Lee Méir - crying creatures crying

In the frame of the residency at STUK, choreographer Lee Méir, together with her collaborators: Loïc Iten (stage), Eli Cohen (choreographic assistance) and Jana Sotzko (music), will work on Méir’s upcoming solo ‘crying creatures crying’, which will premiere in May 2024 in Uferstudios Berlin.

About ‘crying creatures crying’:

In a hyper nonsensical choreography, the creatures that inhabit our desires and despairs flash reflections of the world around us. In her new solo crying creatures crying choreographer Lee Méir taps into dance's imaginative and emotive magnitude, into symbolic and interpretive codes - who sees what, where and why. The audience is invited to sway between unnoticed immediacy and complete ambiguity in a reverie of kinesthetic kinship.

TEAM / CREDITS

Performance, Choreography, Costumes: Lee Méir // Sound: Jana Sotzko // Stage: Loïc Iten // Choreographic Assistance: Eli Cohen // Light & Technical Direction: Catalina Fernández // Dramaturgy, Outside Eye: Lidy Mouw // Production & Costumes: Saskia Schoenmaker // Voice Mentor: Irena Z. Tomažin

crying creatures crying is co-produced by Uferstudios (Berlin) & STUK (Leuven) with the support of Life Long Burning, co-funded by the Creative Europe programme of the European Union, and PACT Zollverein (NRW)

Funded by Fonds Darstellende Künste with funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media.

Lee Méir is a Berlin based choreographer and performer. At the core of her work lies an on-going search for how we make sense out of things, investigated by exploring the interplay between chaos and order, as well as randomness and control. Her pieces are presented internationally and vary from solos to collective formats, all grounded in her perspective of art as a nexus of ideas, people and craftsmanship. Méir is a 2019 recipient of the Pina Bausch Fellowship in cooperation with L’Ecole des Sables in Senegal. Some of her recent work includes safe&sound (2021/2023) an ensemble stage piece delving into rhythm and togetherness (HAU / Radialsystem), and by the way (2021), a participatory performance about death for young audiences (fabrik Potsdam, explore dance network). Recently, Uferstudios Berlin selected Méir to be part of the European Network Project Life Long Burning's Creative Crossroads program. As part of this project she will premiere her new solo at Uferstudios in May 2024.