SERRATED EDGES

SERRATED EDGES
LUNA PARK/ Kosmas Kosmopoulos

With the work SERRATED EDGES, the group explores how, despite the violence of history and contemporary crises, the body remains a field of struggle, inquiry, and redefinition.

SERRATED EDGES by Kosmas Kosmopoulos and LUNA PARK explores the fragility of human existence. This dance performance conjures the duality of the body—in its presence and its absence, through its movements and gestures, through images, words, sounds, whispers, screams, laments, laughter, and silence. At the beginning, four people are caught in repetitive patterns of movement. Eventually, this moving still life breaks open; new paths lead from the margins to the center, from darkness to a brighter space. What is shared constantly forms and deforms, only to be separated again—like being cut by the serrated edges of a blade. These cuts pass through movement, voices, bodies, and lives. Creatures drift through contemplative spaces, in a timeless time—mourning, fighting, hoping—searching for light, for orientation, for redemption, in the face of unresolved conflicts and the violence of human history and present day, which is always, in some way, their own.
Like many of LUNA PARK’s works, SERRATED EDGES aims to intertwine life and art, fiction and reality, social critique and the aesthetics of dance. The piece’s poetic-minimalist choreography addresses existential questions about the fragility, transformability, and resilience of human existence and the human body—questions that, against the backdrop of pandemic experiences and other collective crises of our time, and the affective geographies shaped by them, feel more relevant than ever.

SERRATED EDGES contains scenic material from UNBOUND by Angeliki Anargyrou, co-produced by LUNA PARK, and video material from SCRATCHES – TO LIVE BY by Susanne Mueller Nelson and Kosmas Kosmopoulos.

SERRATED EDGES is a production of Initiative LUNA PARK e.V., in cooperation with Greek association LOUNA PARK ERGA, supported in the frame of the artist residency program “tanz(t)räume” (dance rooms/ dreams) funded by TANZPAKT Stadt-Land-Bund (DANCE PACT Local-Regional-National) and the Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion. The performances in Athens take place within the framework of the international exchange program “How to dance in times of crisis?”, which is funded by the German-Greek Youth Office.

Kosmas Kosmopoulos is a choreographer and dance educator based in Berlin and Athens. A graduate of the first generation of P.A.R.T.S. (Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker), he founded the artistic collective LUNA PARK in 2002 and since 2019 has been directing the organization Initiative LUNA PARK e.V. in Berlin. His work combines contemporary performing arts with educational programs for children and young people, often with a migrant or refugee background. His poetically minimalist choreographies explore existential questions about the fragility and resilience of human existence and the body.

LUNA PARK, founded in 2002 as an initiative of independent artists, has been realizing contemporary dance productions with performances in Germany, Greece and abroad, diverse extracurricular artistic education projects for children, teenagers and young adults and international exchange and encounter programs for young dance professionals and dance education specialists for over 20 years. 

Duration: about 60 minutes

The performance is suitable for everyone aged 16 and over. In certain scenes of the performance, artificial fog, loud sounds, intense lighting effects (strobe light), and darkness are used.