MATTHEW ROGGERS: Urban senses
Performance game in English language.
Where are you? How do you feel here? What do you perceive? Any particular memories or associations arising? How would you describe it here right now?
Urban Senses is a group game, an expedition to seek out secrets within our environment like any other. At different locations, we roll the die, follow instructions and come closer to what is actually happening around us. By slowing down and focusing our perception, the encounter with seemingly ordinary surroundings is experienced anew. Urban Senses is an attempt to discover the miracles under the skin of the profane, including the ugly and the surprisingly beautiful.
Credits
concept and performance by Matthew Rogers and Jan Dubsky
Bio
Matthew Rogers (1978) grew up in the Tidewater region of Virginia, where as a teen he was inspired to dance watching musicals on VHS . In 2002, he received a BFA in Dance and Choreography at Virginia Commonwealth University and from 2003 to 2012 he lived in NYC where he studied and worked with many choreographers- including Johannes Wieland, Amber Sloan, Jon Kinsel, PearsonWidrig / DanceTheater and the notorious Tere O’Connor. In 2010 he had the great fortune of being invited to re-perform the works of Marina Abramovic at MoMA as part her retrospective, ‘The Artist is Present’. Now he lives between Hamburg and Prague work ing within the free scenes of Hamburg, Bern, Dresden, Prague and throughout Slovakia. In his own work, Matthew focuses on a touch, voice, movement and presence, exploring the relations hip and connectivity of Self and Community.
Jan Dubský lives in Berlin and Brandenburg and works as an independent designer. With roots in architecture and design, he explores playful and experimental approaches to space and bodily perception – always with the aim of fostering collective processes and collaboration. In 2019, he co-founded the building collective UM:BAU, initiating and supporting collaborative construction projects. Since 2024, he has been running the community space Open Eck, inviting people to engage in shared projects. / www.umbau-luckenwalde.de, www.jandubsky.de