Side Step 2024: Florentina Holzinger - TANZ

A sylphidic reverie in stunts with excessive attentiveness to the self. TANZ by Florentina Holzinger at Dance House Helsinki’s Erkko Hall. TANZ is the third part of the trilogy: Recovery, Apollon, TANZ. The trilogy deals with notions of practice through training of different physical disciplines on stage- focusing on investigations of how the body is cultivated, shaped and transformed and on the transmission of experience. TANZ takes early 19th century romantic ballet as a starting point. It uses the frame of a ballet class guided by Beatrice Schoenherr, the first ballerina who danced the Sacre de Printemps naked (John Neumeier, 1972). In an operatic set up brutal parodies of established images of excitement found in ballet, comedy and pornography are made in order to be watched from afar and close. This industry of gaze finds its translation in the work of a porn producer who documents the performance from within. With an all-female cast of twenty to eighty years old performers who represent different dance backgrounds, TANZ poses the question what ‘dancing the lineage’ means and how to reconcile with tradition in the territory of the nonverbal and its relationship to beauty. Concept, performance, choreography: Florentina Holzinger Performance by and with: Josefin Arnell, Renée Copraij, Beatrice Cordua, Evelyn Frantti, Lucifire, Luna Duran, Annina Machaz, Netti Nüganen, Suzn Pasyon, Steffi Wieser, Laura Stokes, Veronica Thompson, Lydia Darling, Jessyca R. Hauser, Florentina Holzinger Video design, Live camera: Josefin Arnell, Jessyca R. Hauser Sound design, Live sound: Stefan Schneider Light design, Technical director: Anne Meeussen Stage design: Nikola Knezevic Dramaturgy: Renée Copraij, Sara Ostertag A production by: SPIRIT Part of Zodiak – Center for New Dance's Side Step Festival.