Trailer for Tanz
CONTENT WARNING: Nudity, Blood
Florentina Holzinger, an award-winning choreographer and performance artist, brings her most recent work, TANZ, to NYU Skirball this spring. The performance takes inspiration from ballet, and artists from the ages of twenty to over-eighty take the stage in a two act ballet d’action body horror that has left audiences across the world in both shock and awe. Throughout the show, performers master the use of their bodies to participate in ritual and flight, making commentary on discipline, chaos, and the gendered body.
Trailer for Tanz
CONTENT WARNING: Nudity, Blood
Recommended readings to get you in gear for the show.
Kathrin Heinrich, Mavericks Florentina Holzinger and Milo Rau push theatre beyond its limits, 2024
Rosemarie Brucher, Art Comes from Skill, 2019
Bryan Turnock, Body Horror, 2019
Sascha Ehlert and Florentina Holzinger, Florentina Holzinger: Preparing for an Emergency, 2022
“The choreographer speaks to Matthew McLean about ‘TANZ’, ‘Ophelia’s got Talent’ and her plans for the future”
“Tanz is the aftermath of an almighty crash between romantic ballet and body horror.”
“This stunt-heavy transmogrification of Romantic ballet stages a series of ascents and descents: descending into nudity; rising in flight; raising the house lights; descending into the forest.”
“Austrian performance artist Florentina Holzinger’s exploration of ballet’s dark side is not just provocative but surprisingly thoughtful and hilarious”
Check out Skirball’s 2020 Prep School page from Holzinger’s production Apollon, the second show in Holzinger’s ongoing series.
An Interview with Holzinger from the “Mind Culture Podcast” on her practices regarding a production titled Divine Comedy, from 2021.