Performance . Revival by Sergiu Matis in the frame of Tanznacht Berlin 2025: Vocal Affairs
In “Warp Renderings”, Sergiu Matis explores how aestheticized images of landscapes have distorted contemporary society’s relationship to the natural world — from European landscape painting traditions to photography, satellite imagery, CGI and virtual reality.
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Warp Renderings
The solo work proposes different ways to access the natural environment, by revisiting and investigating the ideological twists that it has been subjected to in the past. These distortions are exaggerated to the point of rupture, cracking and warping the canvas and the screen, and creating fissures in the body, making it permeable and able to resonate with the natural elements it represents.
Perhaps through this breaking of traditions — this conceptual vandalism — people can repair and restore their connection with nature, allowing it to spill back at them, or at least, back into the dancing body.
Additional information
Concept, Choreography, Performance: Sergiu Matis
Music: György Ligeti, Emptyset, Hexorcismos, Simina Oprescu
Text: Sergiu Matis, Philip Ingman
Dramaturgical Advice: Mila Pavićević
Technical Management, Sound Design: Andrea Parolin
Light: Martin Pilz
Video: Calvin Lanz, Frank Manzano
Production: Philip Ingman
A production by Sergiu Matis in co-production with Tanzfabrik Berlin BÜHNE. Supported by the Institute for Performing Arts (InSzPer) Warsaw as part of apap - FEMINIST FUTURES, a project co-financed by the Creative Europe programme of the European Union.
Costumes and stage objects are made from reused and recycled materials
Sergiu Matis (he/him) is a Romanian choreographer living and working in Berlin since 2008. His work has been presented throughout Europe, including at ImPulsTanz (Vienna), Centre National de la Danse (Paris), PACT Zollverein (Essen), Trafó (Budapest), Latitudes Contemporaines (Lille) and the National Center for Dance Bucharest. 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 Berlin (HZT).
Music: György Ligeti, Emptyset, Hexorcismos, Simina Oprescu
Text: Sergiu Matis, Philip Ingman
Dramaturgical Advice: Mila Pavićević
Technical Management, Sound Design: Andrea Parolin
Light: Martin Pilz
Video: Calvin Lanz, Frank Manzano
Production: Philip Ingman
A production by Sergiu Matis in co-production with Tanzfabrik Berlin BÜHNE. Supported by the Institute for Performing Arts (InSzPer) Warsaw as part of apap - FEMINIST FUTURES, a project co-financed by the Creative Europe programme of the European Union.
Costumes and stage objects are made from reused and recycled materials
Sergiu Matis (he/him) is a Romanian choreographer living and working in Berlin since 2008. His work has been presented throughout Europe, including at ImPulsTanz (Vienna), Centre National de la Danse (Paris), PACT Zollverein (Essen), Trafó (Budapest), Latitudes Contemporaines (Lille) and the National Center for Dance Bucharest. 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 Berlin (HZT).
Dates
September 2025
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