




Photographs: TANZ © Nada Zgank, Eva Würdinger
TANZ
by Florentina Holzinger
A ballet class under Beatrice Schönherr direction, the first ballerina to dance Le Sacre de Printemps naked (John Neumeier's Le Sacre, 1972), provides the framework of Florentina Holzinger’s TANZ. The performers undergo rigorous training in "action ballet", the so-called "sylphic studies". In collective rituals, they learn to master their bodies and minds, and they acquire supernatural powers, such as flying. A quest for perfection in an ephemeral world, during which the gross is transformed into the sublime. In an operatic setting, brutal parodies of sensationalist images emerge, as seen in ballet, comedy and pornography. The gaze regime finds reflection in the character of a porn producer who documents the performance. With a cast of women between the ages of twenty and eighty, all of whom have different backgrounds in dance, TANZ raises the question of the legacy of dance. How can the cult of beauty inherent in this tradition be reconciled?
TANZ is the third part of Florentina Holzinger's trilogy Recovery, Apollon and TANZ. This trilogy investigates how the body is cultivated, shaped and transformed through different physical disciplines.
TANZ is the third part of Florentina Holzinger's trilogy Recovery, Apollon and TANZ. This trilogy investigates how the body is cultivated, shaped and transformed through different physical disciplines.
CREDITS
Concept/Performance/Choreography Florentina Holzinger
Performance by and with
Annina Machaz
Evelyn Frantti
Laura Stokes
Lucifire
Lydia Darling
Maria Netti Nüganen
Renée Copraij
Suzn Payson
Trixie Cordua
Veronica Thompson
Video design/Live camera
Josefin Arnell
Sound design/Live sound
Stefan Schneider
Light design/Technical director
Anne Meeussen
Stage design
Nikola Knezevic
Stage assistant
Camilla Smolders
Dramaturgy
Renée Copraij
Sara Ostertag
Outside Eye
Michele Rizzo
Fernando Belfiore
Theory and research
Anna Leon
Coaching
Btissame Amadour
Ghani Minne
Dave Tusk
Music coach
Almut Lustig
Stunt support
Haeger Stunt & Wireworks
Stunt instructors
Stunt Cloud GmbH (Leo Plank, Phong Giang, Sandra Barger)
Production
Spirit
Management
Something Great
DANSCO
Co-produced by
Tanzquartier Wien
Spring Festival
Theater Rotterdam
Mousonturm
Arsenic
Münchner Kammerspiele
Take Me Somewhere
deSingel
Beursschouwburg
Sophiensaele
Frascati Productions
Asphalt Festival
Theater im Pumpenhaus
Distribution
Something Great
Supported by
O Espaço do Tempo
Fondation LUMA
De Châtel Award
Executive Production
Laura Andreß
Financial administration
Julia Haas/SMART
Thanks to
CAMPO
ImPulsTanz
The students of Wigs, Make-up and Special Make-up Effects for Stage and Screen
Theaterakademie August Everdin
Mochi Catering
Eva Beresin
Tanz-Archiv MUK Wien
Funded by the
Cultural Department of the City of Vienna
Performing Arts Fund NL