About Picknick

Four dancers in traditional costumes sit around a dance floor where they alternately move through a minimalist choreography. While they pop the corks, eat, drink, laugh with another and observe each other, their movements tell of loss, loneliness, grief, speechlessness. Nevertheless, at the same time they attempt to reach the others.

About Billinger & Schulz

Verena Billinger and Sebastian Schulz are artists and choreographers and, apart from video works, have not produced dance films up until now. Based in and from Germany, their choreographies have been shown in Europe and Asia and they were awarded with several prizes for their work, among those the “Bearers of Hope for Dance“ award from European Dance magazine Tanz and the renowned Funding Prize of the Region of North Rhine-Westphalia. In their artistic work, Billinger and Schulz look at society and the public. For the artistic shaping and staging they focus their images and topics on the body’s role, whose movement they understand as a conveyor and sign of life.