16. ANTISTATIC Festival: Extinction Room (Hopeless.)

“Extinction room” is a place where dreamlike bird calls, cries and songs of extinct and endangered species echo, while three performers recount the stories of these birds. Arranged and composed by AGF, also known as Antye Greie, these sounds become artefacts reflecting the glow of human interaction with nature.

The bird recordings, collected over several decades by the Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and the Xeno-canto Foundation (Netherland) are mixed with stories - scientific and mythical - and with exciting dance performance choreographed by Sergiu Matis.

“Extinction Room” has toured throughout Europe, including shows at Piatra Neamț Theater Festival, Europalia Arts Festival (Bozar, Brussels), Tanznacht Berlin (Uferstudios), Artdanthé Festival (Vanves), ImPulsTanz (Vienna), DansFabrik (Brest), Bazaar Festival (Prague), Impulse Theater Festival (Mülheim), Latitudes Contemporaines (Lille), Claiming Common Spaces IV (PACT Zollverein, Essen), and Feminist Futures Festival (SZENE, Salzburg).

Sergiu Matis is a Romanian choreographer born in 1981 in Cluj-Napoca. He received his dance education at the Liceul de Coregrafie in Cluj and the Mannheim Academy of Dance, and began his career at Tanztheater Nuremberg. He has been living and working in Berlin since 2008, creating his own works such as Keep It Real (2013), Explicit Content (2015), Neverendings (2017), Hopeless. (2019), UNREST (2021), DRANG (2022) and Blazing Worlds (2023). He has led workshops and educational activities at a range of institutions worldwide. In 2014 he completed his masters in Solo/Dance/Authorship at the Inter-University Centre for Dance (HZT) / Berlin University of the Arts (UdK).

This event is part of 16th edition of Antistatic Festival for Contemporary Dance and Performance. This guest performance is made possible with the partnership and financial support of Goethe-Institut Bulgaria and the Ministry of Culture.

In English. 

Presale: untill 20 April 2023 - 15 BGN; untill 8 May - 20 BGN; regular price after 8 May - 25 BGN.

After the performance, the festival program continues with an opening party with DJ Stèph in Bar "Scena" (Toplotsentrala).

The international program of the festival for contemporary dance and performance "Antistatic" 2023 is organized by the "Brain Store Project" foundation and the "Nomad Dance Academy Bulgaria" association, with the financial support of the Ministry of Culture, National Fund "Culture" under the "Program for the Restoration and development of private cultural organizations", Goethe-Institut Bulgaria, Metropolitan Municipality - Calendar of cultural events and Polish Institute in Sofia, and in partnership with RCSI "Toplocentrala", "Derrida" Stage and "Etude" Gallery.