It's Our World After All
A relationship can be a desolate place on a despoiled planet
by DEBORAH JOWITT for the Village Voice

Most of us spend a lot of time waiting — for something good to arrive, for something bad. For change of some kind. As in Sartre's No Exit and Beckett's Waiting for Godot, the characters in Forgeries, Love and Other Matters, a dance theater work choreographed and performed by Meg Stuart and Benoît Lachambre, are marooned in a barren landscape. But, as it turns out, for these two and their relationship, there's hope.

published: April 28, 2006

A Journey in Identity, From the Clinical to the Feral
Julieta Cervantes for The New York Times
by JOHN ROCKWELL for the New York Times

Perhaps the bare brown hill represents a postapocalyptic landscape. The two dancers first warily regard each other, then suddenly change costumes and engage in enthusiastic if clumsy sex, then wind up in the whiter chamber as robotic scientists contemplating an alien world, then reappear in bear suits and roll, then wander around arm in arm, hand in hand.

published: April 29, 2006