FLESHDANCE

In the organizer's words:

// TRIGGER WARNING: Loud noises and flickering lights (stroboscopic effects). The performance addresses the themes of sexual abuse and cannibalism, among others, and works on the video level with footage of raw meat.
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The documentary performance is dedicated to the meaning of the body - the flesh - in today's society. Three performers navigate through live music, live video and pan-European interviews with protagonists from the porn industry, the church, the food industry, and many more. Fascination meets disgust, theory meets practice, body meets consciousness: Individuals on data carriers, concepts of the unthinkable, perception as the basis of the mind, the vulnerability of the human body, the non-locatability of human thought in a binary logic, the question of the possibility of disembodied existence, the mind will and the flesh desire.

With the co-presence of the materials, the live performance and the audience, a space is created which enables the simultaneity of the seemingly incommensurable, allows perspectives to collide and searches for fractures as well as interfaces between concepts.

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// English

The documentary performance deals with the meaning of the body - the flesh - in today's society. Three performers navigate through live music, live video and pan-European interviews with protagonists from the porn industry, the church, the food industry, and many more. Fascination meets disgust, theory meets practice, body meets consciousness: Individuals on data carriers, concepts of the unthinkable, perception as the basis of the mind, the vulnerability of the human body, the non-locatability of human thought in a binary logic, the question of the possibility of disembodied existence, the will of the spirit and the desire of the flesh. With the co-presence of the materials, the live performance and the audience, a space is created which enables the simultaneity of the seemingly incommensurable, allows perspectives to collide and searches for ruptures as well as interfaces between concepts.

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concept, development, performance: Robin Plenio, Sophie Krause / performance, development: Terrence Xavier Johnson / video: Sophie Krause / composition, live music: Robin Plenio / costume: Marie Akoury / dramaturgy: Lena Fritschle / postproduction: David Simon Groß / technical direction: Eugen Geisler / lighting: Lennart Beese / production management: Laura Wiesinger / interview partners:inside: Adrineh Simonian (Arthouse Vienna), Anonymous, Brother Thomas, Erica Petrillo, Kris (kyborgismus.cz), Jan Helge Solbakk, Liza Pinelli, Maria 2.0, Michael Sens, Nastija Jijolic (Plesni klub Zebra), Norbert Denef, Veronika Krajmerová (Dvanás duí)
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A production by boikott in cooperation with Ballhaus Ost. Supported by Fonds Darstellende Künste with funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media within the framework of NEUSTART KULTUR.

The guest performance is made possible by the Ilse und Dr. Horst Rusch-Stiftung and supported by the NATIONALE PERFORMANCENETZ Gastspielförderung Theater, funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media, as well as the Ministries of Culture and the Arts of the Federal States.