16/06/2026
We’re happy and excited to announce our fourth residency taking place in ausland:
𝐌𝐀𝐍𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐒: 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐲𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐓𝐢𝐦𝐞 | 𝐑𝐞𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐓𝐢𝐦𝐞 𝐓𝐡𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡 𝐁𝐨𝐝𝐲, 𝐍𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐒𝐞𝐧𝐬𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧
B𝑦: A𝑛a𝑗a𝑟a L. 𝐴m𝑎r𝑎n𝑡e | T𝑖s A𝑙y | M𝑎r𝑐 𝑃h𝑖l𝑖p𝑝 𝐺a𝑏r𝑖e𝑙
What happens when time is no longer ruled by the clock?
In this residency, the collective MANATIS investigates forms of time shaped by bodies, sensations, and the rhythms of the natural world. The project begins from the idea that performance can dissolve the boundary between spectator and participant, creating a shared environment where scenic and social space merge.
Drawing from crip theory, q***r perspectives, and ecological observation, the collective questions the dominant linear model of time based on productivity, efficiency, and control. Instead, they explore temporalities that emerge through fatigue, rest, repetition, interruption, instinct, and sensory awareness. The time of a bird, a mountain, a river, or a chronically ill body each follows its own logic — and each offers another way of understanding presence and relation.
The residency process combines choreographic research, movement practices inspired by animals, rhythmic experimentation, collective dramaturgy, and accessible working methods that adapt to the needs and energies of the group. Rest and pacing are treated not as limitations, but as creative forces.
Together, Marc Philipp Gabriel, Tis Aly, and Anajara Amarante bring long-standing shared practices in performance, ecology, disability, q***rness, scenography, rhythm, and embodied research. Their previous collaborations form the basis for this new phase of inquiry.
The result will be an evolving performative space where audiences are invited to move, rest, observe, and experience time differently.
✶ 𝗣𝗹𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗲 𝗻𝗼𝘁𝗲: a public sharing will follow in November 2026! — 𝗦𝘁𝗮𝘆 𝗧𝘂𝗻𝗲𝗱!
Anajara photo: Ana Cicowicz
Tis Aly photo: photo from UM~A- urban poetics - 2026 - pic by Thomas Lenden
