How can the cult of beauty inherent in the tradition of dance be reconciled with the cruelty to which female bodies are exposed through this form of art? Third part of a trilogy about body as a spectacle and its disciplining, TANZ by Austrian Florentina Holzinger focuses on the legacy of classical dance.
Performers between the ages of twenty and eighty, under the direction of the first ballerina to dance Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring naked, back in 1972, undergo rigorous training in a ballet d’action. In an operatic setting, the frantic quest for perfection in an ephemeral world comes alive through brutal, parodic images.
Suitable for audiences 18+
Viewer discretion is advised: The performance contains scenes of nudity, self-harm acts, and stroboscopic effects.
PROLOGUE | PRE-SHOW TALKS
Young theatre and dance researchers introduce audiences to the performances
For many of us, a Festival performance is a fascinating, unexplored universe waiting to be discovered. What is the starting point of a performance? What “school” does it fall into? What can be inferred about the process of art making through the style of a particular performance?
Through this new practice, launched in the summer of 2021, the Athens Epidaurus Festival, in cooperation with the Theatre Studies Department of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, as part of the Master’s programme “Greek and World Theatre: Drama, Performance, Education”, invites post-graduate students – theatre researchers and dance experts – to delve into the Peiraios 260 performances and facilitate access to this creative world for audiences. Young researchers and experts will whet festival-goers’ appetites and provide them with theoretical tools in order to give them a better understanding of the performance they are about to enjoy.
Due to the ongoing pandemic, all performance dates are subject to change
Concept – Performance – Choreography Florentina Holzinger
Performance by and with Renée Copraij, Beatrice Cordua, Evelyn Frantti, Lucifire, Lydia Darling, Annina Machaz, Netti Nüganen, Suzn Pasyon, Laura Stokes / Steffi Wieser, Veronica Thompson, Josefin Arnell, Florentina Holzinger
Video design – Live camera Josefin Arnell
Sound design - Sound technician Stefan Schneider
Lighting design - Technical director Anne Meeussen
Technical assistant Koen Vanneste
Stage design Nikola Knezevic
Stage assistant Camilla Smolders
Dramaturgy Renée Copraij – Sara Ostertag
Outside eye Michele Rizzo – Fernando Belfiore
Musical coaching Almut Lustig
Coaching Ghani Minne – Dave Tusk
Stunt support Haeger Stunt & Wireworks
Stunt instructors Stunt Cloud GmbH (Leo Plank, Phong Giang, Sandra Barger)
Theory and research Anna Leon
Costume advisor and tailor Mael Blau
Prosthetics and masks Students of Wigs, Make-up and Special
Make-up Effects for Stage and Screen - Theaterakademie August Everding Munich, Marianne Meinl
Management Something Great (Berlin – DE) & DANSCO (Amsterdam – NL)
International distribution Something Great (Berlin – DE)
Production Spirit
Executive production Laura Andreß
Financial administration Julia Haas/SMART (Vienna – AT)
Co-production Tanzquartier Wien (Vienna – AT), Spring Festival (Utrecht – NL), Theatre Rotterdam (Rotterdam – NL), Mousonturm (Frankfurt – DE), Arsenic (Lausanne – CH), Münchner Kammerspiele (Munich – DE), Take Me Somewhere Festival (Glasgow – UK),Beursschouwburg (Brussels, BE), deSingel (Antwerp – BE), Sophiensaele (Berlin – DE), Frascati Productions (Amsterdam – NL),Theater im Pumpenhaus (Muenster – DE), asphalt Festival (Düsseldorf – DE)
Supported by O Espaço do Tempo (PT), Fondation LUMA (FR), De Châtel Award (NL)
Thanks to CAMPO Gent, ImPulsTanz – Vienna International Dance Festival, Eva Beresin, Stefanie Leitner, Tanz-Archiv MUK Wien, Stimuleringsfonds Creatieve Industrie Mochi Catering Vienna, Andres Stirn
Funded by Cultural Department of the City of Vienna Arts and Culture Division of the Federal, Chancellery of Austria, Performing Arts Fund NL and Norma fonds NL
With the support of the Republic Austria Federal Ministry for Arts, Culture, the Civil Service and Sport, Section IV – Arts and Culture
VIP 25€ • ZONE Α 20€ – STUDENTS / 65+ / ARTIST UNIONS 16€ • ZONE B 15€ – STUDENTS / 65+ / ARTIST UNIONS 12€ • PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES / UNEMPLOYMENT CONCESSIONS / ART SCHOOL STUDENTS 5€
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Audiences are required to display a valid vaccination certificate or disease certificate, in accordance with current health protocols, in order to be admitted to the performance venues.
Audience buses to and from Peiraios 260 are available.