Meg Stuart | Workshop “Weather of Touch”

Weather of Touch is a shared practice where touch, movement, and attention shift like weather. The group becomes a collective body moving through temporary, imagined terrains—worlds that form, dissolve, and reorganize as we inhabit them.

Touch appears in many forms: physical contact and proximity, as well as rhythm, pressure, resonance, and subtle energetic exchange. Emotional states move through the space like weather systems—gathering, intensifying, dispersing, clearing—without being fixed into meaning.

The work moves through thresholds between closeness and distance, stillness and motion, form and formlessness. Group scores and sensorial exercises create conditions for responsiveness, collective alignment, and contrast. The range is wide: subtle to wild, playful and charged. Care is held through listening, pacing, and shared awareness, allowing sensitivity and intensity to coexist as conditions change.

This workshop invites professional improvisers to explore collective movement as a living terrain. As we dance together, new forms emerge, reshaping the landscape we move through and opening pathways for new ways of being together in motion.

Meg Stuart (US/BE/DE) is a choreographer, director and dancer who lives and works in Berlin and Brussels. With her company, Damaged Goods, founded in 1994, she has created over thirty productions, ranging from solos and duets to large-scale choreographies, videoworks, site-specific creations and improvisation projects. Recent creations include steal you for a moment (2024) and GLITCH WITCH (2024). Stuart’s work moves freely between the genres of dance, theater and visual arts, driven by an ongoing dialogue with artists from different disciplines. Through fictions and shifting narrative layers, she explores dance as a source of healing and a way to transform the social fabric. Improvisation is an important part of Stuart’s practice, as a strategy to move from physical and emotional states or the memory of them. She passes down her knowledge through regular workshops and master classes in- and outside of the studio. In 2025, with the support of Forum Dança, she organised a first edition of the ‘Mystery School’, an unconventional and experimental studies programme for performing artists. Stuart has directed and choreographed a range of video works, including a four-part series for Haus der Kulturen der Welt’s CC:World project, Shelf Life for Steirischer Herbst ’23, and, most recently Sulphur Edges — a 60-minute film created in collaboration with participants of the Mystery School for the Walk&Talk Biennale (São Miguel, Azores). These works explore the presence of the body in relation to space and landscape, reflecting her ongoing interest in the conditions and potentials of embodiment. Stuart has received several awards in recognition of her oeuvre, among which the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at the Biennale di Venezia in 2018 and a 2023 Guggenheim Fellowship in choreography.

More about Meg Stuart: www.damagedgoods.be

TOWARDS:2026 — cycle of intensive workshops

TOWARDS:2025 is a cycle of intensive workshops organised by Vitlycke – Centre for Performing Arts (Sweden) that includes physical praxis, evening lectures, video screenings, and live performances. It’s the metaphor of aiming at something – to expose and engage ourselves in physical investigations and conceptual challenges that can foster creativity and encourage discoveries. TOWARDS:2025 see pedagogy as a continuous intellectual provocation, an occasion for inspiration through paradoxes and awakenings and as a desire to overturn common sense and question what we have learned.

Over the years, TOWARDS: has welcomed an outstanding list of artists and choreographer, including Julyen Hamilton, German Jauregui Allu, Judith Sanchez Ruiz, Frey Faust, Laura Aris, David Zambrano, Francesco Scavetta, and Xavier le Roy & Scarlet Yu. This year TOWARDS: program starts with workshops led by two renowned voices of contemporary dance field: choreographer Meg Stuart (US/BE/DE) and dramaturg Guy Cools (CA/BE). The workshop cycle will continue in the Autumn with more workshops.