M.A.R.E.’s artistic research is rooted in exploring the relationship between human beings and the ecosystem. The projects presented below represent the cornerstones of this journey, where dramaturgy and performance languages are directly born from the encounter between scientific observation, field expeditions, and artistic creation.
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Echo
Between Species
: NOW STAGING :
A performance by Marcozzi Contemporary Theater.
Description
Fearless is a dialogue between the breath of a whale and the breath of a human.
Inspired by the expedition that Daniela Marcozzi carried out with Guadalupe Villalobos and Ana Sofia Morales in Baja California (Mexico), Fearless dives into the radical blue, where the movements and breaths of grey whales make humans conscious about their own fears and inspire them how to deform the shapes of fear.
The last fear to deform is the fear of not being immense. Music is the vital current that forms and deforms the shapes of fear.
Due to the very nature of the performance, some audience members are invited to sit in a circle, inside the performative space.
The performance unfolds itself through a dynamic dialogue between in and out of the Fearless circle, through breath, music and movements.

Scientific Context
Every year in October, gray whales migrate from the coast of Alaska southward to the west coast of Mexico. Between December and March they give birth to their calves in the calm waters off the coast of the Baja California Peninsula. Sheltered from the turbulent water of the open sea, the whales teach their young how to swim and how to breathe.
Whales have voluntary respiration. They are conscious of their breath.They consciously modulate their breathing according to environmental conditions and their immediate needs.
The most fundamental fear that we humans have is the fear of not breathing.
In February, 2023, a human traveled from Portugal to Baja California, Mexico, to encounter gray whales with the intention to learn how to breathe.
Concept:
Daniela Marcozzi
Performance:
Daniela Marcozzi and Hannes Buder
Assistant to the dramaturgy and co-direction:
Cecile Rossant
Live cello:
Hannes Buder
Music and sound design:
Didier de la Rose
Voice-over:
Cecile Rossant, Daniela Marcozzi
Costume:
Susanne Kasper
Camera:
Daniela Marcozzi, Guadalupe Villalobos and Ana Sofia Morales
Video projection:
Sebastian Steins



Premiere
June 30th, 2023, h 8pm
Expedition Metropolis Theater, Berlin
Performances
November 2023,
Expedition Metropolis, Berlin
December 2023,
Embros Theater, Athens




Work in progress about respiration by Marcozzi Contemporary Theater, Guadalupe Anaya Villalobos, Ana Sofía Morales.
Description
You have a voluntary respiration and a circular horizon.
I, human, have an involuntary respiration and a horizontal horizon.
We meet in the current in and out the water, breathing the same air.
I play with forces bigger to me, timeless, inevitable, unconditional.
I inhale and exhale and joy bursts in the encounter. close.
You teach me to breathe and I am no longer afraid of not breathing. Of dying.
current.
I inhale with other humans, rocks, fish, whales, algae and crustaceans. I exhale.
Time knows no time. It is circular.
A wheel of the world, in the current.
On the courting wheel, playing, air in and air out.
Giving voice to the breath of the sea.
Premiere
Sábado 11 Marzo 2023,
Espacio In-Tent, Ciudad de México, México
Photo taken during the creative expedition. Credits: Ana Sofia Morales del Río
Photo taken during the creative expedition. Credits: Anna Pla-Narbona
A performance by Daniela Marcozzi.
Description
The solo-performance 8 Times Wilder is a dialogue between a veterinarian and a beached whale. The veterinarian is confronted with the cruelty of a delicate decision: whether or not to kill a beached whale.
And if she must kill the whale, then how?
But why kill the whale?
To keep her from suffering?
On what basis can we make such a decision?
In the play, the protagonist experiences the contradictions in one of the many binary worldviews shaping our society: the scientific, positivist, explicable, logical mindset on the one hand, and the magical, spiritual, carnal part, governed by inexplicable forces, on the other.
The woman embodies these contradictions: her body and her story become the place where these extremes meet and act.
The protagonist does not surrender to the need for a simple and immediate answer to the whale-killing dilemma; she dives deep into its complexity, and it is in this very intricate complexity that she finds unconditional love for herself and for whale: an abyss where her soul can still be mirrored.
Where do we bring our soul to recognize itself if not in the belly of the whale?

Artistic support and co-direction:
Tony De Maeyer
Music:
Luis De Cicco
Costume:
Susanne Kasper
Voice over:
Melissa Derio, Daniela Marcozzi
Lights:
Paolo Grazzi, Daniela Marcozzi
Artwork of the poster:
Nino Eliashvili
Post-production of the poster:
Adam Engler
Funded by NEU START KULTUR BERLIN and GVL.
Supported by Theater Expedition Metropolis Berlin with an artistic residency.




Premiere
April 23th 2022, h 19:30
Festival New Narrative,
Expedition Metropolis Theater, Berlin
Performances
June 2nd, 3th 2022, h 20:00,
Expedition Metropolis Theater, Berlin
October 1st 2022,
We Love Story, International Festival of Storytelling and Performing Arts,
Chania, Greece
March 28th 2025, h 20:00,
Expedition Metropolis Theater, Berlin











































