Florentina Holzinger - Tanz

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.



Viewer discretion is advised: The performance contains scenes of nudity, self-harm acts, and stroboscopic effects. 

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, 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