Florentina Holzinger’s Étude for Disappearing. Composition for eight bodies, five harps and a car melts together musical elements and stunt actions.

A stunt is an extreme form of physical activity that requires precise, technical training.

According to Frédéric Chopin, “an étude is a musical composition of considerable difficulty, designed to provide practice material for an instrument and its player.

Musical form and stunt actions alike here become teaching tools for the bodies on site – those of the performers and musicians as well as their respective instruments. Yet, they are designed to “always please the audience in concert.”

The performance takes place on the parking lot next to a former paper mill which will be demolished this summer. One of the oldest building complexes in the area, the historic brick building from the 1790s will be replaced by yet another block of high-priced office and residential buildings that now shape the area.

Besides this, the venue holds various personal memories for DISAPPEARING BERLIN.

Concept and performance by Florentina Holzinger
Concept and scenography by Nikola Knezevic
Sound design by Stefan Schneider, Urska Preis

Harps: Urska Preis, Liz Fréon, Babett Niclas, Marleen Stempel, Lotte Krüger
Performers: Sibylle Fischer, Linnéa Tullius, Maria Helgath, Anni Kumlehn, Netti Nuganen, Audrey Merilus, Xana Novais, Annina Machaz and guests

Sound technician: Michael Hoppe
Stunt coordination: Joe Toedling
Drifting car: Haeger Stunts
Management: Something Great

DISAPPEARING BERLIN 2021
Artistic direction by Marie-Therese Bruglacher
Project Management by Anja Lindner