(Germany, Belgium, Portugal, USA)

This guest performance is realized in partnership with and financial support of the Goethe-Institute Bulgaria, the Ministry of Culture, and the Cultural Events Calendar of the Sofia Municipality.

For the first time in three decades, Francisco Camacho and Meg Stuart reunite on stage for a duet, drawing inspiration from the mysterious Nuragic ruins of Sardinia. In the twilight of this ancient civilization, stone giants guarded the island’s shores – traces of a rich culture that slowly eroded. Going beyond the museum walls, Camacho and Stuart delve into the gaps, the absences in the record. What remains?

Visual artist Gaëtan Rusquet, sound designer Vincent Malstaf and light designer Frank Laubenheimer create a landscape that, like the Nuragic sites, might have come from the future, or even exist outside of time. In this space, Camacho and Stuart excavate emotional artifacts. They look for contrast in size and scale: minimal poses blaze with feeling, rage and force are compressed and restrained. With their voices they channel a lost language, weaving connections that span universes. Meeting through rhythm and repetition, they rewind and accelerate, encode and decipher, make and break patterns. By listening to the past, they construct an archeology of the present that does not distinguish between the mystical and the mundane.

The artistic collaboration between Francisco Camacho and Meg Stuart traces back to Stuart’s early works, notably “Disfigure Study” (1991). Their deep personal connection has grown through various projects, such as Stuart’s acclaimed solo piece “BLESSED”, which Camacho has performed since 2007.

Meg Stuart (she/her) is a choreographer, dancer and director who shares her time between Brussels and Berlin. With her company, Damaged Goods, founded in 1994, she has created over thirty productions. Stuart’s work moves freely between the genres of dance, theater and visual arts, driven by an ongoing dialogue with artists from different disciplines. In 2018 Stuart won the Golden Lion for “Lifetime Achievement” at the Venice Biennale.

Francisco Camacho (he/him) is a choreographer, dancer, and the founding member and artistic director of EIRA. He studied dance and theatre in Portugal and New York. Camacho is one of the key figures of the contemporary dance movement that emerged in Portugal in the late 1980s. He has directed 22 group pieces and 20 solos, as well as 11 co-authored works. His choreographic work earned him some of Portugal’s most prestigious awards. Recently, the National Theatre and Dance Museum in Lisbon dedicated a five-month-long exhibition to his career.

Gaëtan Rusquet lives and works in Brussels, where he studied Space Design at ENSAAMA in Paris before completing a master’s degree in scenography at ENSAV La Cambre. His practice is resolutely undisciplined, navigating between performance, scenography, dance and energy healing, exploring the subtle links between matter and consciousness. He has developed a rich collaborative practice, working as both project leader and co-creator alongside artists such as Meg Stuart, Bryan Campbell, and Lucille Calmel. Rusquet also places great importance on transmission, regularly leading workshops and laboratories in art schools across Brussels and Paris.

Ticket prices: With care and understanding of the different situations our audience members find themselves in, in 2026 Antistatic continues the “pay what you can” pricing policy for all tickets to the events in the festival programme with an entry. Each spectator can choose how much to pay for their ticket from three price categories – 11, 15 and 20 euro.