Cascade

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In CASCADE, Meg Stuart and seven dancers search for ways to resist the arrow of time. Meeting in structures of rhythmic complexity, they propel their bodies and imaginations into a new temporal space, envisioning a new earth and rebalancing seemingly inevitable outcomes. In a game of refusal and care, disruption becomes a driving force: rushes and falls follow one another, bodies lose their bearings, and principles are repeated, interrupted, and transformed. Hovering at the edge of uncertainty, the dancers ask what kind of dream they must relinquish to keep dreaming, and what kind of body they must acquire to keep going. CASCADE is a surrender to what we do not know about the other—a free fall into the maelstrom and the crumbling of time. Scenographer and theatre maker Philippe Quesne joins Meg Stuart/Damaged Goods to create the stage design, marking their first collaboration in this capacity.