Kosmas Kosmopolous/Lunapark, 2019-2025

Beautiful Landscapes, 2020, 2021

Life could be over by tomorrow. Time for a memento mori. But could everything have turned out differently if we had only known more, believed more, wanted more? BEAUTIFUL LANDSCAPES (Blühende Landschaften) by LUNA PARK/Kosmas Kosmopoulos is a breathless course over green fields of rubble. A wailing, aggressive chorus of human and nonhuman voices sings their disappointment at all the unfulfilled promises made by the West and is struck down by the echo of its own failure. All of it ends in a ceremony of tears. But are the tears real? Or just for show? BEAUTIFUL LANDSCAPES sets out in search of adequate grief and the art and grace of mourning.

Crossing the Freeway, 2024

CROSSING THE FREEWAY is a one-hour dance performance for seven dancers, accompanied by an interactive video installation, into which the audience is invited to walk and change perspectives. CROSSING THE FREEWAY confronts the audience with the emotional-physical level of migration and escape movements triggered by the multiple crises of our days – in particular those caused by the capitalist relations of society and nature in Western industrialized countries. Staged in an abstract form, CROSSING THE FREEWAY develops a minimalist movement language that opens up a wide range of reception and interpretation possibilities for the audience, while still managing to keep an eye on the individual experiences underlying the abstraction.

Sleeping Beauties – Chasing Ghosts, 2024

In SLEEPING BEAUTIES – CHASING GHOSTS six performers go on a hunt for their own dreams and those of the others. On their way through the darkness they encounter all kinds of ghosts, some of them irritatingly strange and some strangely familiar. They give them body and voice, and it can happen that the boundary between dream and reality suddenly has no meaning any longer. Will they awaken from their Sleeping Beauty slumber, and will the world then perhaps be a different place, no longer darkened by the shadow of our wars?

Serrated Edges, 2024, 2025

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.

Rückwärts, 2025

In ‘rückwärts’, choreographer Kosmas Kosmopoulos, together with seven dancers, explores the movement patterns of our society, raising questions such as: Is the goal always ahead of us? Or is the future behind us? Do we approach the goal faster when we move backwards? Where do we end up if we take one step forward and two steps back? With the new dance performance ‘rückwärts’, LUNA PARK focuses on societal disorientation and mirrors the social search movements on stage. In this dance research, it’s about the whole: right and wrong, important or not. ‘rückwärts’ paints a picture of simultaneity and opposition and deals with the question of how to hold on to a goal in the hustle and bustle of everyday life in uncertain times, without losing sight of it. Quickly backwards or slowly forward? Stop? Emergency brake?

Sebastian Mathias, Urban Creatures, 2022

When does digital content become a threat? Which traces do technologies leave in our bodies? In the music theatre and dance performance by the choreographer Sebastian Matthias, visitors encounter imaginative creatures of fear and become part of an actual sound installation. Through the loudspeakers of their mobile phones, they listen to electronic sounds that react to physical proximity and merge into a collective body of sound within the space. On the sandy floor of filter4, a former water filter plant, virtual worlds meet the oldest emotion of mankind.

Samantha Chester, Im Spiegel, 2017

IM SPIEGEL is a work about memory, family and connection. It is a devised dance theatre work that puts the experiences of the dancers at the heart of the work. It is a space that is fleeting, that is shifting and one that questions the idea of recollection, permanence and the things that hold us emotionally.

Nils Christie, Purcell Pieces, 2016

14 sections of Nils Christie and collaborator Annegien Sneep’s inspired and profoundly moving Purcell Pieces set to a recording of the stirring music of Henry Purcell and beautifully performed by fifteen third-year students from both classical and contemporary streams. Within softly-lit black surrounds with dancers in black and grey tones, ladies in black swirling skirts, Christie captures the essence and phrasing of this glorious music expertly, as solos, duos and groups reveal contrasting, riveting sections of liquid movement, canons, articulated pauses, complex angular port de bras, rapid turns, and silences. As the lights fade, a magical shower of shimmering petals falls from above.

2018-2021
Deutsche Oper Berlin – dancer in various performances

2018-2019
Jazz Dance Theater – „Berliner Lüftbruke“

2018-2020
Ballet Blanc – dancer in several classical ballet repertoire

2019-2020
Deutsches Theater Berlin – „Zeiten des Aufruhrs“

2020
Tanja Liedtke Foundation – „Actually, it’s Quite Tasty“

2020-2021
Trauma Bar und Kino – „Catalogue of Disguise“

2021
Impermanence Dance Theater – „In nomine Infinitum et Peregrinantem et Sancti Anatis“

2021-2022
Resident Research Fellow, Gesundbrunnen Grundschule for the creation of „Birds of Paradise“

2019-2024
Tanz Kollektiv Luna Park – „Secret Garden“, „Beautiful Landscapes“, „Crossing the Freeway “, „Sleeping Beauties, Chasing Ghosts“, „Serrated Edges“

2021
Greta Schuster – „To be a Fly on the Wall“

2022
Sebastian Mathias – „Urban Creatures“