A key figure in contemporary dance, choreographer Meg Stuart and her company Damaged Goods visit Ireland for the first time to open the 2015 Dublin Dance Festival with Built to Last!

“Absurd, ironic, sombre, funny, colourful, engaging and thrilling at the same time (...) The human desire for eternity couldn’t be represented better.” Wiener Zeitung

What is it that music releases in us? Meg Stuart creates a time machine for five performers, confronting them with a tidal wave of monumental classical and contemporary music which has significantly influenced music history. Acting and reacting to works by Beethoven, Rachmaninoff, Xenakis, Schönberg, and other seminal composers, the cast heroically journeys through the history of dance – and possibly into its future.

Time and time again they enter impressive new worlds, adapting to perpetually changing situations through complex and subtle variations in their movement. Their encounters offer a glimpse into the essence of human vulnerability and desire. As we continually reinvent ourselves, is it possible for anything to be Built to Last?


Credits

Choreography: Meg Stuart
Created with and performed by: Dragana Bulut, Davis Freeman, Anja Müller, Maria F. Scaroni, Kristof Van Boven
Dramaturgy: Bart Van den Eynde, Jeroen Versteele
Music dramaturgy: Alain Franco
Sound design: Kassian Troyer
Scenography: Doris Dziersk
Costumes: Nadine Grellinger
Light: Jürgen Tulzer, Frank Laubenheimer
Video: Philipp Hochleichter

Production manager: Eline Verzelen
Assistant choreography: Ana Rocha
Assistant scenography: Anna Hentschel
Assistant costumes: Ann-Kristin Danzinger
Intern dramaturgy: Carlotta Scioldo

With special thanks to: Lena Lauzemis
For all information on Stockhausen and his work: www.karlheinzstockhausen.org

Production: Damaged Goods (Brussels) and Münchner Kammerspiele (Munich)

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