The Solo “spin off” is based on the graduation piece „runners“ by Hannah Schillinger at HZT Berlin, which premiered in June 2022 with a group of 7 dancers at Reinbeckhallen Berlin. This „virtual sculpture“ devotes itself to a large circular object. What played a supporting role in the original piece, becomes a main character here. Together, the dancer and the object explore transforming loops of exhaustion into cyclical processes of regeneration and resourcing. They navigate through spheres of labour, care, fiction and play, dive into the poetics of attention, circularity and subtle surprise and open a space for contemplative recalibration.

Hannah Schillinger (she/they) is a choreographer, director and dance artist.
Born 1996 in the south of Munich/Germany, Hannah started her professional dance education at the IWANSON International School in Munich, 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 premiered the works „vacuum“ (2021) and „runners“ (2022). In 2023 she premiered her first independent work, the solo “screen play” at Dock11 Berlin and assisted in the Opera department of Theater Bremen. Currently, she is part of “studio 2.2” with Meg Stuart, Claire Vivianne Sobottke, Roger Sala Reyner, Mor Demer, Descha Daemgen and Louise Hojer. In 2024, she devotes herself to two commissioned works: the solo “spin off”, which is based on “runners” and was shown first at the Kesselhaus of the KINDL Gallery Berlin, and the cross-disciplinary collaboration “Resonant Bodies” with jazz drummer Nathan Ott, which premiered in November 2024 at Dock11 Berlin.

Hannah’s works deal with themes of the present such as ecology, virtuality and activism. Her movement language is rooted in European-American modern and postmodern dance lineages, with classical and pop cultural influences. In her practice, a metamodern body is the starting point for investigating the expression and materiality of attention, experience, emotion and imagination in relation to space and time. She works with choreographic arrangements that she calls “virtual sculptures” and develops compositions based on a quantum-physical principles. Schillinger’s works are collaborative, interdisciplinary and move fluidly between genres such as dance, theater and visual art.

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