Composition: Sebastian Wasner (since 2020), Swing Original Monks (since 2010), Austrian Apparel (2012–2022), Producing: Jungle Jade (2021-2026), Joanish (since 2019) Sound Engineering: Porgy & Bess Vienna (2013–2015), Brut Wien (2014–2024) Performance: Zoë Schreckenberg, Body Architects - Hygin Delimat Education: University of Applied Arts Vienna - Digital Arts (2008–2009), Tone-arts - Audio Engineering Diploma (2011)
selected works:
WENN ES PLÖTZLICH STILL WIRD („when it suddenly goes quiet“) is a solo dance piece that explores the perception and reality of danger and its profound manifestations in human behavior and postures. Inspired by the dark and intense atmospheres of horror adventure computer games such as “The Last of Us”, the focus is on the abstracted depiction of brutal combat. The live soundscape, composed and performed by Sebastian Wasner, and the immersive stage and lighting design by Lukas Ipsmiller create an atmospheric space in which the confrontation between two forces becomes visible through a single body. The absence of a physical counterpart directs the focus to the essential elements of the performance and expands perception by blurring the boundaries between the self and the world and between reality and fantasy. The performer's body becomes the embodiment of its surroundings, eliminating the divisions between inside and outside. It is not perceived as an isolated organism, but as an integral part of its environment.
The solo performance transforms combat movements from action movies and survival horror games into a dynamic dance. Through the magical pull of repetitive choreography, the audience becomes a witness to the unfolding confrontation and is challenged to perceive dance in a new way.
Direction, Choreography and Performance - Zoë Schreckenberg
Live Sound & Music-Composition - Sebastian Wasner
Stage, Light and Costume Design - Lukas Ipsmiller
Acting Coach - Antonia Scharl Outside Eye, Felix Chang, Charline Corcessin
Production Management - Katharina Burgdorf
A co-production by Zoë Schreckenberg and the Hessisches Staatsballett as part of the Tanzplattform Rhein-Main, a cooperation project between the Hessisches Staatsballett im Staatstheater Darmstadt and the Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden and the Künstler*innenhaus Mousonturm, Frankfurt. Special thanks to Hausverwaltung Sohrweide in Darmstadt.
SHOWS
(Work-in-Progress Show) Tanzfestival RheinMain 2024, Staatstheater Darmstadt (Darmstadt, DE 2024)
(Work-in-Progress Show) Goethe Institute Paris (Paris, FR 2024)
© Sebastian Wasner
TRIEB is a dance movie that explores the emotional state of aggression. It shows the inner world of a subject who is unwilling to act on its environment out of feelings, but indulges in fantasies and desires that arise out of its aggressive state.
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FUSS ZUM KOPF ("Foot to Head") deals with the musicality of aggression and explores the impact of intense feelings that sometimes insidiously, sometimes furiously take over our bodies. By zooming in and out, repeating, accumulating and dissecting aggressive behavior in the form of violence, the piece illuminates inner states and searches for expression - states characterized by tension, excitement, frustration, longing, destructive rage and helplessness. Fighting scenes in films serve as a source of inspiration, based on film stunt choreographies. Movement patterns are derived from cinematically staged fight scenes and developed into a dance - a fusion of contemporary dance and film stunts with live electronic sounds.
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„KOHLE SAUER WASSER proposes a way of thinking about movement, a reflection on our influence with the environment.Set within a mass landscape filled with recycled plastic, it questions the relationship between the body, to the material society, to the individual and to the environment, becoming and dissolving.The movement duet is an allegory about how people act and relate to each other, and how that echoes into the environment. Our thoughts and actions influence the world, reflecting on consequences and how that influences identity, community, environment and our futures.“(Dance Cinema)
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TRISTES DÉSERTS – A Robot´s Tale is the filmic-musical result from the baroque- and sci-fi-inspired collaboration between artist Stephanie Winter, tenor August Schram and electronic duo Austrian Apparel. Originating in the idea of an audiovisual realization of M.A. Charpentier's lyrical song "Tristes Déserts" and motivated by the constant interaction of image and sound, a baroque-intergalactic musical short film was developed, in which the boundaries between human and machine, between baroque music and electronic sounds become blurred. In a time dominated by artificial intelligence, the extravagant musical short film tells the story of a lonely baroque robot in a battle between good and evil, recalling the magic of the early cinema.
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Composition: Sebastian Wasner (since 2020), Swing Original Monks (since 2010), Austrian Apparel (2012–2022), Producing: Jungle Jade (2021-2026), Joanish (since 2019) Sound Engineering: Porgy & Bess Vienna (2013–2015), Brut Wien (2014–2024) Performance: Zoë Schreckenberg, Body Architects - Hygin Delimat Education: University of Applied Arts Vienna - Digital Arts (2008–2009), Tone-arts - Audio Engineering Diploma (2011)
selected works:
WENN ES PLÖTZLICH STILL WIRD („when it suddenly goes quiet“) is a solo dance piece that explores the perception and reality of danger and its profound manifestations in human behavior and postures. Inspired by the dark and intense atmospheres of horror adventure computer games such as “The Last of Us”, the focus is on the abstracted depiction of brutal combat. The live soundscape, composed and performed by Sebastian Wasner, and the immersive stage and lighting design by Lukas Ipsmiller create an atmospheric space in which the confrontation between two forces becomes visible through a single body. The absence of a physical counterpart directs the focus to the essential elements of the performance and expands perception by blurring the boundaries between the self and the world and between reality and fantasy. The performer's body becomes the embodiment of its surroundings, eliminating the divisions between inside and outside. It is not perceived as an isolated organism, but as an integral part of its environment.
The solo performance transforms combat movements from action movies and survival horror games into a dynamic dance. Through the magical pull of repetitive choreography, the audience becomes a witness to the unfolding confrontation and is challenged to perceive dance in a new way.
Direction, Choreography and Performance - Zoë Schreckenberg
Live Sound & Music-Composition - Sebastian Wasner
Stage, Light and Costume Design - Lukas Ipsmiller
Acting Coach - Antonia Scharl Outside Eye, Felix Chang, Charline Corcessin
Production Management - Katharina Burgdorf
A co-production by Zoë Schreckenberg and the Hessisches Staatsballett as part of the Tanzplattform Rhein-Main, a cooperation project between the Hessisches Staatsballett im Staatstheater Darmstadt and the Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden and the Künstler*innenhaus Mousonturm, Frankfurt. Special thanks to Hausverwaltung Sohrweide in Darmstadt.
SHOWS
(Work-in-Progress Show) Tanzfestival RheinMain 2024, Staatstheater Darmstadt (Darmstadt, DE 2024)
(Work-in-Progress Show) Goethe Institute Paris (Paris, FR 2024)
TRIEB is a dance movie that explores the emotional state of aggression. It shows the inner world of a subject who is unwilling to act on its environment out of feelings, but indulges in fantasies and desires that arise out of its aggressive state.
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FUSS ZUM KOPF ("Foot to Head") deals with the musicality of aggression and explores the impact of intense feelings that sometimes insidiously, sometimes furiously take over our bodies. By zooming in and out, repeating, accumulating and dissecting aggressive behavior in the form of violence, the piece illuminates inner states and searches for expression - states characterized by tension, excitement, frustration, longing, destructive rage and helplessness. Fighting scenes in films serve as a source of inspiration, based on film stunt choreographies. Movement patterns are derived from cinematically staged fight scenes and developed into a dance - a fusion of contemporary dance and film stunts with live electronic sounds.
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„KOHLE SAUER WASSER proposes a way of thinking about movement, a reflection on our influence with the environment.Set within a mass landscape filled with recycled plastic, it questions the relationship between the body, to the material society, to the individual and to the environment, becoming and dissolving.The movement duet is an allegory about how people act and relate to each other, and how that echoes into the environment. Our thoughts and actions influence the world, reflecting on consequences and how that influences identity, community, environment and our futures.“(Dance Cinema)
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TRISTES DÉSERTS – A Robot´s Tale is the filmic-musical result from the baroque- and sci-fi-inspired collaboration between artist Stephanie Winter, tenor August Schram and electronic duo Austrian Apparel. Originating in the idea of an audiovisual realization of M.A. Charpentier's lyrical song "Tristes Déserts" and motivated by the constant interaction of image and sound, a baroque-intergalactic musical short film was developed, in which the boundaries between human and machine, between baroque music and electronic sounds become blurred. In a time dominated by artificial intelligence, the extravagant musical short film tells the story of a lonely baroque robot in a battle between good and evil, recalling the magic of the early cinema.
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