MIME

MCB-DV-8506

Recovery

RECOVERY revolves around struggle as a process of healing and the stage as an arena, in which questions of coping with trauma, a fresh start and female support are raised. It all started with Florentina’s accident during a performance of Silk in Norway, when she crashed three meters to the ground. The work Recovery, inspired by this experience and the title of American rapper Eminem’s seventh studio album, is the product of a lengthy recovery period. Florentina aims at transforming herself into a warrior on both a spiritual and a physical level. Now, evening by evening, she enters the ring to defy the art world, fear and trauma. She prepares for every show as if it was a fight. Thus, each instalment of Recovery is characterized by physical healing and starting fresh, by the recovery of what seemed lost and by the recovery of artistic data. The performance emerges from the conviction that the only art worth being made is art that can heal. Florentina Holzinger is inspired by George Balanchine’s legendary ballet Agon, created in 1957. The work’s title means competition and is considered a highlight of Balanchine’s examination of Igor Stravinsky’s music. Florentina created her own Agon which was shown at festival ImPuls-Tanz 2014 and Recovery is based on that piece. Recovery was shown at theatres and festivals all over Europe.

/ CAST & CREDITS /

CONCEPT: Florentina Holzinger

PERFORMANCE: Florentina Holzinger, Btissame Amadour, Clara Saito, Eva Susova, Lenneke Vos, Orinta van der Zee

SOUND DESIGN: Stefan Schneider

DRAMATURGY, GUIDANCE: Vincent Riebeek, Renée Copraij, Sara Ostertag

Produced by Frascati Producties in coproduction with brut Wien.

Funded by Creative Europe, Life Long Burning, die Kulturabteilung der Stadt Wien and the Performing Arts Fund NL.

The festival “The Future is F*e*m*a*l*e*” is a production by SOPHIENSÆLE.

Funded by the Capital Cultural Fund.

// DEUTSCH //

Katalysator für Florentina Holzingers Tanzstück RECOVERY war ein schwerer Unfall während einer Aufführung, bei dem sie aus drei Metern Höhe zu Boden stürzte und auf den eine langwierige Genesungszeit folgte. Nun verwandelt sie die Bühne in einen Boxring, in dem Heilungsprozesse in einen Wettkampf übersetzt werden, der Verlorenes wiederherzustellen versucht – sowohl körperlich als auch mental. Kampfsport kollidiert mit Elementen des klassischen Balletts. Der körperliche Extremzustand wird als empowernde Strategie der Angst- und Trauma-Bewältigung zelebriert. Inspiriert von Igor Stravinsky, George Balanchine und Eminems gleichnamigem Studioalbum fordert sie in jeder Aufführung das Wertesystem der Kunstwelt zum K.O.-Kampf heraus – für weibliche* Solidarität und den Mut zu Neuanfängen!