Meg Stuart

 Meg Stuart performing  Blanket Lady  at ZKM Karlsruhe (2012) © Pietro Pellini

Meg Stuart performing Blanket Lady at ZKM Karlsruhe (2012), © Pietro Pellini

An interview with dance and choreography artist Meg Stuart who is receiving a Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement Award during the Venice Biennale Danza 2018. By Astrid Kaminski

 BMW Tate Live 2015 – "If Tate Modern was Musée de la danse?" Olivia Hemingway ©Tate Photography

BMW Tate Live 2015 – "If Tate Modern was Musée de la danse?" Olivia Hemingway ©Tate Photography

Last weekend, dancer and choreographer Boris Charmatz hypothetically transformed Tate Modern into Musée de la danse. Our editor-at-large was harbouring some reservations about this new democratic participatory art, but found it surprisingly moving.

 Remote, 1997 Photo: Daniel Rest

Remote, 1997

Photo: Daniel Rest

For the past twenty years American dancer and choreographer Meg Stuart has brought her vivid and fractured impressions of subjectivity and narrative to the theatrical stage. Restlessly prolific, she has collaborated with numerous artists, designers, musicians and performers to evolve a singular dance language of intense emotional charge. Adam Lindner talks to her about resistance, collaboration and the importance of images.