Production Details / Press Releases
The score of the new performance by choreographer Sergiu Matis is composed of texts written by authors from around the globe about their personal experiences with our existentially threatened environment. These reflections, commissioned for “Earth Works”, are recited, translated and interpreted by five performers. Prompted by words and sentences, images, figures, choreographic spaces and atmospheres emerge through which the performers move: The text carries them through the choreography and the dancers, in turn, carry the words through the performance space. This interdependent movement gives the texts body and voice, oscillating between grief and hope, destruction and resilience. The performers are driven to act, to discover new pathways and give hope to a society that finds itself threatened by a sixth mass extinction event.
“Earth Works” is a continuation of Sergiu Matis’ long-standing artistic exploration of the climate and biodiversity crisis and the relationship between text and choreography.
“Earth Works” will premiere at Radialsystem as part of the :LOVE: cooperation between Tanzfabrik Berlin and Radialsystem. With the initiative “Radialsystem ♥ Tanzfabrik”, the two institutions are working together to improve the labor and presentation conditions of dance professionals in Berlin.
[Source: radialsystem.de]
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Cast & Credits
Concept and choreography: Sergiu Matis
Performance: Chihiro Araki, Lisa Densem, Moo Kim, Sergiu Matis, Nicola Micallef
Text: Hana Pera Aoake, Rahima Gambo, Priya Jay, Jeanine Leane, Sergiu Matis, Harun Morrison, Leena Valkeapää, Oula A. Valkeapää
Dramaturgy: Mila Pavićević
Composition: Antye Greie-Ripatti (AGF)
Stage and lighting design: Ladislav Zajac
Costume: Chihiro Araki, Lisa Densem, Philip Ingman, Moo Kim, Sergiu Matis, Nicola Micallef
Choreographic assistance: Laurie Young
Technical management and sound: Andrea Parolin
Vocal coach: Jule Flierl
Editorial coordination: Harun Morrisson
Production: Anna Chwialkowska, Philip Ingman
Costume assistance: Henriette Zimmermann
Translation and subtitles: Calvin Lanz
Programme
Excerpts from Jeanine Leane (2018): “Kumbilor, hill in my Country”, in: Walk back over, Carlton South, Victoria: Corditebooks.
Excerpts from Rahima Gambo (2019): A Walk (video art work)
Excerpts from Harun Morrison (2022): “The Telepathic Butterfly” (unpublished poem)
A production by Sergiu Matis, funded by the Hauptstadtkulturfonds.
In co-production with Teatro Nacional Dona Maria II Lisbon as part of apap – FEMINIST FUTURES, co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union, PACT Zollverein, Radialsystem and Tanzfabrik Berlin.
With the kind support of BUDA (Kortrijk) in the frame of apap.
Radialsystem
Video Documentation
The video documentation is produced on behalf of the Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion. 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)
Sergiu Matis / Trailers and Video Documentations
- Sergiu Matis: Interview / Portrait Sergiu Matis (2019)
- Sergiu Matis: Warp Renderings (2024)
- Sergiu Matis: Blazing Worlds (2023)
- Sergiu Matis: DRANG (2022)
- Sergiu Matis: Hopeless. (2019)
- Instant Feedback / Sergiu Matis: Hopeless (2019)
- Sergiu Matis: NEVERENDINGS – Season 2: Daydreams for a Better World (2017)
- Sergiu Matis: NEVERENDINGS – Season 1: 100 Years Revolution (2017)
- Sergiu Matis: Deleted Scenes (2016)
- Sergiu Matis: Explicit Content (2015)
- Sergiu Matis: Duet (2012)
- Sergiu Matis: all of a sudden (Ausschnitt) (2011)
- Sergiu Matis: Doom Room (2010)