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Wednesday 23 March 2005 – deSingel, 13h30-17h00, free entrance. Organisation: Sarma & deSingel, in collaboration with Damaged Goods

Sarma and deSingel organise a discussion afternoon about FORGERIES, LOVE AND OTHER MATTERS by Damaged Goods and par b.l.eux, which is presented in deSingel from March 22 until 26. Focus of the talks is the working and collaborative processes of this performance by choreographers Meg Stuart and Benoît Lachambre and musician Hahn Rowe.

• Myriam Van Imschoot, the dramaturge for Forgeries, presents her Letters on dramaturgy.
• Michael Floyd, composer & sound designer, researcher in film sound, and sound dramaturge will use FORGERIES to present his theoretical concepts; later he enters into dialogue with Hahn Rowe.
• Film maker Jorge Leon shows his new film documentary (in progress) 'You are here / vous êtes ici' that is partially based on the extensive filming of amongst others the rehearsals of FORGERIES. Meg Stuart will speak with him about his role in the creation process.
• Critic and dramaturg Jeroen Peeters presents 'Bodies as filters', a lecture about the concepts of the body employed by Meg Stuart and Benoît Lachambre, and goes into dialogue with Lachambre.
• Meg Stuart, Benoît Lachambre and Hahn Rowe speak about the performance, the working process and the questions that were raised in the discussions.

The afternoon will be presented and moderated by Steven De Belder (Sarma).

Bios of the participants

Myriam Van Imschoot is a free lance researcher in dance, operating from Brussels. Her work knows a variety of emanations as well as affiliations (Universities of Louvain and Antwerp, Kunstwerk, etc). A former critic and writer she founded SARMA, an online platform for dance and performance criticism. In 2004 she curated the three week event ‘Connexive #1: Vera Mantero’ at Vooruit in Ghent and was a dramaturgical agent in Forgeries, Love and Other Matters, a collaborative piece of Meg Stuart,Benoît Lachambre and Hahn Rowe. She is currently active as a mentor at PARTS and preparing a publication on dance scores for the magazine Multitudes, in collaboration with the visual artist Ludovic Burel.

Brussels-based musician, producer, sound designer Michael Floyd began a polyfacetic career in music and sound as an apprentice to master producer/remixer Mark Saunders in New York. He started composing music-and-sound scores for contemporary dance in 1999, and went on to work with a number of downtown New York choreographers including John Jasperse. He has since received commissions from national theaters in France and Greece. His remix credits include David Byrne, Femi Kuti, the Cure, and Sean Paul. He is also one half of Transdub Massiv, a new-school dub project soon to be released through Nocturne courtesy of Mystic Urchin Music.

Jorge Leon studied film in Brussels (INSAS) and works as photographer and videomaker, with a.o. Eric Pauwels, Wim Vandekeybus, Thierry De Mey, Xavier Lukomski, Olga de Soto, Ana Torfs, Meg Stuart, Benoit Lachambre,Loredana Bianconi… His photographic works have been exhibited in Belgium and abroad and were published in different newspapers and magazines (Le Soir, De Morgen, New York Times, Papel Alpha, Sunday Telegraph, Vogue …). In 2002 he created the film "De sable et de Ciment/ Lettre à Élias". He's currently working on a feature film documentary "Vous Êtes Ici".

The American composer and multi-instrumentalist Hahn Rowe already moves more than twenty years between rock, electronic music, improvisation and new music. He worked together with a.o. Hugo Largo, David Byrne, Moby, Swans, Michael Stipe, … and also composed music for films like Clean, Shaven by Lodge Kerrigan, Spring Forward by Tom Gilroy and Married in America by Michael Apted. Hahn Rowe created the music of Disfigure Study (1991), No Longer Readymade (1993) and Swallow My Yellow Smile (1994), collaborated to four editions of Crash Landing and composed and performs the music live of FORGERIES, LOVE AND OTHER MATTERS.

Jeroen Peeters was trained in art history and philosophy and is currently working as art critic and dramaturg in Brussels and Berlin. He reviews dance for the Flemish daily De Morgen and is editor of Sarma.be, on line platform for dance and performance criticism. At the moment he is artistic collaborator of Meg Stuart/Damaged Goods and Paul Deschanel Movement Research Group.

Benoît Lachambre works as a choreographer and dancer since the early eighties. He founded his own company par b.l.eux in 1996 in Montreal. His choreographic work includes a.o. Confort et Complaisance (2000), Reverse me not … How about now (2002) and 100 Rencontres (2003). In 2004 he invited Meg Stuart and musician Hahn Rowe to participate to Not to Know, an improvisation project he initiated together with Andrew Harwood. Benoît Lachambre worked together with Meg Stuart before: as a performer in No Longer Readymade (1993), as her assistant in Swallow My Yellow Smile (1994) and as a guest in Crash Landing@Wien (1997). He also worked with other choreOgrpahers such as Lynda gaudreau and Boris Charmatz.

Choreographer and dancer Meg Stuart developed her first choreographies in New York in the eighties. On the invitation of Klapstuk 91 she created her first evening-length piece Disfigure Study. Around 1994 she started, together with her Brussels based company Damaged Goods, a series of collaborations with visual artists o.a. Lawrence Malstaf, Bruce Mau, Gary Hill and Ann Hamilton. During the year 2000 until the spring of 2001, Meg Stuart and Damaged Goods created, in close collaboration with director Stefan Pucher and video artist Jorge Leon, the location project Highway 101. From 2001 until 2004 Meg Stuart and Damaged Goods were ‘artists in residence’ at Schauspielhaus Zürich, where Alibi , Visitors Only and FORGERIES, LOVE AND OTHER MATTERS were created. From 2003 on the company also started a partnership with Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz.