Meg Stuart shares a selection of her video works, offering insight into her artistic philosophy and her collaborations. The moving image is a vital extension of her choreographic thinking – her films approach the camera as a choreographic partner, tracing how bodies resonate within architectures, landscapes, and transitional spaces, and exploring thresholds between fiction and reality, intimacy and exposure, presence and disappearance.
The evening also includes a presentation of Meg’s book Let’s Not Get Used to This Place (2024) – which traces more than a decade of work through reflections, conversations, scores, and notes, revealing the thinking and processes that shape her practice – followed by a conversation with the audience.

Here you can find more info about the book:
https://www.damagedgoods.be/en/let-s-not-get-used-to-this-place

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.

www.damagedgoods.be

Image credit: Camille Blake