CAR WALK
Screening at Moving Body Festival (MB#9) Critical Moves

In Car Walk, a group of performers dances with a car in an empty parking lot. With the handbrake unfastened, they push the heavy body of the vehicle back and forth as it becomes an unlikely dance partner and stage. Step by step they begin to explore the movement options made possible by the car – climb up, over and through their unlikely teammate, push, pull the car, hang from the roof – and become bolder, riskier, increase the danger of their actions. Images and affects surrounding cars and mobility flash up: departure, pollution, desire, freedom, accident, death... And open up a space for thinking about movement, logistics and mobility, our relationship to technology, transport and energy.

Concept, choreography: Verena Billinger, Sebastian Schulz.

Dance, Performance: Thomas Bauer, Magdalena Dzeco, Challenge Gumbodete, Nadja Simchen.

Camera: Florian Krauß.

Camera assistance, post-production: Felix Bausch.

Collaboration on costumes: Sandra Li Maennel.

Costume assistance: Souheila Benhassen, Lea Sommer.

Director of photography, driver, project organization: Sarah Schäfer.

Project organization: Emma Atzenroth. Set runner: Paula Veenema.

Motion research collaboration: Gal Fefferman.

Production: Billinger & Schulz

Co-production: Künstler*innenhaus Mousonturm Frankfurt am Main in the frame of Tanzplattform Rhein-Main, FFT Düsseldorf.

The dance film Car Walk was developed in the multi-part project Tanzabend/N.N. which was funded by: NATIONAL PERFORMANCE NETWORK –STEPPING OUT, funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and Media within the frame work of the initiative NEUSTART KULTUR. Assistance Program for Dance., Hessian Ministry for Science and Research, Arts and Culture, Culture department of the federal state capital Düsseldorf. With kind support: Alte Oper Frankfurt. The artistic work of Verena Billinger and Sebastian Schulz is multi-annually funded by the City of Frankfurt am Main as well as by the conception fund of the federal state of North-Rhine Westphalia.