MEG STUART. 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. Stuart’s work moves freely between the genres of dance, theater and visual arts, driven by an ongoing dialogue with artists from different disciplines. Through fictions and shifting narrative layers, she explores dance as a source of healing and a way to transform the social fabric. Improvisation is an important part of Stuart’s practice, as a strategy to move from physical and emotional states or the memory of them. 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.

FORUM DANÇA is a non-profit cultural association, created in 1990, promoting contemporary dance through training, research, editing, and documentation. It serves as a platform for professionals and the public, offering pedagogical projects, residencies, presentations, workshops, and classes for professionals and amateurs. Funded by the Portuguese Ministry of Culture/DGArts and Lisbon City Council, it is a founding member of REDE – Association of Structures for Contemporary Dance.

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