Sea Change

On Thursday July 1, 2021, MIF 21’s opening night, Boris Charmatz presented a daring new dance work designed for Deansgate and featuring more than 150 Greater Manchester residents and 8 professionnal dancers among the cast. Sea Change is a huge human jigsaw, and it’s down to the audience to put together the pieces and complete the picture.

Sea Change fills a city-center street with a chain of professional and non-professional dancers, each performing and repeating a section of the choreography on the spot. Rather than the work moving on in front of audiences, it is up to them to ‘move on’ the work: walking or even running past waves of dancers to animate the action into their very own living flipbook.

“ With Sea Change, we will be arranging our choreographic line in a street – like a moving line crossing the city. [...] We are going to work on this with groups of amateur dancers from Manchester and professionals, creating a moving landscape in which the choreographic development of the piece is gradually revealed to the moving spectator. » - Boris Charmatz

A new edition of Sea Change will be presented in Wuppertal on May 21st, 2023 with more than 170 amateurs dancers and with the dancers of Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch and with the actors of Wuppertaler Bühnen: Schauspiel.

A new edition of Sea Change is planned for 21 May 2023 in Wuppertal with 200 dancers (170 amateur dancers, dancers from Tanztheater Wuppertal and actors from Wuppertaler Bühnen: Schauspiel).