Corps à Corps

TERMINE:
25./26./27. FEBRUAR 2016 / 20:30

Saskia Hölbling interweaves the ideas of the French philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy into her new production ?Corps à Corps? and with her contemporary dance performance deals with red-hot issues of world events in an abstract and intensive form.

“Our billions of images show billions of bodies – as bodies have never been shown before. Crowds, piles, melees, bundles, columns, troops, swarms, armies, bands, stampedes, panics, tiers, processions, collisions, massacres, mass graves, communions, dispersions, a sur-plus always an overflowing of bodies, all at one and the same time, compacted in masses and pulverizing dispersals, … abandoned to the structuring agitation of their endless, generalized, departure …?

choreography, staging: Saskia Hölbling, dance, choreography: Adriana Cubides, Ardan Hussain, Jan Jakubal, Leonie Wahl, dramaturgy: Florian Tröbinger, music, composition: Wolfgang Mitterer, music assistant: Moritz Cizek, puppets, scenography and costume: Gudrun Lenk-Wane, lights: Gerald Pappenberger, management: Simon Hajós

A DANS.KIAS production.
With financial support from the Cultural Department of Vienna and the Austrian Federal Chancellery for Arts and Culture