Wellness

Wellness is a dance production by Florentina Holzinger & Vincent Riebeek/CAMPO (AT/NL/BE).

Holzinger and Riebeek have collaborated in choreographing it.

Information

(Objekt ID 41631)
Object type Production
Premiere September 12, 2014
Produced by
Coproducers Forum Freies Theater, Theater im Pumpenhaus, , Künstlerhaus Mousonturm, ,
Audience Adults
Language English
Keywords Theatre
Running period September 12, 2014  
Duration 65 minutes
Website Avant Garden
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At the website of Avant Garden the following, among other things, is written about Wellness:

"Wellness is a production that is inspired by the extreme emphasis of exercising and body images of today, of beauty contests, drag queen communities and pop cultural ambitions to change the world. All the wellness methods and treatments of the world are examined during the performers' progress towards reaching their goals and fulfil their full potentials. Militarist crossfit exercises for perfectly tight muscles in all the right places are needed, as are holistic, philosophical, psychotherapeutic and meditation exercises for inner strength.What is their ultimate goal? A perfect symbiosis of a healthy body and a sane mind. And a beautiful appearance. 

With the beauty contests and the world of its contestants among the most important inspiration sources for the project, the performers aim to achieve the appearance of Miss Universe herself. This also goes for the men onstage, and because of this, the world of drag queens also enters as an at least as important source of inspiration. At an early stage thoughts are led to Yanis Marshall's choreography with men dressing in women's clothesto the song Bright Lights by Lana Del Rey, and the cross-dressing and drag queen inspiration is never far away.Without preparing for a discussion on gender."

Co-producers: FFT (Düsseldorf), Theater Im Pumpenhaus (Münster), Gessnerallee (Zürich), Mousonturm (Frankfurt), SPRING Performing Arts Festival (Utrecht), SPIELART Festival (Munich).

SOURCES:

Import from the Scenekunst.no list of openings 19.08.2014

Avant Garden, avantgarden.no, 19.08.2014, http://www.avantgarden.no/program/wellness/

Contributors (9)
Name Role
Florentina Holzinger – Concept/Idea
Vincent Riebeek – Concept/Idea
Florentina Holzinger – Choreography
Vincent Riebeek – Choreography
Christian Bakalov – Performer
Renée Copraij – Performer
Florentina Holzinger – Performer
Andrius Mulokas – Performer
Vincent Riebeek – Performer
Performance dates
September 12, 2014 20:30 – Olavshallen, Lille sal (Bastard - Trondheim International Performing Arts Festival) National premiere, Norway