In Florentina Holzinger’s intervention at the opening of the Wiener Festwochen, ostentatious vehicles and daredevil performers put on a dazzling exhibition. In this gleaming fleet of vehicles, body and machine have seemingly become symbiotic. Stunts, crash tests, or an occult fitness studio: here the choreography sets the rhythm with physical abandon in sync with the mechanical gearing.

But to what end does this dystopian procession toil away ? Is it a frantic pedalling within the hamster wheel of disciplined self-optimisation ? Or a warm up session in anticipation of ruthless resistance ?

Florentina Holzinger, excels at continually blurring the boundaries between high culture and enertainment. Grandly and mightily, her dancing street proceeds across the Rathausplatz to the music of Soap&Skin and, later, as a video installation through the city itself.

Concept/Choregraphy Florentina Holzinger

Music Soap&Skin

Artistic collaboration Renée Copraij

Set design Nikola Knezevic

Sound design Stefan Schneider

Perfromers/collaborators Marie Blochnig, Sibylle Fischer, Maria Helgath, Annina Machaz, Audrey Merilus, Xana Novais, Courtney Robertson, Julia Rutigliano, Linnea Tullius