<blockquote>
“Feminism has, of course, always been an exercise in science fiction” </blockquote>

<pre><code> — Laurie Penny 
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Austrian choreographer and performance artist Florentina Holzinger’s latest, wildest work about the body-as-spectacle, and its disciplining. 
A ballet class under the direction of Beatrice Cordua, the first ballerina to dance La Sacre du printemps naked (John Nuemeirer’s La Sacre, 1972) provides the framework. From there, the quest for perfection gets stripped down, pulleyed up from the scalp, haunted by witches, hoisted onto flying motorcycles and strung out, abattoir-style. 
Since its premier in Vienna, TANZ has stirred walkouts and fainting, along with its accolades and rapturous applause. It’s part gross-out comedy, part shock-horror show, part ghost story, part superhuman dance work. It glides by wearing the carcass of the most graceful of artforms, and asks: how can the cult of beauty inherent in this tradition be reconciled?
FLORENTINA HOLZINGER : POST-SHOW TALK
Join Florentina Holzinger in conversation with dancer choreographer Amrita Hepi as they discuss the ideas behind Holzinger&#39;s work.
WHEN
Friday 9 June, 15 minutes after the show
WHERE
Playhouse

A series of performers are on stage. They are all naked, some rising motorbikes whilst suspended and some working a pulley system to suspend another performer by the hair who hangs suspended in a piroutette pose

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A series of performers are on stage. Some stand in ballet poses in point shoes, another is suspended from a harness. 

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Two performers are on stage, they are striking powerful positions holding their own body strength. They are both naked. One is wearing knee pads.

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A series of performers are on stage. Some stand with their arms out wide, another is on the floor. The performers are naked and there is visble blood.

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Two performers are on stage, one lays down with her hand pressed to the cheek of another who sits up almost over the other performer. 

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Performer sits atop a suspended motorbike. The are naked and wear pointe ballet shoes that are covered in blood. 

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A performer clings onto a suspended motorbike whilst naked. They are wearing blood stained point ballet shoes. 

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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 (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).

Funded by the 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.

WARNINGS | This work contains nudity, blood (fake and real blood), needles, self-injuring body acts, live urination, strobe lights and simulated smoking (real smoking). Fake blood may splash from the stage and affect the first few rows. 
Allocated Seating | If you have specific seating request, let us know in the notes box at checkout and our team will do their best to accommodate. 
MORE TICKETS | Tickets also available <a href="https://www.artscentremelbourne.com.au/">via Arts Centre Melbourne. </a>

TANZ

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Nearest accessible tram stop: Stop 14, St Kilda Road.

DISTANCE COVERED BY PARTICIPANT

Under 200m.

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