Matta Matta

It is sport and it is dance
It is square, yet it bends
It is jumping and then landing, it is falling and again standing.

Matta Matta is a performance about safety and taking a risk. Three dancers get lost in an adventurous landscape of gym mats, that fit together like puzzle pieces and fall apart again.

Dansstationen Malmö invited Jasper Džuki Jelen and Mojra Vogelnik Škerlj to choreograph a performance for young audiences; so they decided to make it specifically for the gymnastic hall.
After more than 140 performances, a longer ‘2.0 version’ of the performance was made in 2019 together with Dansstationen and the Danish DanseHallerne, which tours extensively in Denmark and Sweden. From the summer of 2021, The100Hands’ own cast will also play the show in the rest of Europe.

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‘Jasper Džuki Jelen and Mojra Vogelnik’s choreography is lively, wild, playful and competitive. Time and again, the performers develop dance-like dialogues and duels in the process, impressing the enthusiastic children’s audience with their daring dance moves.

Matta Matta 2.0 is a dance piece for young audiences, which holds the children’s attention from beginning to end, convinces with powerful physicality, and creates choreographic moments of surprise with seemingly simple tricks – great!’

Lilith Borchert / review Tanznet (in German)

CREDITS

Choreography: Jasper Džuki Jelen and Mojra Vogelnik-Škerlj I Dance: Bryan Atmopawiro, Alkis Barbas, Myrthe Marchal I Dramaturgy: Moos van den Broek, Mikaêl Orozco I Music composition: Jorg Schellekens I Costumes: Esther Eveline Sloots I Photography: Karin Jonkers I Co-production: The100Hands, Dansstationen, Dans Hallerne I 2016