January
21st “Hopeless.” @ Maison de la Culture Amiens (FR) info here
27th “Hopeless.” @ Teatro Nacional D. Maria II, Lisbon (PT) info here
 
February
24th + 25th “Extinction Room” @ Dansfabrik Nomade, Festival de Brest (FR) info here
 
March
5th “Extinction Room” @ La Pop, Paris (FR)
12th “Autobiographie des Contradictions”, work-in-progress @ PSR Heizhaus, Berlin (DE)
26th “Autobiographie des Contradictions”, work-in-progress @ Atelier du 30, rue du docteur Potain, Paris (FR)
31st “Scarbo” @ Dock 11, Berlin (DE)
 
April
1st “Scarbo” @ Dock 11, Berlin (DE)
16th + 17th “Hello to Emptiness” @ Greek National Opera, Athens (GR) info here
29th + 30th “Hello to Emptiness” @Tanzhaus Düsseldorf (DE)
 
May
26th,27th,28th,29th “Question of Belief” @ Sophiensaele Festsaal, Berlin (DE) info here
 
June
5th “Scarbo” @ Stadtheater Giessen (DE) – Special show with Gabriele Carcano
9th & 11th “Extinction Room” @ Impulse Theatre Festival NRW (DE)
 
July
16th & 18th “Hopeless” @ Impulstanz Festival, Vienna (AT) info here
24th “Scarbo” @ Kalamata Dance Festival (GR) info here
 
August
13th-16th “Unearth” @ Tanz Im August, Berlin (DE) info here
 
September
10th “Multiplex” – work-in-progress, @ La Pop, Paris (FR)
23rd-26th “Hello to Emptiness” @ SIDance, Seoul (KR)
 
October
14th & 15th “Picture a vacuum” ACC World music Festival , Gwangju (KR)
 
November
2nd-5th “Unrest” @ Tanzfabrik, Berlin (DE)
8th + 9th “Hello to Emptiness” @ Théâtre Bernadette Lafont, Nîmes (FR)
 
December
17th & 18th “Hello to Emptiness” @ LOFFT Theater Leipzig
 
 

Alma Palacios & Manon Parent
“Autobiographie des Contradictions”, photo Gyung Moo Kim

February
 
Unruhe by Sergiu Matis
@Radial System /// MOVED ONLINE
 
April
 
Question of Belief by Kareth Schaffer
@Sophiensaele /// MOVED ONLINE
 
Once to be realised an Opera after Jani Christou
@Deutsche Oper, Münich Biennale, Onassis Cultural Center Athens /// CANCELLED
 
June
 
7th + 8th OneOneOne by Ioannis Mandafounis, performed with Audrey Dionys @ Biennale de danse de Lyon, Les Subsistances (FR)
30th OneOneOne @ Bains des Paquis, Genève (CH)
 
July
 
17th Sing the Positions, with I. Mandafounis @ Musicamorfosi Festival, Milan (IT)
 
August
 
12th, 14th + 15th Extinction Room, by Sergiu Matis @ImpulsTanz Festival Vienna (AT)
 
September & October
 
29.09-3.10 Scarbo created with Ioannis Mandafounis @Pavillon ADC, Genève (CH)
12.10-16.10 Scarbo @Le Colombiers, Bagnolet (FR)
 
August, October & November
 
The End is not an option, a collective piece by and with Roni Katz, Maya Weinberg, Annegret Schalke, Xenia Taniko, Lisa and Manon Parent
@Stadtwerk Mrzn (6.08), Feld Teater (28 + 29.10) & Vierte Welt (20+21.11)
 
December
 
2nd + 3rd Scarbo @ Dock 11, Berlin (DE)
9th – 12th Hopeless. @ Tanzfabrik, Belrin (DE)
 

Scarbo, photo by Bruno Angiolini

I met Brice Catherin in 2017.
After collaboration on one of his Symphonies (Symphonie pour une femme seule), in which I authored a part called Baiser par contagion we have collaborated further in November 2020.
Three projects came out of two weeks spent together.
There will be wine (A Super8 film, fast forward documentary, and several soundtracks)
Snow Suite (A dance theater solo and a soundtrack with musical guest Moo Kim)
Things that my phone glimpsed -Solo for camera operator (A musical dance solo featuring a useless drone)
 
Here is a glimpse of There will be wine, Super8 film and more :
-starring Madalina Dan, Jean P’ark, Lauren Victoria Steel, Moo Kim, Brice Catherin and myself.
Photos by Moo Kim.
 

 

 

 
A glimpse of Snow Suite:
 

 
And another glimpse, of Things that my phone glimpsed -Solo for camera operator :
 

I got invited to participate in Cody Swanson’s project called Weekly EP.
I had to create, record and release an EP in one week, and was shortly after completion interviewed by Cody.
You can listen to it and find out more about the project on Spotify, on Instagram or on this website : https://www.weeklyep.com/

CONFIER / Margot Dorléans
Rouen, LÉtincelle
18 & 19.03.2020 POSTPONED TO 2021
https://letincelle-rouen.fr/spectacle/confier/

ONEONEONE / MANDAFOUNIS
Ecole Paul Vaillant Couturier, Bagnolet, 20.03.20, 12:00-13:30 POSTPONED TO SEPTEMBER 2020
Festival F-Lex, Genève & Annemasse, 24 & 25.04.20 POSTPONED TO 2021

SING THE POSITIONS / MANDAFOUNIS & PARENT
Bagnolet, Le Colombier
30 & 31.03.2020 CANCELED
http://www.lecolombier-langaja.com/programmation/2019-2020/sing-the-positions//

In January I interpreted of a solo which was originally composed by Ari Benjamin Meyers for and in collaboration with Ayumi Paul.
This solo is a durational piece (6 hours), which operates like a meditation. It is inspired by Ayumi’s life.
 
Performing this solo has been for me a very deep and interesting process. Of receiving the piece and trying to grasp it and its depths at first. But then, of tracing my own path with my own tools and of creating a new, personal history that could live in the wake of Ayumi’s life and experience and their prints in the score.
My experience with the body and the voice has helped finding new sculptures to this material which did not originate from me and to find new resonances to it, with it.
 
I must also thank Lisa Densem who has accompanied me along the process with somatic breath work.
 

photo :Moo Kim
 
photo : Moo Kim
 
 

photo : Ink Agop
 

photo : Ink Agop
 

 

photo : Ink Agop
 

photo : Ink Agop
 

photo : Ink Agop

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.

performances
 
March 10
Sing The Positions, Steckborn (CH)
 
April 14
Sing the Positions, Losone (CH)
 
April 18-21
Cassandra Has Turned 2, Sophiensaele Berlin (DE)
 

 
May 4-5
One One One, fête de la Danse, Sierre and Brigg (CH)
 
May 10
Sing the positions, Hellerau, Dresden (DE)
 
May 12
One One One, Livorno (IT)
 
June 22
Sing the Positions, Luzern (CH)
 
June 23-24
Sing the Positions, Genf (CH)
 
July 1-3
Sing the Positions, Athens Festival (GR)
 
July 10-15
Sing the Positions, festival de la cité, Lausanne (CH)
 
 
teaching
 
April 25-27
Profitraining Leipzig (DE)

DEPLHI KINO, Berlin, November 30th & December 1st, 20:00
 
photo: Peter Erdmann
 
trailer here
 
facebook event

photo : Gregory Batardon
 
ZURICH (Ch) October 6th-8th
http://www.tanzhaus-zuerich.ch/projekte/sing-the-positions
 
OLINDA (Br) October 29th
RECIFE (Br) November 1st
RIO (Br) November 3rd
http://panoramafestival.com/2017/sing-the-positions-de-cie-ioannis-mandafounis/
 
GENEVA (Ch) November 15th-19th
https://adc-geneve.ch/spectacle/sing-the-positions/
 
Excerpts and Interviews :