A Year Without Summer

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Austrian choreographer Florentina Holzinger brings her transgressive, radical practice to DE SINGEL for her sixth appearance. Her work cuts across ballet, pop culture, and high art while testing the body’s limits with blood, nudity, exhaustion, and explicit depictions of sex and self-harm. Here, a stark visual language—glass box, trampolines, an inflatable torso, and dense haze—replaces previous extravagance. The piece examines longevity culture, medical promises, and techno-utopian fantasies in a world shaped by AI, robotics, and bio-engineering. By pushing enhancement to the edge of perversion, it stages the tension between the dream of eternal life and the certainty of death.