Ocean Bound

Performance by Sergiu Matis

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  Ocean Bound 1 – Dichtes Mangrovenwald mit geraden, eng stehenden Bäumen, darunter sichtbare Wurzeln. Ein enger Wasserweg führt durch die Mitte.

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  Ocean Bound 2 – Grüne Wasseroberfläche mit Algen und schwimmenden Blättern, durchzogen von Sonnenlicht und Schatten.

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  Ocean Bound 3 – Zerbrochenes Holzboot im Vordergrund, unscharfes blaues Boot im Hintergrund auf ruhigem Wasser.

Coastlines change beyond recognition; familiar landscapes become absent. Amid climate change and the loss of environments we are bound to and which hold us together, Romanian choreographer Sergiu Matis explores in his new work “Ocean Bound” how moving images affect moving bodies.

Video material, specifically commissioned for the project, observes environments at the intersection of land and sea, human settlement and forest: places where rising water levels caused by mangrove deforestation, shoreline erosion, and tidal disturbance increasingly reshape life. Audience members and performers move freely among video projections on stage, generating a choreography in which bodies, images, and viewers become entangled within a shared environment shaped by the ocean.

“Ocean Bound” makes space for a profound sense of ecological loss and for forms of mourning for which we have no language or rituals. The performers’ bodies are moved by the complex emotions of grief. A choreography emerges at the edge of the digital and the analogue, between documentation and fiction, allowing us to bear the weight of loss, to grieve, and to craft a moving, hopeful poetry from its fragments.

Artists/Collaborators: Sergiu Matis (Konzept und Choreografie), Chihiro Araki, Lisa Densem, Moo Kim, Sergiu Matis (Performance), Mila Lanz (Dramaturgie), Antye Greie-Ripatti (AGF) (Musik), Ladislav Zajac (Bühne und Licht), Chihiro Araki, Lisa Densem, Philip Ingman, Moo Kim , Sergiu Matis (Kostüm), Laurie Young (Choreografische Assistenz), Andrea Parolin (Technische Koordination und Sounddesign), Philip Ingman (Produktionsleitung), (Video (Indonesien)), Dani Huda (Regie, Produktion und Kamera), Ishvara Devati (Performance), Novita Anggraini / Labtek Apung (Mangrovenbesuch und Unterstützung), Annisa Faradila (Assistenz Regie und Produktion), Rifky Akmal , Sopian Aris Saputra (Kameraassistenz), Kevin Bintamur (Beleuchtung und Bühnentechnik (Grip & Electric)), Mircea Drăgoi (Video (Rumänien))

A production by Sergiu Matis. Funded by the Berlin Capital Cultural Fund. Co-produced by PACT Zollverein and Pivot (Cluj, Romania). Supported by Goethe-Institut Indonesia, Tanzfabrik, and Radialsystem.

Radialsystem media partners: The Berliner, tip Berlin, and taz – die tageszeitung.

Next date:

• Date Thursday, 29/October/2026 20:00 ( 3 more dates )
• Venue Radialsystem V
• Address Holzmarktstraße 33, 10243 Berlin-Friedrichshain