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Meg Stuart's Alibi 2001 / 1' Director: Maarten Vanden Abeele Choreographer: Meg Stuart Music by: Paul Lemp, Peleton Performers: damaged goods Production: damaged goods Belgium Meg Stuart developed her first choreographies in New York in the eighties. In 1991, she made an impact on the European dance scene with her first piece, Disfigure Study. Around 1994, she started a series of collaborations with visual artists along with her Brussels-based company, Damaged Goods. After taking the site-specific project Highway 101 to various locations for a year, Meg Stuart and Damaged Goods returned to the theatre for their next project, ALIBI, premiered in November 2001 at Schauspielhaus in Zurich, Switzerland, where Meg Stuart and Damaged Goods are artists in residence. The cast, which includes actors as well as dancers, work together with scenographer Anna Viebrock (Schauspielhaus Zurich), video artist Chris Kondek (Wooster Group, Robert Wilson), composer Paul Lemp, and writer / director Tim Etchells (Forced Entertainment), who provides text material. Meg Stuart creates a theatrical environment in which physical and virtual presence are juxtaposed. In ALIBI, the desire for the real clashes with a reality that has become a spectacle. Photographer Maarten Vanden Abeele was commissioned by Damaged Goods to make the digital film Meg Stuart's Alibi , in which he recreates ALIBI into α compact visual reflection about dance, word, image, and movement. [ back to the list ]