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Gisèle Vienne und Florentina Holzinger – Sophiensæle | Freies Theater in Berlin

Program

Saison 26/27

Gisèle Vienne und Florentina Holzinger

Gisèle Vienne reconsiders our perceptual frameworks and invents artistic languages in order to pave the way for structural societal change. Vienne’s creations, both on stage and within her visual practice, are developed together with dancers and actors, and are often animated by anthropomorphic figures and puppets to explore the sensuality, rage, and creativity of counterculture in all its subversive potential. Through bringing together her philosophical influences and formal experiences, her work on stage and otherwise seeks to overturn dominant orders and to invent new artistic forms that explore the possibility of encoding the world differently.

Florentina Holzinger’s dance performances are driven by the idea of identity, sexual and physical transgression. Inspired by Viennese Actionism, body art and bodybuilding, but also by classical ballet, cabaret and circus, she deconstructs hegemonic images of femininity in her shows. This is also reflected in the diverse cast of her company, which brings together performers of different origins, generations and abilities. In addition to performers with dance training, she is joined on stage by stunt women, sex workers, piercers and martial arts artists.

Kerstin Stakemeier has been teaching since the early 2000s in the fields of political, art, cultural, and media theory as well as in art history (among others, Freie Universität Berlin, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, Universität der Künste Berlin, Leuphana Universität Lüneburg). A continuous focus of her teaching is the question of artistic and political practice, its material, its subjects, its scope, its limits - historical as well as contemporary.

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