Extinction Etude
By Florentina Holzinger
SCHROTT-ETÜDE - (SCRAP ETUDE) / An ETUDE for Extinction
A musical composition for multiple percussion, cars and burning bodies.
According to Frédéric Chopin, “an étude is a musical composition of considerable difficulty, designed to provide practice material for an instrument and its player.” Yet, they are designed to “always please the audience in concert”.The scene for Schrott-Etüde (Scrap Etude): An Etude for Extinction is the parking lot at Olympiastadion.
Based on a composition by experimental composer Katharina Ernst and sound designer Stefan Schneider, this Etude once more melts together musical elements and stunt actions. A mixed cast of stunt women, musicians and performers explore new contexts for representation in dance and the possibilities of a ‘technical’ theatre in a series of joint operatic rituals and orchestrated crash tests.
Since 2020, Florentina Holzinger and her team have been organizing musical experiments in public spaces. These so-called ‘Etudes’ take place on lakes, parking decks, streets and on squares – predominantly places of accelerated transfer, urban crossings, and the motorized sphere. The composition sets the rhythm in harmony with bodies and mechanical gears.
In front of the Olympia Stadion Berlin, August 2023
Choreografie, Concept, Direction: Florentina Holzinger
Performance: Sophie Duncan, Fibi Eyewalker, Florentina Holzinger, Annina Machaz, Audrey Merilus, Mina Tomic, Alena Tödtling, Linnéa Tullius, Natasha Vergilio
Stage Design, Concept: Nikola Knežević
Composition and Sound Design: Katharina Ernst, Stefan Schneider
Drums and Percussion: Katharina Ernst, Anja Müller
Conductor: Sibylle Fischer
Technical Direction: Stephan Werner
Technical Support: Ivan Bartsch, Camilla Smolders, Daniela Kuich, Juan Arata, Maxime Pierre Decombat, Manuel Henne, Olivier Kerdiles, Jonathan Noonan, Jack Skehan
Stunt Coordinator: Joe Tödtling / Stunt Factory
Stunt Coordination and Driver: Steven Korth, Fabian Goll / Korth Brothers
Stunt-Safety: Christian Angres, Raffael Armbruster, Ivan Forlani, Patrick Richter
Pyro Technician: Stefan Walther
Project Consulting: Marie-Therese Bruglacher
Location Scouting: Iris Czak
Production: neon lobster / Giulia Messia, Sarah Parolin, Katharina Wallisch, Tammo Walter
Management and international distribution: neon lobster / Giulia Messia, Katharina Wallisch
A production von Florentina Holzinger und neon lobster in Koproduktion mit Schinkel Pavillon e.V.
The series Études was funded by Berliner Senatsverwaltung für Kultur und Gesellschaftlichen Zusammenhalt – Spartenoffene Förderung.
A musical composition for multiple percussion, cars and burning bodies.
According to Frédéric Chopin, “an étude is a musical composition of considerable difficulty, designed to provide practice material for an instrument and its player.” Yet, they are designed to “always please the audience in concert”.The scene for Schrott-Etüde (Scrap Etude): An Etude for Extinction is the parking lot at Olympiastadion.
Based on a composition by experimental composer Katharina Ernst and sound designer Stefan Schneider, this Etude once more melts together musical elements and stunt actions. A mixed cast of stunt women, musicians and performers explore new contexts for representation in dance and the possibilities of a ‘technical’ theatre in a series of joint operatic rituals and orchestrated crash tests.
Since 2020, Florentina Holzinger and her team have been organizing musical experiments in public spaces. These so-called ‘Etudes’ take place on lakes, parking decks, streets and on squares – predominantly places of accelerated transfer, urban crossings, and the motorized sphere. The composition sets the rhythm in harmony with bodies and mechanical gears.
In front of the Olympia Stadion Berlin, August 2023
Choreografie, Concept, Direction: Florentina Holzinger
Performance: Sophie Duncan, Fibi Eyewalker, Florentina Holzinger, Annina Machaz, Audrey Merilus, Mina Tomic, Alena Tödtling, Linnéa Tullius, Natasha Vergilio
Stage Design, Concept: Nikola Knežević
Composition and Sound Design: Katharina Ernst, Stefan Schneider
Drums and Percussion: Katharina Ernst, Anja Müller
Conductor: Sibylle Fischer
Technical Direction: Stephan Werner
Technical Support: Ivan Bartsch, Camilla Smolders, Daniela Kuich, Juan Arata, Maxime Pierre Decombat, Manuel Henne, Olivier Kerdiles, Jonathan Noonan, Jack Skehan
Stunt Coordinator: Joe Tödtling / Stunt Factory
Stunt Coordination and Driver: Steven Korth, Fabian Goll / Korth Brothers
Stunt-Safety: Christian Angres, Raffael Armbruster, Ivan Forlani, Patrick Richter
Pyro Technician: Stefan Walther
Project Consulting: Marie-Therese Bruglacher
Location Scouting: Iris Czak
Production: neon lobster / Giulia Messia, Sarah Parolin, Katharina Wallisch, Tammo Walter
Management and international distribution: neon lobster / Giulia Messia, Katharina Wallisch
A production von Florentina Holzinger und neon lobster in Koproduktion mit Schinkel Pavillon e.V.
The series Études was funded by Berliner Senatsverwaltung für Kultur und Gesellschaftlichen Zusammenhalt – Spartenoffene Förderung.