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GLITCH WITCH

Meg Stuart/Damaged Goods & Dance On Ensemble

Choreography: Meg Stuart
With: Omagbitse Omagbemi, Meg Stuart, Mieko Suzuki

Live music: Mieko Suzuki
Scenography: Nadia Lauro
Light design: Nico de Rooij
Costume design: Claudia Hill
Dramaturgy: Igor Dobričić
Artistic assistants: Luna Luz Sanchez, Valentin Braun
Technical coordinator: Tom De Langhe

Production: Damaged Goods and DANCE ON / Bureau Ritter
Coproduction: Théâtre Garonne – scène européenne Toulouse, Centre Chorégraphique National d’Orléans – Direction Maud Le Pladec, HAU Hebbel am Ufer Berlin, Tanzquartier Wien, PACT Zollverein Essen, Kunstencentrum VIERNULVIER Ghent, Perpodium

Choreographer Meg Stuart and Dance On Ensemble dancer Omagbitse Omagbemi create a trio with composer and musician Mieko Suzuki in the framework of the Dance On series ‘Encounters’, where choreographers become visible on stage in a meeting with a member of the ensemble. This new work touches on fundamental questions: how do we share a creative process? What is the balance between a choreographic desire and freedom of interpretation? How can we transgress and reinvent our roles?

Meg Stuart has always considered her own body as a site, a testing ground. By dancing in her own pieces, she intuitively deconstructs the choreographic principles that she tries to articulate. Omagbitse brings another perspective to this search. Beneath the raw physicality that characterizes Stuart’s style, she recognizes first and foremost a quiet care and attention to detail. Playing with these seemingly opposing traits, the three collaborators look for a common ground and a shared language. Cumulating, morphing, becoming, they move towards a group portrait that remains just out of reach.

Premiere: 16, 17, 18 October 2024, Théâtre Garonne, Toulouse (FR)
On tour: from December 2024

With the support of Goethe-Institut and the tax shelter measure of the Belgian Federal Government via Cronos Invest.

The residency in Orléans is supported by Culture Moves Europe, a project funded by the European Union and Goethe-Institut.

Damaged Goods is supported by the Flemish Government and Flemish Community Commission. Meg Stuart/Damaged Goods is artist-in-residence at Kunstencentrum
VIERNULVIER (Ghent).

Ginevra Panzetti / Enrico Ticconi

Ginevra Panzetti and Enrico Ticconi, based in Berlin and Torino, have been working as a duo since 2008. Their artistic research interlaces dance, performance and visual art. Deepening themes related to the historical union between communication, violence and power, they draw on ancient imaginaries, creating hybrid figures or images between history and contemporaneity.

Both graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome and attended Stoà, School for rhythmic movement and philosophy in Cesena, led by Claudia Castellucci. In 2010 they moved to Germany and delved into individual, but mutually complementary paths: Ginevra studied Media Art at the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst (HGB) in Leipzig and Enrico Dance, Context, Choreography at the Inter-University Center for Dance (HZT) in Berlin.

They gained international recognition with their choreographic work HARLEKING (2018) that, among some of the most important international festivals, has been presented at the European platform AEROWAVES Twenty 19, the New Italian Dance (NID) Platform and by Tanzplatform Deutschland 2020.

In 2019 they won the 13th Arte Laguna Prize for the site-specific performance JARDIN / ARSENALE, they received the Danza&Danza prize as emerging choreographers and were nominated “Promising Talent of the Year” by the Jahrbuch Tanz.

Their last artistic research investigates the symbolic power of the flag and took shape through the realization of a dypthic composed by two choreographic works (AeReA / 2019 and ARA! ARA! / 2021) and was concluded with a filmic work (Silver Veiled / 2021). With AeReA they won the first edition of Premio Hermès Danza Triennale Milano, while ARA! ARA! has been supported by the Fondation d’entreprise Hermès within the framework of the New Settings Program. The filmic work Silver Veiled was commissioned by the Dublin Dance Festival and will be presented at the Torino Film Festival.

In 2021 they have been commissioned by the Berlin based Dance On Ensemble to realize their last group piece MARMO, a choreographic response to the work of Lucinda Childs. INSEL their latest choreographic work for 4 performers premiered in 2023 at Tanz Im August Festival in Berlin.

www.panzettiticconi.com