Sebastian Matthias:
People looking at people looking at people

Every day we get together at different public spaces and automatically become part of a complex social structure. For example in a library, there exist different rules of communication and moving in the space than in a bar or a church. For three years, choreographer Sebastian Matthias and his team have investigated urban organisation dynamics with in the performance series groove space. Now they bring this research back into reality. Equipped with a map, the spectators are finding their own way through the city and explore together with the dancers the specific social situations and their choreographic potential.

CHOREOGRAPHY, CONCEPT Sebastian Matthias CO-CHOREOGRAPHY, DANCE Malika Ali, Jubal Battisti, Lisanne Goodhue, Oskar Landström, Isaac Spencer, Harumi Terayama, Ildikó Tóth VISUAL ARTS, PERFORMANCE Nino Baumgartner VISUAL ARTS Eva Berendes SOUND INSTALLATION Tamer Fahri Özgönenc MUSIC Simonne Jones LIGHT, TECHNICAL MANAGEMENT Andreas Harder COSTUME Marie Perglerova DramaturgY Anna Mülter ProduCtion ASSISTANCE Ece Tufan COMPANY MANAGEMENT Mira Moschallski

A production by Sebastian Matthias in coproduction with Kampnagel, tanzhaus nrw, Gessnerallee Zürich and SOPHIENSÆLE. Funded by Hauptstadtkulturfonds, Konzeptionsförderung der Kulturbehörde Hamburg and Stadt Zürich Kultur.

photo © Jubal Battisti