Meg Stuart / Damaged Goods

In CASCADE, Meg Stuart and seven dancers look for ways to resist the arrow of time. Meeting in structures of rhythmic complexity, they propel their bodies and imaginations into a new temporal space, envisioning a new Earth and rebalancing inevitable outcomes.
In a game of refusal and care, disruption becomes a driving force: rushes and falls succeed one another, bodies lose their bearings, principles are repeated, interrupted and transformed. Hovering at the edge of uncertainty, the dancers wonder what kind of dream they need to give up in order to keep dreaming, what kind of body they need to acquire to keep going. CASCADE is a surrender to what we don’t know about the other. A free fall to the crumbling of time.


Meg Stuart 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) to large-scale choreographies such as VIOLET (2011), 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, theatre and visual arts, driven by an ongoing dialogue with artists from different disciplines. She received several awards in recognition of her oeuvre, among which the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at the Venice Biennale in 2018.