Alex Baczynski-Jenkins, Dougherty Brendan & Meg Stuart
Danseur et chorégraphe, Alex Baczynski-Jenkins a fait partie de la première promotion d'étudiants du Bachelor of Arts « danse, contexte, chorégraphie » du HZT Berlin où Boris Charmatz a enseigné. Interprète pour Rosalind Crisp, Marlene Monteiro Freitas et surtout Meg Stuart dont il intègre la compagnie, Damaged Goods, il sera sur le plateau de VIOLET cette année au Festival. Il a signé son premier solo en 2010, Translating the Agony in the Garden.
Designer de la matière sonore, le musicien et compositeur Brendan Dougherty, navigue entre la scène alternative électroacoustique
berlinoise et l'industrie du jeu vidéo, en passant par de régulières collaborations pour les projets chorégraphiques de Jeremy Wade et Meg Stuart, dont VIOLET présenté cette année au Festival.
Born in New Orleans (USA), Meg Stuart studied dance in New York. Her first evening-length production, Disfigure Study (1991), launched her choreographic career in Europe and the USA. The "disfiguration" in question - inspired by Francis Bacon's paintings - is more than just a casual statement, it shapes a genuine behaviour pattern that will constantly question the body and its place in society. Having settled in Brussels, dancer, performer and choreographer Meg Stuart created her company, Damaged Goods, in 1994. The term "goods" relate to production lines of a socio-economic system that dooms mankind to reification; the dancing body, in its very resistance, would be particularly revealing. As for "damaged," it refers to social relationships and their rigid codes that debase surges of love (Forgeries, Love and Other Matters, 2004), pervade the entertainment industry (It's Not Funny, 2006), make "natural" disasters worse (Blessed, 2007) and poison the family (Do Animals Cry, 2009). It is every time through the disfiguration experienced by distorted bodies, plunged into unstable states, unexpected associations, bordered and haunted by destruction, that Meg Stuart bets on beauty and a share of truth. At the crossroads of dance, theatre, music and visual arts, she encourages the body to open up to every possibility, going so far as to confront them to the invisible with VIOLET. At the Festival d'Avignon, Meg Stuart presented Forgeries, Love and Other Matters with Benoît Lachambre and Hahn Rowe in 2004.
JLP, May, 2011.