About Car Walk (2021)

A group of performers dances with a car on a vast and empty parking lot. With the handbrake loosened, pushed around and guided, the heavy body of the vehicle becomes dance partner and dance stage at the same time. While the dancers start to formally explore the movement possibilities offered by the car, moving over, through and around their unlikely counterpart, their actions become more courageous, more free and at the same time more risky and potentially dangerous. Flashes of pictures, affects, dreams, fears and hopes related to cars and mobility—freedom, desire, break-out, accident, death…—enter the frame of what is seen and create a stumbling block for thought around movement and mobility, and their past, present and future. All the while, the dancers calmly execute their task and stay focused on their dance with their unexpected match.

About Verena Billinger & Sebastian 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.

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