Tanz

Florentina Holzinger

1 - 3 November

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Information

Time: 8pm

Tickets:
Full Price £21 / Student £18 / Disabled Person £10.50
Pay What You Can performance on 1 November (Recommended Price £20)

Running Time: 135 mins (no interval)

Age Guidance: 18+

Content

Explicit nudity
Self-harming body acts
Blood and needles
Strobe and loud music

This event takes place in person in our Grand Hall.

We have one Pay What You Can performance and two performances with standard pricing.

Florentina Holzinger’s performances enjoy cult status.

Defying genre and smashing gender clichés, ‘TANZ’ dissects traditional dance and theatre narratives. The performers undergo a rigorous “training in action” ballet, learning how to use their skills in a genre of spectacle to penetrate space and gain knowledge about flying.

‘TANZ’ takes early 19th century romantic ballet as a starting point. Using the frame of a ballet class guided by Beatrice Schoenherr, the first ballerina who danced the Sacre de Printemps naked. This spectacular performance incorporates dizzying acrobatics, muscular women’s bodies and martial art fight scenes.

“Slapstick, splatter, surreal scenes, pauses, polyphonic a-capella, high-wire acrobatics on motocross bikes suspended from the fly tower, breathtaking, yet well-articulated stunts result in outstanding theatre” taz.de

“Holzinger´s Masterpiece” Der Standard

PRE EVENT INFORMATION

This event takes place in person in our Grand Hall. This space has step-free access.

If you have booked a ticket you will receive an email from us before your performance detailing important information about your visit.

PERSONAL ASSISTANT/COMPANION TICKETS

If you require the assistance of a friend or helper to attend, we can make a free ticket available for your companion. You can book access companion tickets online or contact the Box Office to book by emailing access@bac.org.uk.

To book a free access companion online:

log in to your account here
go to ‘Other preferences’ and tick ‘I require a personal assistant/companion’.
Choose the performance, date and seats you would like and if you add at least 2 tickets to your basket, then one of these will automatically become free.

PERFORMANCE INFORMATION

Content

Explicit nudity
Self-harming body acts
Blood and needles
Strobe and loud music

All performances will be Relaxed. We invite you to make yourself comfortable and move around if you need to and if you need to leave the performance at any point you will be allowed to return to the space when you feel ready.

PRE-SHOW INFORMATION

VISIT OUR ACCESS PAGE

Concept/Performance/Choreography: Florentina Holzinger
Performance by and with Renée Copraij, Lucifire, Lydia Darling, Annina Machaz,  Netti Nüganen, Suzn Pasyon, Veronica Thompson, Florentina Holzinger, Claire Philippart, Sophie Duncan, Frida Franceschini
Live camera: Josefin Arnell, Jessyca Hauser, Frida Franceschini
Sound design/Sound Technician: Stefan Schneider
Light design/Technical director: Anne Meeussen
Technical Production: Stephan Werner
Technical assistant: Koen Vanneste
Rigger: Dörte Wilroth
Stage design: Nikola Knezevic
Dramaturgy: Renée Copraij, Sara Ostertag
Outside eye: Michele Rizzo, Fernando Belfiore
Music coach: Almut Lustig
Coaching: Ghani Minne, Dave Tusk
Stunt support: Haeger Stunt & Wireworks
Stunt instructors: Stunt Cloud GmbH (Leo Plank, Phong Giang, Sandra Barger)
Theory and research: Anna Leon
Costume advisor/tailor: Mael Blau
Prosthetic and Mask: Students of Wigs, Make-up and Special Make-up Effects for Stage and Screen – Theaterakademie August Everding Munich, Marianne Meinl

Management: Something Great (Berlin – DE) & DANSCO (Amsterdam – NL)
International distribution: Something Great (Berlin – DE)
Production: Spirit
Production manager: Dana Tucker
Executive Production: Laura Andreß
Financial administration: Julia Haas/SMART (Vienna – AT)

Co-produced by: Tanzquartier Wien (Vienna – AT), Spring Festival (Utrecht – NL), Theatre Rotterdam (Rotterdam – NL), Mousonturm (Frankfurt – DE), Arsenic (Lausanne – CH), Münchner Kammerspiele (Munich – DE), Take Me Somewhere Festival (Glasgow – UK), Beursschouwburg (Brussels, BE) deSingel (Antwerp – BE), Sophiensaele (Berlin – DE), Frascati Productions (Amsterdam -NL), Theater im Pumpenhaus (Muenster – DE), asphalt Festival (Düsseldorf – DE).

Supported by: O Espaço do Tempo (PT), Fondation LUMA (FR) and De Châtel Award (NL)

Thanks to: CAMPO Gent, ImPulsTanz – Vienna International Dance Festival, Eva Beresin, Stefanie Leitner, Tanz-Archiv MUK Wien, Stimuleringsfonds Creatieve Industrie, Mochi Catering Vienna, Andres Stirn.

Funded by: Cultural Department of the City of Vienna, Arts and Culture Division of the Federal Chancellery of Austria, Performing Arts Fund NL and Norma fonds NL

With the support of: the Republic Austria Federal Ministry for Arts, Culture, the Civil Service and Sport, Section IV – Arts and Culture

We want our shows to be as accessible to as many people as possible.

We offer tickets to most shows on a Pay What You Can basis throughout the year.

Tickets for Council Chamber performances in 2026 start at £9.50, and we have recommended pricing to help you choose a price that works for you.

We know that ticket price is a huge barrier for some. If you can afford to pay the recommended price or more, choosing to do so supports those that can’t. It makes it possible for us to continue to offer Pay What You Can and welcome those who otherwise wouldn’t be able to attend.