Meg Stuart/Damaged Goods & Philipp Gehmacher/Mumbling Fish

MAYBE FOREVER

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MAYBE FOREVER explores loss, longing, the place in between dreams and wishes, mourning and meeting. Stuart and Gehmacher offer themselves as a reluctant template for the contradictions of modern love, conjuring potent images of a relationship on the verge. They are accompanied live by singer-songwriter Niko Hafkenscheid, who invites them to waltz, to hear lullabies, and enter into promised lands.

Stuart received her BFA in dance from NYU and was a member of the Randy Warhaw Dance Company for five years. On invitation from the Klapstuk Festival in Leuven in 1991, she created her first full-length piece, Disfigure Study. In 1994 Meg Stuart/Damaged Goods began a series of collaborations with visual artists, including Lawrence Malstaf, Gary Hill, and Ann Hamilton. Together with choreographer/dancer Benoît Lachambre and composer Hahn Rowe—both honored with Bessie Awards—Stuart created Forgeries, Love, and Other Matters. Over the past years Philipp Gehmacher’s choreographic works (mountains are mountains, incubator, like there's no tomorrow) have been shown at numerous festivals and theaters across Europe. He curated the series Still Moving at Tanzquartier Wien to introduce the lecture performance format of walk+talk in March 2008 and collaborated on the video installation dead reckoning with Vladimir Miller.

MAYBE FOREVER was co-produced by Kaaitheater (Brussels), Wexner Center for the Arts (Columbus, Ohio), Théâtre de la Ville (Paris), and Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz (Berlin).

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They slip away from each other's wavering embraces...they chase shadows: their own and the other's...the awareness of the finite grows. De Standaard (Brussels)