Since the early nineties, Meg Stuart, born 1965 in New Orleans, USA, and her Brussels-based dance company Damaged Goods, have produced a remarkable and audacious body of choreographic work. Ten years ago, Damaged Goods published Are we here yet?(edited by Jeroen Peeters, 256 pages, first Ed. 2010, second Ed. 2014), which spans the first twenty years of Meg Stuart’s career. Now we present a follow-up book: Let’s Not Get Used to This Place. In this publication, the choreographer dives into more than a decade of works through reflections, interviews, scores and exercises, and notes on the practice of creating, performing, teaching and living dance. These are mixed with reports, essays and poetry by close collaborators and intimate strangers, photos, performance texts and archive material. The book’s title, gleaned from one of Stuart’s recent video works, ties together these multifaceted sources in a desire to discard tried and tested strategies, explore new contexts, and transgress the edge of what we (do not) know.

Let’s Not Get Used to This Place gives a sense of the plentitude of motions, inspirations and personalities that energise Meg Stuart’s creative cosmos. It offers a personal and intimate look behind the scenes of the creative process, while also exploring the world around it. As a journey through her more recent career, an inspiring manual and a work of art in its own right, this book has a wide appeal to an international base of artists, students and peers, and to anyone who is interested in performance.