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MAYBE FOREVER - Meg Stuart & Philipp Gehmacher

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Vampires struggle with eternity and loneliness. Human beings struggle with each other and with the fact that things are not forever. Everyone struggles with something in the end, and fortunately there are songs that make us feel better about it all. MAYBE FOREVER is the collaborative piece in which choreographers Meg Stuart and Philipp Gehmacher let their artistic worlds bleed into one another. The songs of the Brussels-based singer-songwriter Niko Hafkenscheid, who joins them on stage, invites them to walz to lullabies and into promised lands. But under the velvet surface of a sweet melancholy simmer the unexpressed and the embryonic.

In a set of Janina Audick, reminiscent of concert halls, cinematic theaters, and even crematoria, Stuart and Gehmacher look like tiny figurines in a play that wavers between dreams and wishes, mourning and meeting. The album of MAYBE FOREVER flips through relational snapshots, expressive moods and declarations that speak of the impermanence of life. How do we let the lifespan of things extend beyond their predicted deadlines?

«I try to exercise loss, but that does not necessarily mean that I am able to accept it.»
(Rivane Neuenschwander)

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  • it's hypnotizing : ) I feel good watching it, but at the same time sad...it's true, so fragile we are...

    beatiful choreography :) love the simplicity of your movement, would love to c it live

  • very emotional and touching,fragile in some way. it seems like it's about you and something close to you. choreography looks like simple and expressive at the same time. very nice correlation between the misuc and the dance.

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  • It's been over a year since I saw Maybe Forever in Singapore. Every time, I come back to the music and the choreography, it moves me even more profoundly so. I hope you will come to Singapore again, soon. I would love to experience more of your work!

  • someone can tell me where find the lyrics of the song please?

  • what's the name of the song to download please? xxx

  • the most epic shit i ever saw <3

  • magnificent

  • i recalled the couples' conflicts in 'Revolutionary Road' the movie when watching this show last night in Hanoi Opera House :)x the guy does look a bit like Leo too ;) and the girl, a bit like Kate in RR, especially the dress :)x

  • this one hit me right there, and I needed it.  Very powerful - wow.

  • hermoso!! ojalá vengan a Buenos Aires :-)

  • La leche de guapo!!!

  • Beautiful, haunting.

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