PICKNICK
Screening at Moving Body Festival (MB#9) Critical Moves
Picnic is a dance music video that shows four dancers in historical and traditional costumes in a picnic setting.
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SUN 27.10.2024
7:00pm — 8:00pm
Varna, Bulgarien
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A large banquet hall shrouded in fog. The dancers Camilla Fiumara and Magdalena Dzeco are sitting on a table in the foreground of the picture. They are busy organizing the food and drinks. They are wearing long-sleeved dresses that seem to date from the early 20th century and their hair is braided into a long plait. Between them, in the distance, the silhouette of Sakurako Awano can be seen through the fog. She is wearing a traditional Bavarian dress. By Florian Krauß
Picknick is a dance music video that shows four dancers in traditional costumes in a picnic setting. The scenery is set to a song by the late rapper XXXtentacion and recorded as a one-shot. While two dancers meet to eat, open a bottle of champagne and toast each other, the other two move through a minimalist choreography that starts with taking a breath and speaks of sadness, speechlessness, emptiness and despair. Shifting the focus again and again, the camera shows the dancers trapped in a non-place and a non-time: an undefined, impersonal space and an apocalyptic-contemporary future. And asks how we treat each other today and what prospects there are for communication and cooperation with one another.
Concept, choreography: Verena Billinger, Sebastian Schulz.
Dance, performance: Sakurako Awano, Magdalena Dzeco, Camilla Fiumara, Challenge Gumbodete.
Camera: Florian Krauß.
Camera assistant, post-production: Felix Bausch.
Collaboration on costumes: Sandra Li Maennel.
Costume assistance: Souheila Benhassen, Lea Sommer.
Production management, project organization: Sarah Schäfer.
Project organization: Emma Atzenroth.
Set runner: Paula Veenema.
Production: Billinger & Schulz.
Co-production: Künstler*innenhaus Mousonturm Frankfurt am Main in the frame of Tanzplattform Rhein-Main, FFT Düsseldorf.
The dance film Picknick 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.
