temps

Ben Aïm, Christian & François (France)

  • Add to playlist
Our themas suggestions

DANCE AND DIGITAL ARTS

Exposition virtuelle

fr/en/

CHRISTIAN & FRANÇOIS BEN AÏM – VITAL MOMENTUM

Exposition virtuelle

fr/en/

Les Rencontres chorégraphiques internationales de Seine-Saint-Denis

Exposition virtuelle

fr/en/

[1930-1960]: Neoclassicism in Europe and the United States, entirely in tune with the times


Parcours

fr/en/

Do you mean Folklores?

Presentation of how choreographers are revisiting Folklore in contemporary creations.

Parcours

fr/en/

Maison de la danse

Exposition virtuelle

fr/en/

A Numeridanse Story

Exposition virtuelle

fr/en/

EIVV 2022 Dancing with the camera

Exposition virtuelle

fr/en/

Why do I dance ?

Social dances, anti-establishment, protest dances, rhythms or identities, rituals or pleasures... There are a myriad of reasons for dancing and a myriad of points of view. A webdoc to discover, enhanced with extracts from performances and accounts from amateurs... all the right reasons for dancing!

Webdoc

fr/en/

Käfig, portrait of a company

Webdoc

fr/en/

Contemporary Italian Dance : the 2000s

Panorama of contemporary dance practices in Italy during the 2000s.

Parcours

fr/en/

Hip hop / Influences

This Course introduce to what seems to be Hip Hop’s roots.

Parcours

fr/en/

Outdoor dances

Stage theater and studio are not the only places of work or performance of a choreographic piece. Sometimes dancers and choreographers dance outside.

Parcours

fr/en/

Contemporary techniques

This Parcours questions the idea that contemporary dance has multiples techniques. Different shows car reveal or give an idea about the different modes of contemporary dancer’s formations.

Parcours

fr/en/

Hip hop enters the French arts scenes

Parcours

fr/en/

Carolyn Carlson, a woman of many faces

Exposition virtuelle

fr/en/

Strange works

 Unconventional contemporary dance shows which reinvent the rapport to the stage.  

Parcours

fr/en/

Dance at the crossroad of the arts

Some shows are the meeting place of different trades. Here is a preview of some shows where the arts intersect on the stage of a choreographic piece.

Parcours

fr/en/

Modern Dance and Its American Roots [1900-1930] From Free Dance to Modern Dance

At the dawn of the 20th century, in a rapidly changing West, a new dance appeared: Modern Dance. In the United States as in Europe, modern trends emerge simultaneously and intertwine in thier development. Let's dive into the beginnings of American modern dance!  

Parcours

fr/en/

The Dance Biennale

Exposition virtuelle

fr/en/
By accessing the website, you acknowledge and accept the use of cookies to assist you in your browsing.
You can block these cookies by modifying the security parameters of your browser or by clicking onthis link.
I accept Learn more