10.10.2015 | 7:30 PM | WASP – WORKING ART SPACE AND PRODUCTION

Duration: 60’

Concept: Sergiu Matiș

Performance: Sergiu Matis, Maria Walser, Luis Rodriguez

Dramaturgy: Mila Pavicevic

Sound: Kyan Bayani

Light: Sandra Blatterer

Costume: Lena Schmid

Production: David Eckelmann

A production by Sergiu Matis in coproduction with Uferstudios GmbH, in the frame of the project „Life Long Burning“ with support of the Kulturprogramm Europäische Union, Tanzfabrik Berlin, and by Der Regierender Bürgermeister von Berlin – Senatskanzlei – Kulturelle Angelegenheiten. Supported by the NATIONALES PERFORMANCE NETZ (NPN) International Guest Performance Fund for Dance, which is funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media on the basis of a decision by the German Bundestag.

Over the course of time dance techniques inscribe themselves – layer by layer – into the body. They become a part of it, dictate its expression, drive it to perfection. Technique burns itself into the body, turns it into a machine: a cyborg.

“Explicit Content” is simultaneously revolt and desire: resistance to rigid, artificial form that no virtuoso can escape, and the unbounded pleasure of diving into technique in order to leave behind the inadequacies of the body. The body relishes in squeezing itself into the pre-given form and triumphs when the dance engine rolls over it.