HOPELESS.
In the ecology between poetic language and choreography, words collide woefully with flesh.
In an unceasingly warming world, what is left of the idyllic nature described in the pastoral poems of Theocritus and Virgil? Today, we forge our own pastoral settings out of remains while mourning the losses yet to come. In the ecosystem of poetry and choreography, performers are technologically enhanced nymphs and shepherds that exorcise all possible dystopian scenarios and compete to see who can make the audience cry the loudest. Hopelessness is not a state of a paralysis, but instead a force that moves us to act.
Concept, choreography: Sergiu Matis | Performance: Martin Hansen, Sergiu Matis, Manon Parent | Text: Sergiu Matis, Mila Pavicevic, based on translations of Virgil and Theocritus | Sound design: AGF aka Antye Greie | Dramaturgy: Mila Pavicevic | Set design: Dan Lancea | Costume: Philip Ingman | Light design: Sandra Blatterer | Production management: Dag Lohde | Choreografic assistance: Orlando Rodriguez
February 8-10th 2019 @ Radialsystem, Berlin
Duration: 2,5 hours
A MATTER OF ONE’S OWN
photo Bea Rodrigues
November 28th, 30th, December 1st, 2nd @ Uferstudios, Berlin Wedding
In “A Matter of One’s Own”, three dancers remake the dance pieces that shaped their personal dance biographies and come out with a collective embodied memoir. They speak up, not as muses or tools for the choreographer but as a force. They speak up about pain and pleasure, reflecting upon the politics of the dance world, dance education, and dance making. Through personalizing these choreographies, each of the dancers is rewriting and retelling herstory. Parallels and contradictions unfold in their coexisting stories, while, in the process of coming together, an underlying alliance prevails. This work is a feminist contribution to the search for new forms of collaboration that question authorship and hierarchy – a call to change power structures in dance.
Artists/Collaborators: Lisa Densem (Co-Choreografie, Tanz), Annett Hardegen (Produktionsleitung), Roni Katz (Konzept, Choreografie, Tanz), Manon Parent (Co-Choreografie, Tanz, Sound), Annegret Schalke (Lichtdesign), Xenia Taniko (Kostüm & Setdesign), Maya Weinberg (Dramaturgie)
CONFIER
January 24th @ MuMa, Le Havre (FR)
March 11th, 12th @ Le Colombier, Bagnolet (FR)
March 16th @ CCN, Festival Pieds Nus, Le Havre (FR)
June 11th @ June Events, Ateliers de Paris (FR)
C’est la rencontre entre deux matière-corps dont le point de départ est une étreinte qui tourne sur elle-même. A l’écoute de la pulsation cardiaque et de la sensation du sang, ces deux géographies corporelles entretiennent une relation faite de glissements, de pressions, d’appuis… qui les mènent progressivement à confier leur poids et à se porter mutuellement. Les densités de corps se prolongent, se confondent, se détachent pour donner lieu à de multiples figures où la chorégraphie devient celle de l’espace entre les corps.