SERAFINE1369: (my body / running wild / this animal) glorious – Sophiensæle | Independent Theater in Berlin
SERAFINE1369: (my body / running wild / this animal) glorious
Working with instincts and archives bodies hold, this performance calls ghosts and possible futures into the room through a commitment to the moment. The work unfolds from a desire to meet the complexity, conflicts and contradictions that we embody. Trusting dancing as a practice of wayfinding, processes of gentle disorientation become a strategy for forgetting, losing and remembering ourselves. Haunting and haunted, dancing is understood as an oracular state. SERAFINE1369 is curious about the magic and mysteries of life-processes – distinction, variation, cycles, decomposition; the inevitability of movement.
The information on accessibility is still in progress and will be updated as soon as possible. If any questions remain unanswered until then, please feel free to contact the communication department at barrierefreiheit@sophiensaele.com or 030 27 89 00 35. Please note that details may change by the day of the event. Therefore, if you find out after you have purchased your ticket that the performance is no longer accessible to you, you can contact us for a ticket return at ticketing@sophiensaele.com or 030 27 89 00 45 until 5 business days after the event (Monday through Friday between 10am and 6pm).
Early boarding
If, for artistic reasons, the door to the auditorium does not open until very shortly before the performance begins, there is the option of early boarding.
Tickets
- Reservations can be made via the ticket telephone at 030 283 52 66, Monday to Friday from 4pm-6pm
- Via the online ticket shop
- At the box office
You can also find more information about accessibility at the house here.
Concept, choreography, direction: SERAFINE1369
Light design: Jackie Shemesh
Sound design: Josh Anio Grigg with SERAFINE1369
Performance: Steph McMann, Fernanda Muñoz-Newsome, Eve Stainton, Darcy Wallace, Natifah White, Jamila Johnson-Small
Rehearsal support: Maëva Berthelot, Nandi Bhebhe, Laura Dannequin, Mahika Gautam, Iona Hannagan-Lewis, Serra Kösebay, A. Livingstone, Leah Marojevi, Becky Namgauds, Isabella Oberländer, Luisa D Rozo, Rose Aïda Sall Sao, Andrea Soto, Gesiye Souza-Okpofabri
Video documentation: Phoebe Davies, Keziah Quarcoo
Production: Metal & Water
A production by SERAFINE1369. Commissioned by BAC with support by Cockayne 10th Anniversary Grants for the Arts. With additional commissioning support from Sophiensæle and Fruitmarket Gallery. Media partners: Missy Magazine, Siegessäule, taz.
SERAFINE1369 is an artist, dancer and body-focused researcher working with dancing as a philosophical undertaking, a political project with ethical psycho-spiritual ramifications for being-in-the-world; dancing as intimate technology. They work with/in the context of the hostile architectures of the metropolis towards moments and states of transcendence.
Their practice is relational, cumulative and often collaborative and they work in various constellations, at different scales and in different roles to build spaces for communing/attuning/communicating. Spaces that might hold the complex, multiple and contradictory; spaces that consider movement and transformation as inevitable.
Their work prioritizes listening and is responsive to the specificities of context, using movement as a tool for flattening hierarchies of perception between visible and invisible (felt/sensed/remembered) presences. SERAFINE1369 is also an acupuncturist and a doctoral researcher at Goldsmiths.