Florentina Holzinger:
Apollon Musagète

For Apollon Musagète Florentina Holzinger invites Apollon’s muses to collide with all American side show acts. Theall-female cast passionately conquers Balanchine's neoclassical ballet quartet Apollon Musagète. The story centres around Apollon, the Greek god of art. In pointe shoes and with Olympic weights on their shoulders, the choreographer and her muses throw that poster boy off his throne with a smile on their face. Through this humorous and furious destruction of a classical narrative Holzinger addresses the myth of this supposedly perfect woman, the artist herself. These perfect women – what do they even want? Nourished by performance history, Holzinger explores our dualistic relationship to perfection and beauty, lust and disgust, projection and delusion, destruction and construction as well as the rupture between high art and entertainment culture.

This performance contains scenes that some viewers may find disturbing.

Florentina Holzinger studied choreography at the School for New Dance Development (SNDO) in  the Amsterdamse Hogeschool voor de Kunsten. She currently tours her work on performance festivals around Europe. Her performance Kein Applaus fuer Scheisse, a collaboration with Vincent Riebeek brought international attention to their work. Their newest collaboration Spirit premiered in October 2012 at Campo/Genth. Silk is a Solo Florentina created when graduating from the SNDO in May 2011. The performance got awarded the Prix Jardin d’Europe at Impulstanz 2012.

by Florentina Holzinger with Renée Copraij, Evelyn Frantti, Florentina Holzinger, Annina Lara Maria Machaz, Xana Novais, Maria Netti Nüganen & Stephan Schneider sound design Stephan Schneider dramaturgy Sara Ostertag & Michele Rizzo scenography Nikola Kneževićcoaching Btissame Amadour advice Manu Scheiwiller & Fernando Belfiore techniqueBram Geldhof, Anne Meeussen & Maarten Van Trigt

Produced by CAMPO in co-production with Frascati Producties (Amsterdam), La Bâtie – Festival (Geneva), Steirischer Herbst (Graz), Münchner Kammerspiele, Mousonturm and SOPHIENSÆLE. Supported by MA7 – Kulturabteilung der Stadt Wien. Thanks to Sina Christmann, Philippe Marchal, Alister Mazzotti, Ghani Minne, Blaze. Media partner: taz.die tageszeitung. Part of the dance campaignWatch Me Dance.

Funded by the Senate Chancellery for Culture and Europe.

Foto © Radovan Dranga