Sergiu Matis
Earth Works
We kindly ask you to bring a fully charged cell phone and your own headphones.
TICKETS 05.07. TICKETS 06.07.The score of the new performance by choreographer Sergiu Matis is composed of texts written by authors from around the planet 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.
Meeting point: PACT Zollverein, Bullmannaue 20A, 45327 Essen
Please be at the meeting point 15 minutes before the start of the performance!
Important information: The event takes place partly outdoors on the grounds of the Zollverein UNESCO World Heritage Site, which is not barrier-free. Most of the footpath surface is gravel and some sites of the event can only be accessed on foot via narrow, unpaved paths.
Languages: English, German & subtitles in English
Content notes:
Increased noise levels
Concept & Choreography Sergiu Matis Performance Manon Parent, Lisa Densem, Moo Kim, Sergiu Matis, Nicola Micallef, Chihiro Araki (original cast) Text Hana Pera Aoake, Rahima Gambo, Priya Jay, Jeanine Leane, Harun Morrison, Leena Valkeapää, Oula A. Valkeapää Dramaturgy Mila Pavićević Music & Composition Antye Greie-Ripatti (AGF) Stage & Light Ladislav Zajac Costume Manon Parent, Lisa Densem, Philip Ingman, Moo Kim, Sergiu Matis, Nicola Micallef Choreographic Assistance Laurie Young Voiceover - epilogue Lisa Densem, Antye Greie-Ripatti (AGF) Technical Management & Sound Andrea Parolin Vocal coach Jule Flierl Editorial coordination Harun Morrison German Translation Calvin Lanz Production Anna Chwialkowska, Philip Ingman Distribution & Tour Management Philip Ingman
A Sergiu Matis production. Funded by the Berlin Capital Cultural Fund (Hauptstadtkulturfonds). Co-produced by Teatro Nacional Dona Maria II (Lisbon) in the frame of apap – FEMINIST FUTURES, a project co-funded by the Creative Europe programme of the European Union, PACT Zollverein (Essen), Radialsystem (Berlin) and Tanzfabrik (Berlin). Supported by Kunstencentrum BUDA (Kortrijk) in the frame of apap.
Additional excerpts from Jeanine Leane (2018) “Kumbilor, hill in my Country” in Walk back over, Carlton South: Corditebooks; Rahima Gambo (2019) A Walk (video art work); Harun Morrison (2022) The Telepathic Butterfly (unpublished poem); Sergiu Matis (2024) Nothing remains (unpublished poem); Marion Poschmann (2020) “Die Große Nordische Expedition” in Nimbus, Berlin: Suhrkamp; Thomas Halliday (2022) “Otherlands” London: Allen Lane. Jeanine Leane acknowledges: Aunty Iris Reid (Wiradjuri language teacher), Uncle Dr Stan Grant (Snr) (creator of the Wiradjuri dictionary together with settler linguist Dr John Rudder), and Uncle Cecil Grant, Pastor (deceased) (Wiradjuri language custodian and leader in Wiradjuri language revival).
