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 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.

Cast & Crew
Performance: Aaron Carey-Burrows, Veronica Sala (Jaewon Jung), Davide Lorenzi, Caspar Sebastian Stuart Ilschner (Angeliki Anargyrou)
Artistic Direction, Concept, and Choreography: Kosmas Kosmopoulos
Choreographic Assistance: Angeliki Anargyrou, Aaron Carey-Burrows, Nikoleta Koutitsa
Composition and Music: Antonios Palaskas
Costumes: Maria Salouvardou
Photography and Text Development: Dr. Georgia Touliatou
Dramaturgical Consulting: Kai Pichmann
Technical Direction and Lighting Design: Eduard Mont de Palol
Camera and Video Editing: Nicolas Karatzas
Production Management and Public Relations: Fee Josten, Carmen Maria Jentzsch
Photography, Camera and Documentation: Giovanni Lo Curto

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.

_ Performances in Athens in November 2025 (as part of the international exchange program “How to Dance in Times of Crisis?”, supported by the German-Greek Youth Office DGJW)
Saturday, November 1, 2025, 9:00 PM
Sunday, November 2, 2025, 9:00 PM
Industriepark PLYFA, Koritsas 39, Votanikos, 10447 Athens, Greece
Free admission, reservation at: performance@lunapark.works

_ Performance in Berlin in September 2025 (as part of the “Viral Atmospheres” Summer School)
Tuesday, September 23, 2025, 8:30 PM
Uferstudios, Badstraße 41a, 13357 Berlin
Free admission, reservation at: performance@lunapark.works

The  Viral Atmospheres Summer School is organized by the Research Group Medical Anthropology of the  Bernhard-Nocht-Instituts für Tropenmedizin in Hamburg (BNITM Germany) and supported, among others, by the Volkswagen Foundation. Viral Atmospheres is a multi-year international and transdisciplinary research project that investigates how emotional states were experienced, represented, and communicated during the COVID-19 pandemic across different countries. It also experiments with immersive practices related to pandemic worlds, staging them through words, images, and sounds, while attempting to construct alternative atmospheres of openness for the future.

_ Outreach Formats in Berlin in September 2025
Wednesday, September 17, 2025, at Gesundbrunnen Primary School (Auditorium)
Prinzenallee 9, 13357 Berlin
_ 5:00 PM
Open rehearsal and feedback circle for SERRATED EDGES
_ 7:00 PM
Dance and movement workshop
Registration: production@lunapark.works – Free admission. Please arrive at least 10 minutes before the start. Attending both events is recommended.

These outreach formats are presented as part of  „SPIELRAUM – Szene Tage der darstellenden Künste Berlin“ , a program of the Performing Arts Program Berlin, and in cooperation with Gesundbrunnen Primary School within the framework of the project  „tanz(t)räume“, funded by TANZPAKT Stadt-Land-Bund and co-financed by the Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion.

_ Performances in Berlin in September 2024
Saturday, September 28, 2024, 8:00 PM (Premiere)
Sunday, September 29, 2024, 8:00 PM
St. Elisabeth-Kirche, Invalidenstraße 3, 10115 Berlin
Tickets: €15 / €10 (reduced) available via Eventim or at the evening box office

Visitor note
Artificial fog, loud sounds, intense lighting effects (strobe lights) and darkness are used in individual scenes of the performance. There are no designated seats. It is possible to change seats during the performance. There is no late admission to the performance.

Production & support
SERRATED EDGES is a production by the Initiative LUNA PARK e.V. and Kosmas Kosmopoulos in collaboration with Gesundbrunnen-Grundschule, supported as part of the project ‘tanz(t)räume’, funded by TANZPAKT Stadt-Land-Bund, and co-financed by the Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion and ‘tanz(t)räume in 2024’, funded by the urban development program Sozialer Zusammenhalt via the project fund of QM Badstraße. With special thanks to Susanne Mueller Nelson, Natasa Peric, Dr. Maria Tsouvala, Andreas Harder and Uferstudios.

LUNA PARK, founded in 2002 as an initiative of independent artists and led by the Athens-born Berlin-based choreographer Kosmas Kosmopoulos, has been realising dance productions with performances in Germany and abroad, extracurricular artistic education projects for children, teenagers and young adults and international exchange and encounter programs for young dance professionals and dance education specialists for over 20 years. Locally, LUNA PARK is primarily active in Berlin-Wedding. In 2019, LUNA PARK institutionalised itself at Gesundbrunnen Primary School as the non-profit association Initiative LUNA PARK e.V. in order to open up the school as a cultural, meeting and production space for contemporary dance. The ‘tanz(t)räume’ project, funded by TANZPAKT Stadt-Land-Bund, plays a special role in the realisation of this project. Since 2022, the LUNA PARK initiative has been offering young dance professionals the opportunity to get involved in LUNA PARK productions and in artistic education work with children and young people as part of an artist residency, thus promoting greater cultural participation, as well as developing and presenting their own performative projects.