Meg Stuart
Meg Stuart
Moderation: Liliana Coutinho
Sulphur Edges is a choreographic encounter shaped with and through place. Created during Forum Dança’s PACAP 8 / Mystery School residency, the work unfolds across São Miguel’s thermal sites, oceanfront pools, traces of a mine, and the shell of an abandoned hotel. These places act as co-agents in a process of sensing and transmission. Guided by Meg Stuart’s live direction, the performers respond to the elemental conditions of each site. Movement arises from relation — to temperature, texture, invisible forces, and to one another. The camera moves as a choreographic partner, tracing tensions between body, place, and atmosphere. Before the film screening, a conversation with Meg Stuart, about project Mystery School will explore modes of presence, transmission, and artistic practice that resonate through the work.
13 MAY 2026
WED 19:00
Free admission*
M/12
*By pre-booking or collecting your ticket 15 minutes before the event (limited to the venue's to capacity).
On the day of the event, pre-bookings that have not been collected will be made available 15 minutes before the start of the event.
BIOGRAFIAS
Meg Stuart, born in New Orleans, is a choreographer, director and dancer who lives and works in Berlin and Brussels. Her work is driven by a sense for experiment and artistic cross-pollination, challenging the limits of the body and expanding our perception of reality. With her company Damaged Goods, founded in 1994, she has created over thirty productions, moving freely between the genres of dance, theater and visual arts.
Stuart’s oeuvre ranges from solos and duets such as Blessed (2007), Hunter (2014) and steal you for a moment (2024) to large-scale choreographies such as VIOLET (2011), Celestial Sorrow (2018) and CASCADE (2021). Throughout her career she has always explored her own body as a site, performing regularly in her own pieces and side projects. Stuart nurtures lasting connections with a diversity of artists, challenging and disrupting her own practice by creating work in dialogue with others. Meg Stuart’s work travels the international theatre circuit and has also been presented at Documenta X in Kassel (1997), at Manifesta7 in Bolzano (2008), and at PERFORMA09 and MoMa (2013) in New York. She has received several awards in recognition of her oeuvre, among which the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at the Biennale di Venezia in 2018, and a Bessie Award in 2008, as well as the Deutscher Tanzpreis (2018), the Grand Prix de la Danse de Montréal (2014) and the Konrad-Wolf-Preis, awarded by the Akademie der Kunste in 2012. She is a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2023. Meg Stuart/Damaged Goods has an on-going collaboration with Kaaitheater in Brussels and HAU Hebbel am Ufer in Berlin. In 2023-2027 she is artist in residence in Kunstencentrum VIERNULVIER in Ghent (BE).
Direction
Meg Stuart
In collaboration with
Ana Szopa, António Bollaño, Arash Khakpour, Emily da Silva, Guillermo Tarasewicz, Isabela Rossi, iSSiE – iSaAc, Julia Kosałka, Kaya Vieira Freeman, María Ibarretxe, Martha Kotsia, Michiru Shin, Natacha Campos, Raul Aranha, Salomé Pham-Van-Hué, Sepideh Khodarahmi, Śomi Śniegocka, Therese Bendjus, Tiago Vieira
Cinematography
Aline Belfort
Second camera / Drone
Tom De Langhe
Editing
Aline Belfort, Meg Stuart
Music
Gasper Piano (composição: Silent Side of Noise, interpretada por Bram Bossier, Ben Faes, e Hannah Madeleine Kölbel)
Assistant director
Ana Rocha
Artistic consultant
Nadia Lauro
Assembly advice
Isabelle Pauwelyn
Band
AMEMO (Francisco Cunha, Xavier Nascimento, José Amaral, Paulo Fonseca)
Costumes
Special thanks to Tiago Vieira, Mystery School and Damaged Goods
Set design production
Matty Zighem
Local production
João Amado / Walk&Talk
Production
Carolina Martins / Forum Dança
Acknowledgements
Dora Carvalho, Jesse James, Luís P. Brum, Martin Sieweke, Ian Capillé, Violena Ampudia, Maria Ibarretxe, Doug Weiss, Arquipélago - Centro de Artes Contemporâneas, Parque Terra Nostra, Bensaude Hotels, Piscinas Municipais da Ribeira Grande, Culturgest
Partnerships
Great Artists on Campus / Multiplex, Universidade Lusófona
Sulphur Edges was created during a residency on the island of São Miguel (Azores), in the context of PACAP 8 / Mystery School of Choreography, Forum Dança. Co-produced by Bienal Walk&Talk and Forum Dança, with the support of Damaged Goods and a 2023 Guggenheim grant.
