The trigger warning: nudity, fire, stunts. The place: The parking lot at the Olympic Stadium. The concept: opera rituals, crash tests, experimental music. Excess and spectacle in front of fascist architecture? What sounds like the new play by Berlin’s current enfant terrible of the theater scene, Florentina Holzinger, is of course actually her new play. “Scrap Etude: An Etude for Extinction” is the name of the “musical composition for several percussion instruments, cars and burning bodies”, which will be performed for the first and only time on 30.08.23 at 21h. It is another of the musical experiments in public space, of which Holzinger and her ensemble have already realized several in and around Berlin since 2020. In parking lots, lakes, streets and squares, in places of hustle and bustle, traffic and transition. This time, she and her performers will be supported sonically by experimental composer Katharina Ernst and sound designer Stefan Schneider. And so, once again, movement, performance and dance, theater, concept and technology are explored, expanded and renewed, body and technology, machines and the sensual are brought together, dis- and reassembled into their individual parts. A hybrid spectacle. Not for the whole family, though. The recommended minimum age is 18 years and animals should rather stay at home. Instead, the entire Berlin art scene will once again be in attendance. On a parking lot in Spandau. This alone will be a spectacle without equal — and could not be staged by anyone else.
Text: Hilka Dirks / Photos: Katharina Ernst / Credit: Étude for Disappearing ; Silke Briel; Schinkel Pavillon; Leon Hoellhumer
Florentina Holzinger & Team: Schrott Etüde: Eine Etüde für das Aussterben, Coubertiniplatz, 14053 Berlin–Spandau; map
Mi 30.08.2023 entry from 20h. You can get tickets here.
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