SERRATED EDGES is conceived as a poetic-minimalist choreography that engages with existential questions about the fragility, mutability, and resilience of human existence and the body – questions that appear particularly relevant in the context of pandemic experiences, collective crises, and affective geographies.
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SERRATED EDGES
SERRATED EDGES
SERRATED EDGES
SERRATED EDGES
SERRATED EDGES
SERRATED EDGES evokes the duality of the body—in its presence and in its absence, through its movements and gestures, through images, words, sounds, whispers, screams, lamentations, laughter, and silence. At the beginning, there are four people, trapped in repetitive movements. Eventually, the animated still life begins to crack open; new paths lead from the margins to the here and now, from darkness into brightness. What is shared forms and deforms, and is repeatedly torn apart—as if cut by the serrated edges of a blade. These cuts run through movement, voices, bodies, lives.
In a timeless time, four creatures drift through contemplative spaces—mourning, struggling, hoping—in search of light, of orientation, of redemption, in the face of unresolved conflicts and the violence of human history and the present, which is always also their own. Like other works by LUNA PARK, this piece stands for the intention to interweave life and art, fiction and reality, social critique and dance aesthetics.
60 minutes
Additional information
The Summer School is organized by the research group Medical Anthropology of the Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine in Hamburg (BNITM, Deutschland) and is funded by the VolkswagenStiftung.
SERRATED EDGES is a production by Initiative LUNA PARK e.V. and Kosmas Kosmopoulos in collaboration with the Gesundbrunnen Primary School, supported within the framework of the project tanz(t)räume, funded by TANZPAKT Stadt-Land-Bund and co-financed by the Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion. Performance: Aaron Carey-Burrows, Nikoleta Koutitsa, Davide Lorenzi, Caspar Sebastian Stuart Ilschner Artistic direction, concept and choreography: Kosmas Kosmopoulos Choreographic assistance: Angeliki Anargyrou, Aaron Carey-Burrows, Nikoleta Koutitsa Original music: Antonios PalaskasCostumes: Maria SalouvardouPhotography and text work: Dr. Georgia TouliatouDramaturgical advice and text translation: Kai PichmannTechnical direction and light design: Eduard Mont de Palol Camera and video editing: Nicolas Karatzas Photography and documentation: Giovanni Lo Curto
Organizers: Sung-Joon Park, and Jacqueline Häußler (BNITM, Hamburg, Germany)
SERRATED EDGES is a production by Initiative LUNA PARK e.V. and Kosmas Kosmopoulos in collaboration with the Gesundbrunnen Primary School, supported within the framework of the project tanz(t)räume, funded by TANZPAKT Stadt-Land-Bund and co-financed by the Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion. Performance: Aaron Carey-Burrows, Nikoleta Koutitsa, Davide Lorenzi, Caspar Sebastian Stuart Ilschner Artistic direction, concept and choreography: Kosmas Kosmopoulos Choreographic assistance: Angeliki Anargyrou, Aaron Carey-Burrows, Nikoleta Koutitsa Original music: Antonios PalaskasCostumes: Maria SalouvardouPhotography and text work: Dr. Georgia TouliatouDramaturgical advice and text translation: Kai PichmannTechnical direction and light design: Eduard Mont de Palol Camera and video editing: Nicolas Karatzas Photography and documentation: Giovanni Lo Curto
Organizers: Sung-Joon Park, and Jacqueline Häußler (BNITM, Hamburg, Germany)
Dates
September 2025
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