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Recording: 2018-11-28 , District Berlin (Video © Walter Bickmann)

Moritz Majce, Sandra Man

Choros VI

District Berlin

Production Details / Press Releases

In Choros VI the earth is a foreign planet. People come together in a space station. They enter, visit, explore the area. They move through the past, the present and the future. Times are fragile, mortality is in the future, what is yet to come is waiting in the past, the present collides with the origin. Layers of images, texts and movements reveal a myth in which geometry and nature, gait and gaze, desert and water are the recurrent motives.

Since 2016 the Choros series deals with space and choir. First, it is a group walking together and speaking, forming space around an audience. Choros IV adds a series of videos, exploring movements in image spaces – many bodies in black nothingness, body parts in white nothingness, single bodies in nature. Choros V is focusing on the spatial and corporeal relations among the six performers and between them and various grounds: grass, trampolines, sand.

From the very first Choros is work on origin: In archaic times a group met at a holy place, danced and stomped a round spot in the ground. The word “Choros” is the ancient name for this ritual assembly on the soil. It refers both to the bodies, their movements as well as the site where the participants do all of this. Choros brought forth the roundel and the choir, the dance floor, and choreography.

Choros VI is about times in which cycles considered to be unchangeable start to leave the track. Seasons, weather situations, climatic conditions are changing the earth dramatically. Right in high tech 21st century people are suddenly re-discovering nature, staring in disbelieve at burning forests, flooded coasts, deserted landscapes, as if they had landed on a foreign planet. The earth, the soil on which they believed to be home based, is slipping away under their feet. New uninhabitable and uncultivated sites emerge. What are they going to do with them?

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[Source: blog.moritzmajcesandraman.com]

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Cast & Credits

IDEA, SPACE, VIDEO, TEXT: Moritz Majce + Sandra Man
PERFORMANCE AND CHOREOGRAPHY WITH: Zoé Alibert, Tamar Grosz, Friederike Heine, Julia B. Laperrière, Sonia Noya, Laura Siegmund
STIMMEN: Sergiu Matis, Katharina Meves, Frank Willens
INSTALLATION BUILDING: Robert Grap, Olli Opitz
PRODUCTION MANAGEMENT: Katharina Wallisch
OUTSIDE EYE: Gabrielle Cram
ENGLISH TRANSLATION: Anna Galt LIGHT: Andreas Harder, Martin Pilz
VOICE RECORDING: Fernand Kenzler

A production by Moritz Majce + Sandra Man, in co-operation with WUK performing arts, funded by the Berlin Senate for Culture and Europe, Vienna Culture, Land Kärnten Kultur.
With the kind support of District Berlin and Tanzfabrik Berlin.
Communication program with the kind support of mapping dance berlin – a project by Tanzbüro Berlin.
Thanks to Joris Camelin for his inspiring workshop on voicing and spatial somatics.

District Berlin

Bessemerstraße 2-14
12103 Berlin

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Video Documentation

The video documentation is produced on behalf of the Senate Department for Culture and Europe. The purpose of this contract is to document productions in the field of contemporary dance in Berlin. The master recordings are archived by the University Library of the Berlin University of Arts. Copies of the recordings on DVD are available for viewing exclusively in the reference collections of the following archives (at media desks in these institutions):

University Library of the Berlin University of Arts
Mediathek für Tanz und Theater des Internationalen Theaterinstituts / Mime Centrum Berlin
Inter-University Centre for Dance Berlin (HZT)

Moritz Majce / Trailers and Video Documentations

Sandra Man / Trailers and Video Documentations

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