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Sergiu Matis - Warp Renderings
Event by: Tanzfabrik Berlin Bühne
Location: Uferstudios GmbH, Uferstraße 23, Berlin - Mitte
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Warp Renderings
Performance . Revival by Sergiu Matis in the frame of Tanznacht Berlin 2025: Vocal Affairs
[perform]
Tickets: https://pretix.eu/tanzfabrikberlin/warprender/
11.09.2025 / 21:00
12.09.2025 / 19:30
Uferstudios / Studio 5
Duration approx. 60 Minutes
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.
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 — we can repair and restore our connection with nature, allowing it to spill back at us, or at least, back into the dancing body.
➡️ 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). www.sergiumatis.com
Credits: 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
Supporters: 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
Performance . Revival by Sergiu Matis in the frame of Tanznacht Berlin 2025: Vocal Affairs
[perform]
Tickets: https://pretix.eu/tanzfabrikberlin/warprender/
11.09.2025 / 21:00
12.09.2025 / 19:30
Uferstudios / Studio 5
Duration approx. 60 Minutes
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.
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 — we can repair and restore our connection with nature, allowing it to spill back at us, or at least, back into the dancing body.
➡️ 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). www.sergiumatis.com
Credits: 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
Supporters: 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