Sad Sam Matthäus [VOSTF]
2021 - Director : Centre national de la danse, Réalisation
Choreographer(s) : Ferlin, Matija (Croatia)
Video producer : Centre national de la danse
Integral video available at CND de Pantin
Sad Sam Matthäus [VOSTF]
2021 - Director : Centre national de la danse, Réalisation
Choreographer(s) : Ferlin, Matija (Croatia)
Video producer : Centre national de la danse
Integral video available at CND de Pantin
Sad Sam Matthäus
In 2004, Matija Ferlin launched a long-term project titled Sad Sam. This series of pieces creates a tension between the Croatian expression “now I am” and the psychological colour of an auto-fictional character, implied by the Englishness of this title. This attention to the present moment, the driving force of Ferlin’s writing, has been expressed in multiple variations: Sad Sam Revisited (2004/06), Sad Sam Almost 6 (2009) or else Sad Sam Lucky (2012). Pursuing his collaboration with the writer Goran Fercec, for this new episode, the choreographer has taken on Johann Sebastian Bach’s Saint Matthew Passion. In the form of a solo, he grapples with this monumental oratorio and invests it as a landscape formed by the sediments of lived experience. Ferlin sets out to explore the relationships between choreography, speech, intimate narrative, dogma and physical performance, which deal with suffering and endurance, transcending the limitations between the probable and the impossible, the rational and the intuitive.
Source: programme of the CND
Ferlin, Matija
Matija Ferlin studied at the School for New Dance Development in Amsterdam before moving to Berlin. On returning to his native town, Pula, in Croatia, he developed explorations at the crossroads between performance, video, exhibition and design, and has worked with numerous stage directors and visual artists. His pieces have been presented at a large number of festivals, such as Ex-Yu in New York, Rhubarb in Toronto, the Contemporary Dance Festival of Bogotá, Les Rencontres Chorégraphiques Internationales in Seine Saint Denis, or Impulstanz. Sad Sam Matthäus is to be premiered at the Wiener Festwochen 2021.
Source: programme of the CND
Centre national de la danse, Réalisation
Since 2001, the National Center for Dance (CND) has been making recordings of its shows and educational programming and has created resources from these filmed performances (interviews, danced conferences, meetings with artists, demonstrations, major lessons, symposia specialized, thematic arrangements, etc.).
Sad Sam Matthäus
Artistic direction / Conception : Matija Ferlin
Choreography : Matija Ferlin
Interpretation : Matija Ferlin
Artistic consultancy / Dramaturgy : Goran Ferčec
Set design : Mauricio Ferlin
Text : Goran Ferčec, Matija Ferlin
Lights : Sasa Fistric
Costumes : Matija Ferlin
Sound : Luka Princic
Other collaborations : Assistant à la direction Rajna Racz - Production Maja Delak - Assistante production Sabrina Železnik Administration Silvija Stipanov - Matériel visuel Christophe Chemin, Ana Buljan, Jelena Janković - Design graphique Tina Ivezić - Traductions Danijela Bilić Rojnić, Ana Uglešić, Katja Kosi, Maša Dabić
Production / Coproduction of the video work : Enregistré au CND le 24 juin 2021 dans le cadre de Camping 2021
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