Apollon
Florentina Holzinger / CAMPO
Six women tackle the neoliberalist cult of the body with all their performative brilliance and vicious physical virtuosity. Apollon limbos between the aesthetics of an occult fitness-studio, a cyborg-bullfight and neoclassical ballet.
Florentina Holzinger combines fin de siècle freakshow and 1960s live art, offering a new perspective on the rupture between high art and entertainment culture. 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?
This performance contains scenes that some viewers may find disturbing.
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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 Knežević coaching Btissame Amadour advice Manu Scheiwiller & Fernando Belfiore technique Bram Geldhof, Anne Meeussen & Maarten Van Trigt production CAMPO coproduction Frascati Producties/Amsterdam, La Bâtie – Festival de Genève, steirischer herbst/Graz, Münchner Kammerspiele, Sophiensaele/Berlin, Mousonturm/Frankfurt with the support of MA7 - Kulturabteilung der Stadt Wien thanks to Sina Christmann, Philippe Marchal, Alister Mazzotti, Ghani Minne & Blaze