Meg Stuart

Meg Stuart is a choreographer, director, and dancer whose experimental practice treats the body as fragmented, adaptive, and continually remade through improvisation and collaboration. Born in 1965 in New Orleans, Stuart moved to New York in 1983 to study at New York University and Movement Research, where she trained in contact improvisation and release techniques within the downtown dance scene. Her breakthrough came with *Disfigure Study* in 1991, created for Klapstuk in Leuven, which established a movement language of the fragmented, twisted, vulnerable, and adaptive body and launched her European career. In 1994, Stuart founded Damaged Goods in Brussels, from which she has created more than thirty productions spanning dance, theatre, visual art, site-responsive work, solos, and large ensembles. Her repertory includes *Blessed*, *Hunter*, *VIOLET*, *CASCADE*, and *steal you for a moment*. Stuart's work consistently explores embodied memory, micro-gesture, breath, and the body as an archive—vocabularies she has discussed in depth in recorded interviews. Her achievements have been recognized with the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement in Dance in 2018, a Bessie, Deutscher Tanzpreis, Grand Prix de la Danse de Montréal, and other honors.