Blazing Worlds

Performance by Sergiu Matis

Performance / Tanz

Sergiu Matis / Philip Ingman

© Sergiu Matis / Philip Ingman

Evgenia Chetvertkova

© Evgenia Chetvertkova

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pay as you can
10/15/20/25 Euros

Duration approx. 120 minutes

Ticket Prices

pay as you can
10/15/20/25 Euros

Duration approx. 120 minutes

Ticket Prices

pay as you can
10/15/20/25 Euros

Duration approx. 120 minutes

 

Audio description & Haptic Access Tour
Sat 10 12 2022 7 pm
Please register by telephone on +49 (0)30 288 788 588 or by e-mail to ticket@radialsystem.de.

Ticket Prices

pay as you can
10/15/20/25 Euros

Duration approx. 120 minutes

The need to imagine better worlds – not to escape reality, but to reimagine the present – courses through human history. Driven by the force of utopian thought, Berlin-based choreographer Sergiu Matis experiments in his new performance “Blazing Worlds” with imagining a possible future of which dance will continue to be a part. “Blazing Worlds” is presented as part of the collaboration :LOVE: between Tanzfabrik and Radialsystem presented in Radialsystem’s spaces. The initiative “Radialsystem ♥ Tanzfabrik” fosters cooperation between the two institutions specifically to improve the conditions of presentation by dancemakers.

Inspired by the 1666 (proto-)feminist science fiction novel “The Description of a New World, Called the Blazing-World” by Margaret Cavendish, the performance unfolds to reveal an exploration of past and present utopian desires. Sergiu Matis combines visionary feminist science fiction and climate fiction literature as well as literary works of queer utopias into a latticework of condensing, intersecting and overlapping references. Hybrid bodies composed of fictions navigate and dance through interwoven relations and ideas in search of the visionary force that animated these literary utopias.

Cast

Concept and Choreography
Sergiu Matis

Performance and choreographic collaboration
Emilie Gregersen
Kelvin Kilonzo
Nicola Micallef
Guilherme Morais
Aya Toraiwa
Kasia Wolinska

Dramaturgy
Mila Pavićević

Stage design and light
Adrian Ganea

Costume
Philip Ingman

Technical direction and sound
Andrea Parolin

Choreographic assistence
Manon Parent

Production management and dramaturgical assistance
Anna Chwialkowska

Distributing Producer
Danila – Freitag, Agency for the Performing Arts

Biographien

Sergiu Matis is a Romanian choreographer born in 1981 in Cluj-Napoca. He received his dance education at the Liceul de Coregrafie in Cluj and the Mannheim Academy of Dance, and began his career at Tanztheater Nuremberg. He has been living and working in Berlin since 2008, creating his own works such as Keep It Real (2013), Explicit Content (2015), Neverendings (2017), Hopeless. (2019), UNREST (2021), and DRANG (2022). He has led workshops and educational activities at a range of institutions worldwide. In 2014 he completed his masters in Solo/Dance/Authorship at the Inter-University Centre for Dance (HZT) / Berlin University of the Arts (UdK).

Radialsystem Tanzfabrik
Tanzfabrik Radialsystem

Tanzfabrik Berlin and Radialsystem have presented two artists to a broad audience on the stages of Radialsystem every spring since 2019. The collaboration aims to improve the labor and presentation conditions of dance professionals in Berlin beyond their individual institutional contexts. In addition to the visibility of this joint platform, an important moment of nexus between local and international artists and scenes is achieved. Both institutions provide equal support to the artists in the forms of co-production resources, rehearsal spaces and public relations work.

Credits

A Sergiu Matis production, funded by the Berlin Capital Cultural Fund (Haupstadtkulturfonds, HKF).

Co-produced by Tanzfabrik Berlin, Radial Foundation, PACT Zollverein and ICI-CCN Montpellier Occitanie in the frame of Life Long Burning, a project co-financed by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union. Supported by Bureau Ritter/TANZPAKT RECONNECT, funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media in the framework of the NEUSTART KULTUR aid programme for dance.

Sergiu Matis is supported for 4 years by apap - FEMINIST FUTURES 2020-2024 - a project co-founded by Creative Europe Programme of the European Union.

 

Radialsystem is parter of JUGENDKULTURKARTE Berlin.
More info at: www.kulturprojekte.berlin

 

Media partners: taz. die tageszeitung, tip Berlin, ExBerliner and Rausgegangen.

The need to imagine better worlds – not to escape reality, but to reimagine the present – courses through human history. Driven by the force of utopian thought, Berlin-based choreographer Sergiu Matis experiments in his new performance “Blazing Worlds” with imagining a possible future of which dance will continue to be a part. “Blazing Worlds” is presented as part of the collaboration :LOVE: between Tanzfabrik and Radialsystem presented in Radialsystem’s spaces. The initiative “Radialsystem ♥ Tanzfabrik” fosters cooperation between the two institutions specifically to improve the conditions of presentation by dancemakers.

Inspired by the 1666 (proto-)feminist science fiction novel “The Description of a New World, Called the Blazing-World” by Margaret Cavendish, the performance unfolds to reveal an exploration of past and present utopian desires. Sergiu Matis combines visionary feminist science fiction and climate fiction literature as well as literary works of queer utopias into a latticework of condensing, intersecting and overlapping references. Hybrid bodies composed of fictions navigate and dance through interwoven relations and ideas in search of the visionary force that animated these literary utopias.

Cast

Concept and Choreography
Sergiu Matis

Performance and choreographic collaboration
Emilie Gregersen
Kelvin Kilonzo
Nicola Micallef
Guilherme Morais
Aya Toraiwa
Kasia Wolinska

Dramaturgy
Mila Pavićević

Stage design and light
Adrian Ganea

Costume
Philip Ingman

Technical direction and sound
Andrea Parolin

Choreographic assistence
Manon Parent

Production management and dramaturgical assistance
Anna Chwialkowska

Distributing Producer
Danila – Freitag, Agency for the Performing Arts

Biographies

Sergiu Matis is a Romanian choreographer born in 1981 in Cluj-Napoca. He received his dance education at the Liceul de Coregrafie in Cluj and the Mannheim Academy of Dance, and began his career at Tanztheater Nuremberg. He has been living and working in Berlin since 2008, creating his own works such as Keep It Real (2013), Explicit Content (2015), Neverendings (2017), Hopeless. (2019), UNREST (2021), and DRANG (2022). He has led workshops and educational activities at a range of institutions worldwide. In 2014 he completed his masters in Solo/Dance/Authorship at the Inter-University Centre for Dance (HZT) / Berlin University of the Arts (UdK).

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