{"id":996,"date":"2023-08-20T19:12:58","date_gmt":"2023-08-20T19:12:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/utethon.com\/?p=996"},"modified":"2025-05-23T09:46:33","modified_gmt":"2025-05-23T09:46:33","slug":"florentina-holzinger-nackte-tatsachen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/utethon.com\/en\/florentina-holzinger-nackte-tatsachen\/","title":{"rendered":"Florentina Holzinger: Nackte Tatsachen"},"content":{"rendered":"

Why \"Ophelia Got Talent\" is the best dance performance of the year<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Florentina Holzingers<\/strong> performances have been hotly debated for years. For some, she is the most radical talent in the contemporary dance scene, for others, she is an amateur who only knows how to create a spectacle. Choreographies such as Tanz, \u00c9tude for an Emergency<\/em> or Ophelia’s Got Talent<\/em> are definitely spectacular. While there's some classical pointe dancing, the main focus is on wrestling on moving cars, swinging on meat hooks, and diving in glass pools. Holzinger and her dancers injure themselves, and blood flows. The Austrian artist, who describes herself as an \"adrenaline junkie,\" is into risky stunts, offbeat sideshow acts, and trashy pop culture. She also flirts a bit with the legacy of the Viennese Actionists. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Oh yes, and everyone performs naked on stage. This is perhaps the most remarkable thing about Holzinger's choreography. While nude scenes are no longer uncommon on German-speaking stages, the way she transforms the exposed female body into a center of power, a symbol of feminist self-empowerment, is unique. Anyone looking for voyeuristic peep-show excitement will be disappointed. The women on stage don't strike sexy poses; they perform powerful, acrobatic feats; bare skin is their natural work attire. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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With their self-confident nakedness, the women demystify erotic clich\u00e9s<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Which doesn't mean that as a viewer, you don't still stare in fascination at the exposed bodies, study pubic hair styles, admire toned muscles, and register wrinkles and moles. Because the performers act so confidently and without any shame, their nakedness becomes the ultimate power suit. Being naked doesn't necessarily mean being defenseless. Exposing breasts and vulvas makes women more powerful than they already are. It demystifies erotic clich\u00e9s. And it broadens our perspective, which is still bombarded with far too many false images of what the perfect body should look like. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Holzinger\u2019s women are self-confident subjects, not projections of the male gaze<\/em>. They're deconstructing theater and dance history written by men \u2014 Dante, Shakespeare, and Stravinsky. The public reaction shows how provocative this still is. There was a scandal at the Termi Festival in Italy. The conservative press claimed Holzinger was making pornography. The curator who had invited her to the theater festival was fired.<\/p>\n\n\n\n