The new dance performance by Kosmas Kosmopoulos and LUNA PARK explores the fragility of human existence. SERRATED EDGES evokes the duality of the body, in its presence and in its absence, with its movements and gestures, with images, words, noises, whispers, screams, lamentations, laughter and silence. In the beginning, four people are trapped in the same sequence of movements. At some point, the moving still life breaks up, new paths lead from the offside into this world, from the dark into the light. Common ground forms and deforms and is repeatedly separated, as if cut off by the jagged edges of a blade. The cuts go through movement, voices, bodies, life. In a timeless time, four creatures drift through contemplative spaces, mourning and fighting and hoping, searching for light, for orientation, for redemption, in the face of unresolved conflicts and violence in history and in the present of humanity, which is always also their own. Like other works by LUNA PARK, the piece stands for the desire to interweave life and art, fiction and reality, social criticism and dance aesthetics.
Cast & crew
Artistic direction, concept and choreography: Kosmas Kosmopoulos
Choreographic assistance: Angeliki Anargyrou, Aaron Carey-Burrows, Nikoleta Koutitsa
Original music: Antonios Palaskas
Camera and video editing: Nicolas Karatzas
Production management and communication: Fee Josten, Carmen Maria Jentzsch
Photography and documentation: Giovanni Lo Curto
Performances (duration: 60 Minuten)
September 28, 2024, 08:00 pm (Premiere)
September 29, 2024, 08:00 pm
St. Elisabethkirche, Invalidenstraße 3, 10115 Berlin
Tickets
15 € & 10 € (reduced) via eventim or at the box office
Production & support
SERRATED EDGES is a production by the Initiative LUNA PARK e.V. and Kosmas Kosmopoulos in collaboration with Gesundbrunnen-Grundschule, supported as part of the project ‘tanz(t)räume’, funded by TANZPAKT Stadt-Land-Bund, and co-financed by the Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion and ‘tanz(t)räume in 2024’, funded by the urban development program Sozialer Zusammenhalt via the project fund of QM Badstraße. With special thanks to Susanne Mueller Nelson, Natasa Peric, Dr. Maria Tsouvala, Andreas Harder and Uferstudios.
LUNA PARK, founded in 2002 as an initiative of independent artists and led by the Athens-born Berlin-based choreographer Kosmas Kosmopoulos, has been realising dance productions with performances in Germany and abroad, extracurricular artistic education projects for children, teenagers and young adults and international exchange and encounter programs for young dance professionals and dance education specialists for over 20 years. Locally, LUNA PARK is primarily active in Berlin-Wedding. In 2019, LUNA PARK institutionalised itself at Gesundbrunnen Primary School as the non-profit association Initiative LUNA PARK e.V. in order to open up the school as a cultural, meeting and production space for contemporary dance. The ‘tanz(t)räume’ project, funded by TANZPAKT Stadt-Land-Bund, plays a special role in the realisation of this project. Since 2022, the LUNA PARK initiative has been offering young dance professionals the opportunity to get involved in LUNA PARK productions and in artistic education work with children and young people as part of an artist residency, thus promoting greater cultural participation, as well as developing and presenting their own performative projects.
