About the show

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“Hybrid” (working title) places the experience of loss, the search for new paths, and the creative shaping of transition at its center.
Starting from biographical ruptures and the physical challenges of plastic ice, performer Elisa Siegmund explores which potentials for unfolding can emerge in seemingly limited and unsettling situations. She balances between the past and her “dream of flying” – the weightless ease on ice and blades – a present between different worlds, and a view toward new possibilities.

Projections, visual elements, and an experimental sound design that enters into a live dialogue with the performer open the stage as a transdisciplinary space at the intersection of new circus, contemporary ice skating, dance, and theatre. A floor made of plastic ice becomes a symbol for how we deal with changed foundations in life.

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Technic(s)
Skating, contemporary dance, object manipulation

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About the company

Elisa Siegmund founded the interdisciplinary research and performance project IceDanceTheater-Fusion as a format in which ice skating is understood exclusively as an art form. In her work, she combines impulses from contemporary dance with the special gravitational forces on ice, which produce, among other things, an apparent weightlessness, speed, and rapid rotations. In the development of new movement forms on frozen water as well as on sustainable synthetic ice, the focus is on the moving body, the ice skates, the materiality of the respective ice, and the space surrounding the ice surfaces.

What makes it special – ice that is not ice…
In my performance I use synthetic ice, which does not require energy, water consumption, or complex cooling technology. Against the backdrop of climate change, resource scarcity, and a global energy crisis, synthetic ice symbolizes for me the challenge of dealing with changed foundations and developing new perspectives.
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Contributors

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Performance, concept, creation:
Elisa Siegmund

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Real-time sound composition:
Samaquias Lorta

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Dramaturgy:
Maren Witte

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Outside eye:
Joachim Mohr, Birgit Aust

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Video editing, projections:
Elisa Siegmund

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Video recording and support:
Elisa and Barbara Siegmund

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Production management:
Elisa Siegmund

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Zirkus ON mentors:
Robert Sterzik, Liz Williams

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Distribution/management:
Elisa Siegmund

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Zirkus ON mentors:

Robert Sterzik, Liz Williams
 

Distribution/management:

Elisa Siegmund

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Funders/Sponsors

 

• A co-production with the ON THE EDGE Festival Vienna and E-WERK Freiburg.

• Funded by the Performing Arts Fund with resources from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media #TakeHeart (process funding), by the BMKÖS, the Cultural Office Freiburg, the Regional Council Freiburg, and the City and State of Salzburg.

• Accompanied by the creation network Zirkus ON. Zirkus ON is funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media through the program “Verbindungen fördern” of the Federal Association of Independent Performing Arts (Bundesverband Freie Darstellende Künste e.V.).

• Made possible by the residency program of Winterfest Salzburg and a residency at Freudenhaus Lustenau.