«Lethe» is a work dedicated to the Tagliamento river, one of the last great untamed waterways in Europe, which is threatened by industry and global warming. From 2021 to 2023, artist Sandra Man, musician Judith Hamann, and dancer Laura Siegmund conducted several expeditions to northern Italy. Immersing themselves in the region’s unique riverscape, they each formed an artistic response to the natural surroundings by their respective means – language, movement, and sound.

This work brings together their different approaches in the expansive space of Uferstudio 14 to create a space poem of choreographic landscape videos with, text spoken live by dancer Lisa Densem, and sound.

The title «Lethe» refers to the underworld river of Greek mythology that marks the boundary between existence and non-existence. Those who drink from it are said to experience a moment of intense remembering before forgetting everything.

Sandra Man (she/they) is an artist and writer. Since 2017 she has worked predominantly outdoors, focusing on the relationship between the body and the natural world. She creates live environments combining performance, texts, and videos such as «Aeon I-III» (with Moritz Majce), «Telos» (2022), «Nackte Erde» (2023). www.sandraman.com
Sandra has collaborated for many years with the dancers Lisa Densem and Laura Siegmund.
sandraman.com

«Lethe» is their first collaboration with cellist and composer Judith Hamann.
judith-hamann.com

[Source: tanzfabrik-berlin.de]

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