Meg Stuart
CASCADE
© CASCADE, Meg Stuart © Martin Argyroglo ©
© CASCADE, Meg Stuart © Martin Argyroglo ©
© CASCADE, Meg Stuart © Martin Argyroglo ©
Choreography, Meg Stuart
Created and interpreted by Pieter Ampe, Jayson Batut, Mor Demer, Davis Freeman, Márcio Kerber Canabarro, Renan Martins de Oliveira, Isabela Fernandes Santana
Stage design and lights, Philippe Quesne
Stage work, Igor Dobričić
Musical composition, Brendan Dougherty
Live music, Philipp Danzeisen and Rubén Orio/Špela Mastnak
Costumes, Aino Laberenz
Text by Tim Etchells, Damaged Goods
Staging assistant, Élodie Dauguet
Costume assistant, Patty Eggerickx
Creative assistant, Ana Rocha
Produced by Damaged Goods; Théâtre Nanterre-Amandiers; PACT Zollverein (Essen); Ruhrtriennale (Bochum)
With support from Fondation d’entreprise Hermès as part of its New Settings program
Co-produced by December Dance (Bruges); HAU Hebbel am Ufer (Berlin); théâtre Garonne – scène européenne (Toulouse); Kunstencentrum Vooruit (Ghent); Perpodium
(Antwerp); Festival d’Automne à Paris
Co-directed by Les Spectacles vivants – Centre Pompidou (Paris); Festival d’Automne à Paris
Meg Stuart and Damaged Goods are supported by the Flemish authorities and the Flemish Community Commission.
With support from the Belgian Government’s Tax Shelter
Each project by the choreographer Meg Stuart seeks to create the necessary conditions for a radical, perceptive experience. Following on from Celestial Sorrow, a bewitching work in which we are transported by different voices, CASCADE invents a transient place in time and space. Carried along by a series of domino effects, a fragile collective seeks to resist the entropy which takes over bodies and space alike.
In this piece, we witness a cascade of bodies racing against each other, tumbling all the while. With each new sequence, the bodies seem to lose their points of reference, and attempt to regain their balance. The rules governing the space begin to oscillate, and the different principles interrupt and transform themselves. In collaboration with the director and scenographer, Philippe Quesne, and the musician Brendan Dougherty, Meg Stuart’s starting point in CASCADE is an ensemble of physical principles aimed at multiplying the intensity of the onstage flow of movements. Similar to a machine spiraling out of control, the different reference points progressively go out of synch, and as a result the onstage spatial and temporal organization constantly changes. The dancers have to adapt their movements, and invent alternative circuits, thereby giving rise to new modes of entering into dialogue with each other and of moving around the stage. Subjected to extreme physical conditions, such as fatigue, repetition and pushing themselves beyond their limits, the dancers attempt to synchronize their rhythms, and to construct temporal islands in which to shelter from the chaos.
In the same place
Mathilde Monnier Territoires
In Territoires, Mathilde Monnier will be taking over the galleries of the Centre Pompidou during the course of a weekend in order to bring us a piece that deals with memory and circulation, "a collection of gestures from her work over the past thirty years". In doing so, the choreographer sets up the possibility of playing out memory in the present, from now onwards, or by means of anticipation.
Apichatpong Weerasethakul Rétrospective
Apichatpong Weerasethakul presents the complete retrospective of his films at the Centre Pompidou. It consists of his eight feature films, thirty or so short (and rare) films, various collective works, and two feature films produced by him.
Apichatpong Weerasethakul Night Particles
The Thai filmmaker Apichatpong Weerasethakul is guest at the Festival d'Automne and Centre Pompidou. His exhibition, featuring around ten video installations, transforms the former solarium into a nocturnal space inhabited by biographical and architectural reminiscences.
Apichatpong Weerasethakul A Conversation with the Sun (VR)
A Conversation with the Sun (VR), the Thai filmmaker's second foray into the realm of performance, uses virtual reality to set up the conditions for a collective dream.
Ligia Lewis Still Not Still
In Still Not Still, choreographer Ligia Lewis pursues her exploration into the silences and shadows of history. In this piece, the performers play out a score over and over again, the burlesque dimension of which makes it all the more tragic.
Forced Entertainment Signal to Noise
Over its forty years of existence, with Tim Etchells at the helm, the company has never stopped reinventing itself. And it continues to do so. Amidst an oscillating form of virtual reality, six performers find themselves deprived of their voices and their entire beings. The whole thing goes beyond all understanding... Welcome to this new world.
Sébastien Kheroufi Par les villages
Sébastien Kheroufi discovered Peter Handke's Par les villages at the onset of his artistic career. It evokes a writer's return to his native village. Amidst the twilight setting in which one universe declines in favour of another, the voices of the “offended and humiliated” break their silence.