The piece develops as an encounter of three outstanding women – the choreographer Meg Stuart, the dancer Omagbitse Omagbemi, and the composer / musician Mieko Suzuki.
The stage set as “a sparklingly desolate, enigmatically burned-out landscape” were they discover and explore their own “personal histories imprinted on their bodies,” and create and ride on sparks that allows them to “glide and glitch between different possible worlds – between above and below, between the before and after of every passing moment.”
As the announcement describes, “while trying to break the spell of personal and ancestral memories that keep them apart, they search for a not-yet-existent shared language. In their quest, a pulsating progression of shimmering, mutable dances unfold. Within this series of overlapping movement patterns, the three women gradually uncover a shared (witch)craft: a resonant force of mutual transformations and a vulnerable ritual of solidarity that elevates them above their differences. Glitches emerge at the volatile points of their encounters, becoming a growing vocabulary of resistance and surrender, a collective chant that disrupts all enchantments.”
Trailer for Glitch Witch, 2025
The falling in and out of sync, the roughness of gestures, leads them to moving and sparkling moments that exceed their personal stories. It takes time and you need patience until the witch glitches appear, but to name some great moments: there is the stuttering refusal of singing in which Omagbitse Omagbemi moans life in the negative. Associations connecting to BLM and CRT leaving the onlooker with a shiver. That is how refusal translates into expression leaving the mostly european audience hopefully with a lot of thought. Similar sparks sends the intervened passage of Meg Stuarts joyful and explorative turntable meddling, which Meiko Suzuki picks up and translates into the art of disturbances – a dialogue of interferences – sparkling with glitches. A language yet to be found … one that will not be found without a lot of listening and attentive and curious looking.
