BASTARD SPESIAL! Florentina Holzinger & Vincent Riebeek

Florentina Holzinger and Vincent Riebeek gave us a very successful workshop last year – now they’re coming back! Are you?

Free your mind the rest will follow.

Following last year’s touching performance Kein Applaus für Scheisse, Florentina Holzinger and Vincent Riebeek are this year showing us the performances Spirit and Wellness as a part of Bastard 2014. Just as in their first piece, the duo is guided by a powerful sense of generosity: generous in their love for each other, and generous in their love of the audience.

In this workshop, Holzinger and Riebeek will transfer their choreographic work on the body of a dance class. You will warm up to get the energy flowing and the muscles pumping, followed by guided moving, with the purpose to connect and heal ourselves and the universe. You will formulate poetry in a physical way and share the essence of being to create unforgettable art together now. You will joyfully bounce off the frustrations of not-knowing and dive into the abyss of universal truth and knowledge through charging the exotic idiot inside of yourself.

The workshop is open to dancers, actors and others with professional performing background. Register by sending an e-mail with name and background to Eivind Haugland within thursday the 11th of September.

About Spirit About Wellness

About Florentina Holzinger and Vincent Riebeek

Florentina Holzinger trained in dance and performance in Vienna before she moved to Amsterdam to study choreography at the School for New Dance Development (SNDO) in the Amsterdamse Hogeschool voor de Kunsten. She received education in composition, dance and choreography and performed in works by Deborah Hay, Benoit Lachambre, Ann Liv Young and Jeremy Wade. Florentina received the danceWEB Europe Scholarship in 2008 and in 2011 at ImPulsTanz Vienna. Two years later her diploma project Silk got awarded the Prix Jardin d’Europe at the very same festival. Her collaboration with Vincent Riebeek resulted in three projects – Kein Applaus für Scheisse, Spirit, and Wellness – that are currently being shown at various international performance festivals around Europe. Holzinger’s newest work Agon had its first showing this summer and will find it’s continuation with the premiere of Recovery/Agon in autumn 2014.

Vincent Riebeek started dancing hip-hop and street dance in his pre-teens. He is currently graduating from the School for New Dance Development in Amsterdam. During his education he had a chance to work with a.o. Benoit Lachambre, Simon Aughterlony, Ibrahim Quraishi, Hooman Sharifi, David Zambrano, Gabriel Smeets, Robert Steijn, Renee Copraij, Bettina Masuch, David Zambrano, Jeremy Wade, Meg Stuart, Deborah Hay and Janine Durning. He was a recipient of the DanceWeb Scholarship at Impulstanz Vienna in 2010. His work is shown at various theatres in Belgium, Germany, The Netherlands, Austria, Switzerland, Slovenia and New Zealand and he received residencies at Impulstanz Vienna, Workspace Brussels, Frascati Amsterdam and PACT Zollverein.

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