Meg Stuart

Meg Stuart's biography

MEG STUART is a choreographer, director and dancer who lives and works in Berlin and Brussels. Her work is driven by a sense for experiment and artistic cross-pollination, challenging the limits of the body and expanding our perception of reality. With her company Damaged Goods, founded in 1994, she has created over thirty productions, ranging from solos and duets to large-scale choreographies, videoworks, site-specific creations and improvisation projects. Recent creations include steal you for a moment (2024) and GLITCH WITCH (2024). Stuart’s work moves freely between the genres of dance, theater and visual arts, driven by an ongoing dialogue with artists from different disciplines. Through fictions and shifting narrative layers, she explores dance as a source of healing and a way to transform the social fabric. Improvisation is an important part of Stuart’s practice, as a strategy to move from physical and emotional states or the memory of them. She passes down her knowledge through regular workshops and master classes in- and outside of the studio. In 2025, with the support of Forum Dança, she organised a first edition of the Mystery School of Choreography, an unconventional and experimental studies programme for performing artists. Stuart has directed and choreographed a range of video works, including a four-part series for Haus der Kulturen der Welt’s CC:World project, Shelf Life for Steirischer Herbst ’23, and, most recently Sulphur Edges — a 60-minute film created in collaboration with participants of the Mystery School for the Walk&Talk Biennale (São Miguel, Azores). These works explore the presence of the body in relation to space and landscape, reflecting her ongoing interest in the conditions and potentials of embodiment. Stuart has received several awards in recognition of her oeuvre, among which the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at the Biennale di Venezia in 2018 and a 2023 Guggenheim Fellowship in choreography.