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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

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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

en fr

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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