Linger

© Aline Belfort

We enter the shell of a hotel, suspended in a state of unfinished dreaming. Its rooms are hollowed into soft illusions, reclaimed and overwritten by nature and humans alike. Bodies move through this abandoned fantasy like temporary inhabitants of someone else’s imagination. The place feels half-real, half-remembered—an architecture caught between erasure and desire, holding open the possibility that something might return, or that it never existed in the first place.

Credits

Directed by Meg Stuart
In collaboration with Ana Szopa, António Bollaño, Arash Khakpour, Emily da Silva, Guillermo Tarasewicz, Isabela Rossi, iSSiE – iSaAc, Julia Kosałka, Kaya Vieira Freeman, María Ibarretxe, Martha Kotsia, Michiru Shin, Natacha Campos, Raul Aranha, Salomé Pham-Van-Hué, Sepideh Khodarahmi, Śomi Śniegocka, Therese Bendjus, Tiago Vieira
Cinematography Aline Belfort 
2nd Camera Tom De Langhe 
Editing Aline Belfort, Meg Stuart 
Music Gasper Piano (composition: Silent Side of Noise, performed by Bram Bossier, Ben Faes, and Hannah Madeleine Kölbel)
Assistant director Ana Rocha 
Artistic advisor Nadia Lauro 
Editing advice Isabelle Pauwelyn 
Costume special thanks to Tiago Vieira, Mystery school and Damaged Goods 
Set Production Matty Zighem 
Local Production João Amado / Walk&Talk 
Production Carolina Martins / Forum Dança 
Thanks to Dora Carvalho, Jesse James, Luís P. Brum, Martin Sieweke, Ian Capillé, Violena Ampudia, Maria Ibarretxe, Doug Weiss, Arquipélago - Centro de Artes Contemporâneas, Parque Terra Nostra, Bensaude Hotels, Piscinas Municipais da Ribeira Grande and Culturgest. 

Linger was created during a residency on São Miguel Island (Azores), in the context of PACAP 8 / Mystery School of Choreography, Forum Dança. 

Co-produced by Walk&Talk Biennial and Forum Dança, with support from Damaged Goods and a 2023 Guggenheim Fellowship.