Nov 6+7. All the Way Around / Meg Stuart & Doug Weiss
American choreographer Meg Stuart and her company, Damaged Goods, have spent three decades shaping the international dance scene. Now, she comes to Weld for two performances in November.
November 6 at 8pm
November 7 at 8pm
Weld
Norrtullsgatan 7
Book at: book.weld.se
In the work All the Way Around, Meg Stuart and bassist Doug Weiss embark on an intuitive journey of movement and sound. Lighting design by Emese Csornai becomes a third player, challenged by the unpredictable elements of the new space.
All the Way Around takes place in an intimate concert setting. It takes the ballad, a song of longing and defiance, and breaks it down into small but meaningful gestures. In this piece, Meg Stuart, offers a deep insight into the structures of her unique approach to movement. She plays with her emotional body, moving both with and against the nostalgia and lyricism of the ballad form, riding the waves between the almost-remembered and the unknown.
Concept: Meg Stuart and Doug Weiss
Choreography and dance: Meg Stuart
Music: Doug Weiss (bass)
Light design: Emese Csornai
Technical coordinator: Tom De Langhe
Outside eye: Mor Demer
Production: Damaged Goods
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 such as BLESSED (2007) and Hunter (2014) to large-scale choreographies such as VIOLET (2011) and CASCADE (2021), video works, site-specific creations like Projecting [Space[ (2017-2019), and improvisation projects such as City Lights (2016). 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. Meg Stuart received several awards in recognition of her oeuvre, among which the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at the Biennale di Venezia in 2018. She is a 2023 recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship.
DOUG WEISS (US/DE)
Based in Berlin and New York, acoustic bassist Doug Weiss has held it down and helped it swing for 30 years. Since 1996 he has been bassist and musical director of The Al Foster quartet. He is a member of Brian Blade’s “Lifecycles” and “Fellowship” bands, the Peter Bernstein Quartet, and the Seamus Blake group. His band “The Berlin Quartet” features Weiss as a composer, arranger, and bandleader. Weiss is currently on Faculty of the New School University and SUNY Purchase College.
EMESE CSORNAI (HU)
studied architecture at the Technical University of Budapest (2002-2004) and fine arts at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam (BA 2009). Her research in fine arts led her to lighting design, which two principles keep informing each other in her work as a practicing lighting designer, occasionally engaging in installative and fine arts projects and set design. Her main research interest is colors and the physiology of their perception. Her study in instant composition has driven her to research dynamic use of spaces.
Weld is supported by Stockholms stad, the Swedish Arts Council and Region Stockholm