{"id":34425,"date":"2025-08-14T11:36:52","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T10:36:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.forumdanca.pt\/?p=34425"},"modified":"2025-08-21T12:31:21","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T11:31:21","slug":"book-meg-stuart-damaged-goods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.forumdanca.pt\/en\/book-meg-stuart-damaged-goods\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Meg Stuart \/ Damaged Goods"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Let\u2019s Not Get Used To This Place<\/h3>\n

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Meg Stuart \/ Damaged Goods 2008-2023<\/h4>\n

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[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”60px”][vc_column_text css=””]Let’s Not Get Used To This Place<\/em> <\/strong>is a publication dedicated to the work of choreographer Meg Stuart<\/strong> and the company Damaged Goods<\/strong>, marking over a decade of choreographic creation.<\/p>\n

Edited by Julie De Meester, Astrid Kaminski, and Jeroen Versteele<\/strong>, Let’s Not Get Used To This Place brings together an extensive collection of materials – reflections, interviews, scores, process notes, essays, poetry, photographs, and performance texts – that span Stuart’s work between 2008 and 2023.<\/p>\n

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As a\u00a0memorial gesture for PACAP 8, a program directed by Meg Stuart in 2025, Forum Dan\u00e7a is offering a limited number of copies for sale.<\/p>\n

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Informations<\/h3>\n

[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”20px”][vc_accordion active_tab=”false” collapsible=”yes” style=”boxed_accordion”][vc_accordion_tab title=”About the book” title_color=”#000000″ background_color=”#eeeeee”][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1755517543535{padding-right: 25px !important;padding-left: 25px !important;}”]Let\u2019s Not Get Used to This Place \/\/ Meg Stuart\/Damaged Goods<\/b><\/p>\n

Since the early nineties, Meg Stuart, born 1965 in New Orleans, USA, and her Brussels-based dance company Damaged Goods, have produced a remarkable and audacious body of choreographic work. Ten years ago, Damaged Goods published Are we here yet? (ed. Jeroen Peeters), which spans the first twenty years of Meg Stuart\u2019s career.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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In <\/span>Let\u2019s Not Get Used to This Place<\/i><\/b>, the choreographer dives into more than a decade of works through reflections, interviews, scores and exercises, and notes on the practice of creating, performing, teaching and living dance. These are mixed with reports, essays and poetry by close collaborators and intimate strangers, photos, performance texts and archive material. The book\u2019s title, gleaned from one of Stuart\u2019s recent video works, ties together these multifaceted sources in a desire to discard tried and tested strategies, explore new contexts, and transgress the edge of what we (do not) know.<\/span><\/p>\n

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This publication also coincide with the thirtieth anniversary of Damaged Goods: a perfect way to celebrate this remarkable legacy.<\/span><\/i>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_accordion_tab][vc_accordion_tab title=”Excerpt” title_color=”#000000″ background_color=”#eeeeee”][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1755517154993{padding-right: 25px !important;padding-left: 25px !important;}”]<\/p>\n

\u2018For years, I have been calling out the word \u2018change\u2019 to dancers, so that they move from one improvised state to another without attachment or preparation. The more I propose this task, the more I discover that what remains is more significant than the change itself. The change reinforces not only the quality of letting go, but also the commitment of the attention we give to the state or physical idea we let go of. Abrupt changes mark where we are, what we have to leave, and what it takes to let go and open up again.<\/p>\n

In another exercise, we hold a person tightly, and keep holding onto the trace of this physical contact after we let go of them; then we move with the trace and shape of this person. You can also do this with objects. Every lived experience leaves a mark. By tracing the shape of this mark, we take the experience with us to the next place. I believe that time is not one singular flow. You can always retrace and reframe. Past events are not fixed; they are a process that is still unfolding. You can write letters to people who have died, for example. It shifts your relationship with them. I have done this.\u2019<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Meg Stuart[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_accordion_tab][vc_accordion_tab title=”+ Info” title_color=”#000000″ background_color=”#eeeeee”][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1755517173089{padding-right: 25px !important;padding-left: 25px !important;}”]Edited by:<\/strong> Astrid Kaminski, Jeroen Versteele, Julie De Meester<\/p>\n

Graphic design:<\/strong> Sean Yendrys with Bj\u00f6rn Giesecke<\/p>\n

Contributions:<\/strong> Jean-Marc Adolphe, M\u00e1rcio Kerber Canabarro, Tim Etchells, Thomas F. DeFrantz, Philipp Gehmacher, Ezra Green, Astrid Kaminski, Andr\u00e9 Lepecki and Eleonora Fabiano, Jeroen Peeters, Gerald Siegmund, Claire Vivianne Sobottke, Maria F. Scaroni, Meg Stuart, Jeroen Versteele, Jozef Wouters and many others.<\/p>\n

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Distributed by: les presses du r\u00e9el<\/strong><\/p>\n

Language:<\/strong> English 528p., 16.5 x 23.5 cm<\/p>\n

ISBN:<\/strong> 9782960320718<\/p>\n

Price:<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u20ac45 regular price<\/p>\n

\u20ac38 discount for former students of long-term courses at Forum Dan\u00e7a<\/p>\n

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More information and pre-orders at forumdan\u00e7a@forumdan\u00e7a.pt[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_accordion_tab][\/vc_accordion][vc_empty_space height=”80px”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row row_type=”row” use_row_as_full_screen_section=”no” type=”full_width” text_align=”left” background_animation=”none” css_animation=””][vc_column][vc_column_text css=””]<\/p>\n

Bio<\/h3>\n

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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 to group pieces, video works, site-specific creations and improvisation projects.<\/p>\n

Stuart\u2019s work moves freely between the genres of dance, theater and visual arts, driven by an ongoing dialogue with artists from different disciplines.<\/p>\n

Through fictions and shifting narrative layers, she explores dance as a source of healing and a way to transform the social fabric.<\/p>\n

Improvisation is an important part of Stuart\u2019s practice, as a strategy to move from physical and emotional states or the memory of them.<\/p>\n

Meg Stuart has received many awards for her work, notably the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at the Biennale di Venezia in 2018, and she was a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2023.<\/p>\n

More informations:<\/strong>\u00a0www.damagedgoods.be<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Activities PACAP 8<\/h3>\n

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Lectures PACAP 8 \/ Mystery School<\/h3>\n

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