bottom up productions & Isabela Fernandes Santana: O Que Resta do Fogo

Charcoal burners inhabit a paradox: they are guardians of ancestral knowledge and agents of destruction. Entire forests have been felled over centuries, yet the fire that consumes can also regenerate; the knowledge that destroys holds the seed of renewal.


The choreography traces the cosmology of this labor – one that knows before it sees – through altered air, shifting scents, and the invisible spread of heat. It is an attempt to embody the memory of the forest: what existed before, each felled tree, each combustion cycle. Every repeated gesture leaves its mark on skin and muscle, inscribed in the intimacy of sensing.


bottom up productions is a structure founded by choreographers and dancers Julek Kreutzer and Felipe Fizkal. It seeks to de-hierarchize the structures of contemporary dance production in Berlin. For their Tanztage Berlin premiere in 2026, they invited choreographer Isabela Fernandes Santana to create a piece with them and dancer Mariagiulia Serantoni, centering embodiment as a form of knowledge.



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