MEDIATHEK

Deleted Scenes tackles the idea of intangible archives. In times when the syntagm "contemporary dance" represents a blank signifier, history becomes a powerful and appealing aesthetic load. Choreographer Sergiu Matis, however, starts from the negative space of historicity. He asks the question about undanced dances, lost grooves, and deep, dark water rhythms. His archive is the other archive, a shadow archive and anarchive that once exposed to light burns in stormy, virtuosic speed. The materiality of found artefacts is influenced by the different navigating tools that stir the archives. These archives preserve history that has never been history – that has been destroyed, deleted before becoming history. An archive of that which has not been and could have been at the same time. A production by Sergiu Matis With: Maria Walser, Corey Scott-Gilbert, Sergiu Matis Visuals: 8gg Music: Lotic Dramaturgy: Mila Pavićević Light: Sandra Blatterer Costumes: Federico Polucci PR: björn & björn Production management: Mara Nedelcu Technical production: Robert Prideaux Co-production: Tanzfabrik Berlin Funded by the Projektförderung des Regierenden Bürgermeisters von Berlin – Senatskanzlei – Kulturelle Angelegenheiten, in cooperation with Tanzfabrik Berlin. [msb]