screen play
screen play
A traveler encounters landscapes impacted by the climate crisis to recalibrate the body as a site of entangled forces.
Between 2022 and 2023, Hannah Schillinger encounters landscapes impacted by the climate crisis in Germany, investigating the forces and resonances interweaving these places and her own body. Amongst them are the disappearing glacier „nördlicher Schneeferner“ on the Zuspitze, the burned forests of Saxon Switzerland and the coal mine „Welzow Süd“ in Brandenburg.
360° video documentations of those meetings, physical remnants and body memory become the source material for „screen play“, Hannah Schillinger’s first work after graduating from the MA Choreography at HZT Berlin. In dialogue with video, sound and light, Schillinger explores the body as a virtual screen and traveller. Navigating through co-existing micro worlds, she plays with transmitting and transmuting images and forces. Sculptural fragments, movement experiences, emotional and reflective spaces become activated, until spheres begin to blur and body and space become reconfigured.
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Eine Reisende begegnet von der Klimakrise gezeichneten Landschaften, um den Körper als Ort verstrickter Kräfte zu rekalibrieren.
Zwischen 2022 und 2023 besucht Hannah Schillinger von der Klimakrise betroffene Landschaften in Deutschland, um die Kräfte und Resonanzen zu erforschen, die diese Orte mit ihrem eigenen Körper verbinden. Dazu gehörten der schwindende Gletscher "nördlicher Schneeferner" auf der Zugspitze, die verbrannten Wälder der Sächsischen Schweiz und der Braunkohletagebau "Welzow Süd" in Brandenburg.
360°-Videodokumentationen dieser Begegnungen, physische Überreste und Körpererinnerungen bilden das Ausgangsmaterial für “screen play”, Hannah Schillingers erste Arbeit nach ihrem Abschluss des MA Choreographie am HZT Berlin. Im Dialog mit Video, Sound und Licht erkundet Schillinger den Körper als virtuellen Bildschirm und als Reisenden. Durch koexistierende Mikrowelten navigierend, spielt sie mit der Übertragung und Umwandlung von Bildern und Kräften. Skulpturale Fragmente, Bewegungserfahrungen, emotionale und reflexive Räume werden aktiviert, bis die Sphären verschwimmen und Körper und Raum neu konfiguriert werden.
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Choreography, Performance, Videorecordings: Hannah Schillinger
Videodesign, Stagedesign, Costume: Louis Caspar Schmitt
Music Composition: Vagelis Tsatsis
Light Design: Vito Walter
Outside Eye, Dramaturgical Support: Lina Gomez, Alica Minar, Hanako Hayakawa, Stella Horta, Marie Hufnagel, Katja Wiegand, Brad Nath, Maud Buckenmeyer
Outside Eye, Mentoring: Meg Stuart
Eine Produktion von Hannah Schillinger in Koproduktion mit DOCKART.
Die Recherchen wurden gefördert vom Fonds Darstellende Künste und dem Hilfsprogramm DIS-TANZEN des Dachverband Tanz Deutschland aus Mitteln der Beauftragten der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien im Rahmen von NEUSTART KULTUR.
Mit Unterstützung der „DIGITAL BODY Residency“ sowie des Residenzförderprogramms „Made in Berlin“ der Lake Studios Berlin.
Dates:
8|9|10|11 June 2023: Premiere @ Dock11 Berlin
8 November 2023: Science week @ Einstein Center Digital Future Berlin
7 December 2023: Gallery “Changing Room” Berlin
7|8|9 March 2024: Dock11 Berlin
Travel Journal
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meeting the coal mine Welzow Süd where it is so clearly tangible, sensible, feelable, touchable and visible how the fossil fuel industry is exploiting, dominating, disrupting and destroying this body of land. what they leave behind, is a wasteland. when encountering this place I experienced lots of anger, frustration, grief and shock, which I gave expression to on site and which I am processing again in real time on stage. this meeting made me especially reflect on how the human body and its resources - just as the body of the land - have been subject to harm, abuse, exploitation and violence under the domination of patriarchic forces for the last decades and centuries. i am dreaming of the recalibration and queering of masculine and feminine forces in order for them to be rebalanced. this queering is what I attempt and play with in my own body when I am dancing.
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meeting the glacier „nördlicher Schneeferner“ on Zugspitze Mountain. Nördlicher Schneeferner is one of the last four glaciers in Germany and in about 10 years it won’t be there any more. It was the second place I met on my journey and very important for me to visit this place, because it is close to where I grew up and I really wanted to meet it before it is gone. As a child I spent a lot of time in the mountains, mostly hiking, and through my family lineage I feel a deep connection to the northern alps. Yet I had never been on top of Zugspitze before. It is very expensive to go, purely capitalized for touristic purposes, which is why locals usually don’t go. But this time I did. When on the plateau of the mountain, I hiked away from the people and found a quiet place where I spent about an hour embedded in the snowy, rocky landscape. There, I investigated the peculiar terrain, accompanied by freezing low temperatures and a stunning view. But what stunned me the most is that, even in these heights of 3000m, there are actually plants growing under the blankets of snow and rocks!
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meeting Fresdorfer See, a lake in Brandenburg that dried out as a consequence of the climate crisis. Meeting this piece of land was, in contrast to other places, a very joyous encounter. I saw and sensed the dry lake to be host and home for various new plants and animals, such as young trees, wild pigs and a red bird I had never seen before. I also found some trash - or treasures - on the ground that must have sunken to the bottom of the lake earlier and now got revealed again. I was walking through meter high reeds, of which some were standing and some were formed into little nests on the ground by the wind and the animals inhabiting them. The atmosphere there was very light and the place invited me to play and fool around while being fully embedded in it. The encounter with Fresdorfer See gave me a lot of hope and trust in the incredible ability of ecosystems to adapt and transform in response to changing circumstances.
