Florentina Holzinger - A Divine Comedy
Fri 12 Nov - Sat 13 Nov in Antwerp and on other dates around Europe...
Trashy performance art, cabinet of curiosities or neck-breaking stunt show? The work of the Viennese enfant terrible Florentina Holzinger is all of these things. The choreographer is skilled at testing the body to its limits in her feminist adaptations of ballet classics La Sylphide and Apollon Musagète. However the coronavirus crisis made Holzinger aware of the flip side of this transgression. For A Divine Comedy she simultaneously positions heaven and earth in the here and now. Together with an unusual cast of stuntwomen, actresses and dancers, Holzinger explores a new spirituality of the 21st century. Three dance tutors coach the performers throughout the performance and demonstrate a Dance of Death. But is this dance not just as good as life itself? The body leads to questions about death, life and transcendence. Dance as a preparation for our own mortality. Holzinger throws up pressing questions about how we approach the end of life.
Notes: The show contains explicit scenes of violence, self-mutilation and nudity, performers smoke cigarettes on stage, and a stroboscope is used.
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