Meg Stuart / Damaged Goods & Münchner Kammerspiele

How close can we get to one another? Meg Stuart has been dealing with this question now for over two decades. “UNTIL OUR HEARTS STOP” is also focused on the search for intimacy, that fleeting form of togetherness that provides such a thrill while it lasts. Six performers constitute a temporary collective which has to cooperate in a challenging and playful way and follow an insane set of rules; indulging in yoga exercises or acrobatics, performing magic tricks and rituals, staging battles and experimenting with skin-on-skin contact beyond the usual inhibitions. It is not so much the themes or the sequence of absurd, tender, aggressive or ecstatic scenes which unites “UNTIL OUR HEARTS STOP” as a performance: it is more the rhythm – the ebb and flow, acceleration and stasis – that creates a collective space of desire and illusion. The space is initiated and amplified by the vortex-like, unbridled sound of the jazz trio Samuel Halscheidt (bass), Marc Lohr (drums) and Stefan Rusconi (piano/trumpet). “UNTIL OUR HEARTS STOP” is a performative experimental set-up in which the experience of physical limits can explode mental barriers: naked, two people are separated by their skin, but through play, they become one experiential, sensuous organism.