A traveler encounters landscapes impacted by the climate crisis to recalibrate the body as a site of entangled forces.

Between summer 2022 and spring 2023, Hannah Schillinger embarked on small journeys throughout Germany to encounter landscapes impacted by the climate and energy crisis, investigating the forces and resonances interweaving these places and her own body. Among others she visited 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 encounters, physical remnants and body memory form the initial material for screen play, Hannah Schillinger’s first work after completing her MA Choreography at the 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 the spheres blur and body and space are being reconfigured.

Hannah Schillinger is a choreographer, dancer and artist based in Berlin.
She studied BA Modern Theatre Dance at the Amsterdam University of the Arts, danced in the dance company ICK Amsterdam and completed an MA in Choreography at HZT Berlin. During her master studies she was a scholarship holder of the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes and presented the works vacuum (2021) and runners (2022). In 2022 she was granted with the artistic youth development fund of GSE Berlin.
Influenced by postmodern, European-American dance lineages and embedded in a western society imprinted by late capitalism, her works deal with the ecological and energy crisis as well as virtuality and absence. In her movement practice, the body is the starting point to investigate perception, imagination and experience in movement and form. Exploring quantum physical principles in dance and choreography is the current focus of her choreographic practice. Through ongoingly deconstructing and transmuting patriarchic patterning, she fosters the cultivation of queerfeminist, regenerative ways of interacting with oneself, other human beings and the environment. Schillinger’s works are created collaboratively and move between dance, theater, and visual art.
hannahschillinger.com

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