Blazing Worlds
Performance by Sergiu Matis
Performance / Tanz audio description haptic access tour
© Mila Pavićević & Philip Ingman
© Evgenia Chetvertkova
Ticket Prices
Tickets are also available at Tanzfabrik
pay as you can
10/15/20/25 Euros
Duration approx. 120 minutes
With German and English surtitles
Ticket Prices
Tickets are also available at Tanzfabrik
pay as you can
10/15/20/25 Euros
Duration approx. 120 minutes
With German and English surtitles
Ticket Prices
Tickets are also available at Tanzfabrik
pay as you can
10/15/20/25 Euros
Duration approx. 120 minutes
With German and English surtitles
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
Tickets are also available at Tanzfabrik
pay as you can
10/15/20/25 Euros
Duration approx. 120 minutes
With German and English surtitles
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
Set design & video
Adrian Ganea
Composition
Ana María Fonseca Núñez
Manon Parent
Andrea Parolin
Choir master and vocal coach
Ana María Fonseca Núñez
Costume
Philip Ingman
Technical direction and sound design
Andrea Parolin
Light
Adrian Ganea, Fabian Bleisch
Choreographic assistence
Manon Parent
Subtitles and translation into German
Calvin Lanz
Production management and dramaturgical assistance
Anna Chwialkowska
Distributing Producer
Danila – Freitag, Agency for the Performing Arts
Thanks to
Juan Pablo Cámara
Evgenia Chetvertkova
Katrina Bastian
Emma Juliard
Orlando Rodriguez
Ausdiodecription
Irene Baumann
Gerald Pirner
(Gravity Access Berlin)
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.
Audiodeskription & Tastführung
Sa 10 12 2022 19 Uhr
Wir bitten um Anmeldung, telefonisch unter +49 (0)30 288 788 588 oder per E-Mail an ticket@radialsystem.de.
In Zusammenarbeit mit Gravity Access Services Berlin bietet das Radialsystem 2022 Audiodeskriptionen für ausgewählte Programmpunkte an: Eine Audiodeskription ist eine Live-Audiospur, die von professionellen Audiobeschreibenden über ein Headset für Menschen mit Sehbehinderung live eingesprochen wird. Die Audiobeschreibenden von Gravity Access Berlin sind professionelle Tänzer*innen oder Schauspieler*innen und entsprechend geschult, um die bedeutsamen visuellen Details einer Aufführung, die für Zuschauende mit Sehbehinderungen unzugänglich wären, klar und ansprechend zu beschreiben.
Tastführungen sind 20-30 minütige Live-Führungen vor der Vorstellung ergänzend zu den Audiodeskriptionen. Sie ermöglichen es Besucher*innen mit Sehbehinderung, den Raum, die Darsteller*innen, die Kostüme und Objekte sowie die wichtigsten Bewegungselemente einer Aufführung durch Berührung und eigene Bewegung zu erleben.
Credits
Music
- “Glacier Rave” – Music by Andrea Parolin and song by Manon Parent
- “Into that that part of the world” – Based on “Zephyrus brings the Time” - Music by Michael Cavendish and text by Margaret Cavendish. Arrangement: Ana María Fonseca Núñez
- Recitativo “There was but one way” - Music by Ana María Fonseca Núñez and text by Margaret Cavendish, keybord: Aya Toraiwa
- “Zefiro Torna” – Music by Claudio Monteverdi, text by Ottavio Rinuccini. Arrangement and basso continuo: Ana María Fonseca Núñez
- “Jelly Fruits” – Music by Andrea Parolin, arrangement by Manon Parent, text by Emilie Gregersen
- “97 mini organs“ – Collective composition by Andrea Parolin and Ana María Fonseca Núñez. Musical translation of the dance and organetto: Ana María Fonseca Núñez
- Theme from Symphony Op. 95 No. 9, “From the New World” - II. Largo. Music by Antonín Dvořák, text by: Kasia Wolinska
Text
Excerpts from Margaret Cavendish: “Description of a New World, Called the Blazing-World”, 1666, and Thomas Halliday: “Otherlands: A World in the Making”, 2022.
Storytelling and song lyrics by: Emilie Gregersen, Kelvin Kilonzo, Sergiu Matis, Nicola Micallef, Guilherme Morais, Aya Toraiwa and Kasia Wolinska
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
Set design & video
Adrian Ganea
Composition
Ana María Fonseca Núñez
Manon Parent
Andrea Parolin
Choir master and vocal coach
Ana María Fonseca Núñez
Costume
Philip Ingman
Technical direction and sound design
Andrea Parolin
Light
Adrian Ganea, Fabian Bleisch
Choreographic assistence
Manon Parent
Subtitles and translation into German
Calvin Lanz
Production management and dramaturgical assistance
Anna Chwialkowska
Distributing Producer
Danila – Freitag, Agency for the Performing Arts
Thanks to
Juan Pablo Cámara
Evgenia Chetvertkova
Katrina Bastian
Emma Juliard
Orlando Rodriguez
Ausdiodecription
Irene Baumann
Gerald Pirner
(Gravity Access Berlin)
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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