"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 the 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.