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One's work can look very different, but still have a deep connection. Our cooperation is a typical example of that. Meg starts off with the physical and mental state somebody Is in. Ihis creases movement images. Her choreography is built with that kind of images. My starting point s mere the Idea of dance ce a language of signs, that can be used to communicate, even if that procès: s very laborious. But \ se end earn other on the underlying level. We share the same idées about corpcrolity and the source of movement. And there is о ce -tain affection, we also affect each other... Philipp Gehmacher

art, heralded in the dance installation for the exhibition This is the Show and the Show is Many Things by curator Bart De Baere at the Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst [Museum of contemporary art, now SMAK] in Ghent (1994). Together with Christine De Smedt and David Hernandez, between 1996 and 1999 Meg Stuart was also involved in Crash Landing, an improvisation project for dancers, musicians, video and sound artists and designers. Crash Landing ran into five editions; Leuven, Vienna, Paris, Lisbon and Moscow. Between March 2000 and March 2001 Meg Stuart and Damaged Goods created Highway 101, in close collaboration with theatre director Stefan Rucher and video artist Jorge Leon. In conjunction with a partly varying artistic team, movement, sound and video material was developed with a view to a number of specifically chosen places. Highway 101 thus gradually evolved into a continuous self-commemorative and redefining project, focussing on memory, the relationship with the audience and the use of space. In March 2000 Meg Stuart and Damaged Goods presented a first series of showings of Highway 101 at the Kaaitheaterstudio's in Brussels. Then it was the turn of Vienna (Emballagen-hallen), Paris (Centre Georges Pompidou), Brussels again (La Raffinerie du Plan К), Rotterdam (TENT.) and Zurich (Schauspielhaus im Schiffbau). The installation sand table and the solos soft wear, private room and I'm all yours were originally part of Highway 101, but went on to lead a life of their own and since 2001 have often been presented in a programme shared with writer, director and performer Tim Etchelis (Forced Entertainment), in 2005 Meg Stuart initiated Auf den Tisch!, a new improvisation project for which she invites artists, dancers and musicians for performances and improvisations. From 1997 Meg Stuart / Damaged Goods was one of the artists-in-residence at the Kaaitheater in Brussels. From 2001 until 2004 the company took up residence at the Schauspielhaus Zürich at the invitation of Christoph Marthaler. Since the 2002-03 season Meg Stuart and Damaged Goods also collaborate with the Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz in Berlin.

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