Le Savali

2011

»Le Savali concerns the city as site of the between of life and death, or the city as site of transformation, mutability, unstable thresholds of identity, populations or governance. Le Savali opens the past and future of the city, the city as partition between spaces for living and memorials or tombs of the dead. It is an occasion for drawing out and drawing over contemporary political, social and cultural conditions of empire and the city.«
Lemi Ponifasio

Performed at Haus der Berliner Festspiele, Berlin (2011)

Concept/Stage/Choreography/Direction/Sound Design/Musical Direction: Lemi Ponifasio
Lighting Design: Helen Todd
Composition: Fabrizio Cassol
Photo: MAU

With MAU – Samoa, Neuseeland, Kiribati
in collaboration with performers, dancers, musicians, and a choir from Berlin

BERLIN
Performance: Liza Alpizar Aguillar, Vincent Bozek, Gabriel Castillo, Esteban Castro, Ana Kavalis, Soraya Miroud, Yalda Moinzadeh, Ming Poon,
Asuka Julia Riedl, Angelo Rygielski, Maya Zapata
Bulgarian Voices Berlin: Boryana Cerreti-Velichkova – coach
Kerstin Dambeck, Annette Isenbart, Andrea Pohler, Ulrike Reichhoff, Petra Stawowczyk, Ani Stoyanova, Katya Tasheva, Margarita Todorova-Jabarski, Tsvetelina Yonova-Karbe, Weronika Zmiejewski
Musiker Xell – oboe/gaida, Simon Jakob Drees – violin
Vladimir Karparov – saxophone, Silke Lange – accordion
Yann Metzmacher – violin, Horst Nonnenmacher – double bass
Levent Yildirim – percussion

MAU
Ioane Papalii, Teataki Tamango, Rosie Belvie, Charles Koroneho, Arikitau Tentau, Kelemete Fu’a, Maereke Teteka, Gerard Tatireta, Tupua Tigafua, Kasina Campbell, Tiui Elisara, Helmi Prasetyo (Teater Ruang), Courtney Meredith, Sam Hamilton, Sani Muliaumaseali’i

Commissioned by spielzeit’europa | Berliner Festspiele
With the support of ENPARTS – European Network of Performing Arts, Biennale di Venezia as part of the Culture Programme of the European Commission