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Performing art
Sand table (Highway 101)

Choregraphic collaboration, Magali Desbazeille and Meg Stuart / Damaged Goods, 2000 http://www.damagedgoods.be

" About memories of the future and the future of memories, about manipulation and the memories of the body, and how to give substance to an image "

Presentation of Highway 101

Highway 101 is a choregraphic performance by Meg Stuart/Damaged Goods in collaboration with the stage directeur Stephan Pucher, the video artist Jorge Leon and two artists from Le Fresnoy (Tourcoing), Magali Desbazeille and Mathieu Kavirchine.

Highway 101 moves through the corners, hallways, and the space of a building. The relationship between private and public, past and present is disturbed by the use of suveillance cameras, and a series of live and pre-recorded actions

Stills from Highway 101

Stills from the sand table

L'sand table performance


Extrait de la performance "table de sable".

A video image is projected on a table covered with sand. The projected image becomes a material image, thick and palpable. The image presents dancers lying on the wooden floor of the same place. The filmed dancers were there at a previous moment. During the performance, the live dancers manipulate their images and bodies.
There is interaction between the filmed dancer and the live dancer. The filmed one reacts to the manipulations. The sand-covered table is made of transparent glass. When a live dancer takes the sand away, a part of the image disappears through the glass and seems to fall on the floor.

Le danseur réel glisse sa main sous la jupe de la danseuse filmée qui réagit et tente de s'en débarrasser.

Producers and partners :

Damaged Goods (Brussels) / Co-production Kaaitheater / Bruxelles/Brussel 2000 (Brussels), Wiener Festwochen / tanz2000.at (Vienna), Centre Georges Pompidou / Festival d’Automne (Paris), Rotterdamse Schouwburg / Rotterdam 2001 / TENT. (Rotterdam), Schauspielhaus Zurich (Zurich).

Highway 101 was made possible thanks to the support of the Arts Administration of the Ministry of the Flemish Community and with the co-operation of the Flemish Community Commission of the Brussels Capital Region, the American Center Foundation (Paris), the Bohen Foundation (Paris), l'AFAA (Paris) & the program Culture 2000 of the European Community.