Holzinger ꟾ Theatertreffen 2025
Based on Paul Hindemith’s 1922 short work Sancta Susanna – in which a nun confronts the violent punishment of sexual self-determination – Florentina Holzinger’s SANCTA bridges Bach and Rachmaninoff with metal, noise and contemporary compositions to reclaim the gore of Catholic mass and address the violent history of the Church.
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SANCTA by Florentina Holzinger
SANCTA by Florentina Holzinger
SANCTA by Florentina Holzinger
SANCTA by Florentina Holzinger
SANCTA by Florentina Holzinger
SANCTA by Florentina Holzinger
SANCTA by Florentina Holzinger
SANCTA by Florentina Holzinger
SANCTA by Florentina Holzinger
SANCTA by Florentina Holzinger
Sancta – Bell-Etude
Sancta
Countering the religious discipline and punishment of (female*) sexuality – abortion, homosexuality, sex work, pleasure – SANCTA stages sexual sensations and practices as a pathway to not-only-religious ecstasy. In a quest for magic and transcendence, body artists twist the religious topoi of scarification, penetration, transformation; show magicians propose their take on the Bible’s miracles; the Sistine Chapel turns into a climbing wall, opera into rock musical, God into robot, Jesus Christ into Jesus Christ Superstar.
Mass turns into spectacle and, in Florentina Holzinger’s words, real magic needs to happen. Spiderlike and dark, loud and excessive, funny and redemptory, SANCTA is the trigger warning for mass.
NOTE
Attendance of the performance is recommended from a minimum age of 18 years
TRIGGERWARNING
Please note: Sancta contains
* self-injurious acts * blood * needles * strobe lights * explicit depiction or description of physical or sexual violence
(GERMAN / ENGLISH SUBTITLES)
Additional information
Participating artists
Saioa Alvarez Ruiz
Philipp Amelungsen
Andrea Baker
Zoe Bassi
Fernando Belfiore
Born In Flamez
Gibrana Cervantes
Renée Copraij
Joschka Crusius
Johanna Doderer
Sophie Duncan
Blathin Eckhardt
Fibi Eyewalker
Jasko Fide
Paige A. Flash
Fleshpiece
Moira Garee
Ronny Hornig, Gravity Stunts
Miron Hakenbeck
Josephinex Ashley Hansis
Jan Havers
Christiane Hilmer
Florentina Holzinger
Emma Juliard
Katharina Wallisch & Giulia Messia - neon lobster
Nikola Knežević
Max Kraußmüller
Sara Lancerio
Judith Lebiez
Laura London
Annina Machaz
Anne Meeussen
Giulia Messia
Malin Nilsson
Xana Novais
Netti Nüganen
Sara Ostertag
Olivia Oyama
Sarah Parolin
Xavier Perez
Nadine Neven Raihani
Felix Ritter
Michele Rizzo
Emma Rothmann
Aki Schmitt
Stefan Schneider
Marit Strindlund
Joe Toedling, Stunt Factory
Veronica Thompson
Odette T. Waller
Katharina Wallisch
Dörte Wilfrorth
Cornelia Zink
Luz de Luna Duran
Silke von Patay
Maja Čule
Florentina Holzinger (Autor/in)
August Stramm (Libretto)
Fernando Belfiore (Dramaturgie)
Dates
May 2025
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