Antifragil

An urban dance theatre performance about the (anti-)fragility of (inter)human relations.

How do we react to the uncertainties and complexity of our time? Things have no constancy in our consumption society, they break and they are replaced again and again. Interhuman relationships have become more dynamic, everything seems possible. What is it though, that we aspire to? Love attachments break, traverse moments of crisis, find new strengths and points of reference. Community is being pushed to the background in favor of a growing individualism. How do we deal with this constantly precarious situations? Do we become breakable and replaceable subjects? Do we look for new Values? Do we craft our personal super-me? Do we look for forms of antifragility? Are we forced to become better and stronger all the time?

„SILK Fluegge” deals with these questions in this particular dance theatre performance project. The young performers investigate their relationship to themselves, their stories and their experiences of vulnerability, observe their own reactions, in order to find their own version of antifragility. They lead the audience through a tangle of situations. With humor and surprising skills in the area of urban styles like breakdance, house and popping, they react to the constant demand of taking decisions and they let constantly new configurations of connections arise from their community.

Duration: 60 minutes

Director, Concept, Choreography: Silke Grabinger Production Management, Choreographic Assistant: Olga Swietlicka Dramaturgical Advisor: Angela Vadori Vocal Coach, Video Cut - DVD: Magdalena Schlesinger Light Design, Video Projection: Peter Thalhamer Graphic Design, Photography: juliachange Dance, Performance: Veronika Cimborova, Michaela Hulvejová, Valentin Kokalko Matej Kubuš, Jerca Rožnik Novak, Bartłomiej Sawicki Second cast: Elias Buttinger, Oleksandr Korolyov

A production of SILK Fluegge supported by Linz Kultur, Land Oberösterreich, BKA und ImPulsTanz – Vienna International Dance Festival. With a friendly support of IDA Institute of Dance Arts / Anton Bruckner Privatuniversität Linz, Werkstatt am Hauptplatz and Tabakfabrik Linz.

“Wit and humour draw thourgh the mix of audacious breakdance interludes and theatrical performance. You start liking quickly this sassy, freakish gang that incarnates unbreakability in a truly refreshing way: the courage to fall, trusting others”