Zoë Schreckenberg – Nach dem Aufstehen und vor dem Liegen

Student at the theatre, film and media studies department of the University of Vienna Lara Cortellini shares her thoughts on Zoë Schreckenberg's "After Getting Up and Before Lying Down".
, © Franzi Kreis

Zoë Schreckenberg – Nach dem Aufstehen und vor dem Liegen

, © Franzi Kreis

Zoë Schreckenberg – Nach dem Aufstehen und vor dem Liegen

, © Franzi Kreis

Zoë Schreckenberg – Nach dem Aufstehen und vor dem Liegen

, © Franzi Kreis

Zoë Schreckenberg – Nach dem Aufstehen und vor dem Liegen

, © Franzi Kreis

Zoë Schreckenberg – Nach dem Aufstehen und vor dem Liegen

Lara Cortellini 

Dear Zoe,

 I knew your performance was about transitions. You studied the same subject at Uni as I do now, we learn about what exists but is never really “there”, the “medium”. But you made it sensible: the place in-between, the movements in it.
When I walked down the stairs and into the theatre space, it was all clear to me. It was a performance that would never have the same effect in a big theatre or an open space.

The dust, the darkness, the only light hanging from the ceiling. It was as if I had climbed down a deep well. There was this sound in the background, not a real melody, no steady rhythm, just shivering dripping sounds and this loud noise. A stalactite cave, only upwards, not downwards. In this place time goes by differently. There’s no chronology; it moves differently, maybe in circles or from the ceiling to the floor.

And you danced in this space as if you were part of it. Your slow, controlled motions helped to create it – never have I ever experienced such a focus on the smallest tremor of a hand and the almost unnoticeable shifting of feet. Movements that slowly formed new poses, like a moving sculpture. It was electric, magnetic, and very colourful to me.

Is this what life is supposed to feel like? A constant in-between? The transition between birth and death? How are we so calm? – It’s the pressure, I know, that keeps everything the way it is. The ocean bed. The darkness. A galactic space with no escape. But somehow there’s another place, layered on top of the other: The one where life is fast and ecstatic – just when you leave the theatre and come back to the streets.

 

And then you vanished into the abyss, your white shoes the last thing that I saw –leaving me wondering if I was part of it, or just lucky to have watched it for a while.

 

Lara

 

Lara Cortellini just started to study theater film and media at the University Vienna. Besides her passion for dance, and almost any kind of art and performance, she has always loved to write. She tries to travel a lot, finding wonderful people and inspiration wherever she goes!

Events

27.03.2019 - 29.03.2019

Zoë Schreckenberg

Nach dem Aufstehen und vor dem Liegen

Performance / Tanz
Uraufführung

Oktober 2024
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brut all over Vienna

brut nordwest

barrierefrei

Nordwestbahnstraße 8-10, 1200 Wien
U-Bahn: U1, U2 (Praterstern), U4 (Friedensbrücke), U6 (Dresdnerstraße) Tram: 5 (Nordwestbahnstraße) Bus: 5A (Wasnergasse)

Oktober 2024
Myassa Kraitt
The Last Feminist
Oktober 2024
Cleidy Acevedo
QUIET EMOTIONS? FREE YOUR MENTAL LOAD
Oktober 2024
Asher O'Gorman
mind numbing filthy-finger potholes: a glossary of the paradox of boredom
November 2024
Alix Eynaudi & Guests
Death by Landscape, a concert
November 2024
Hungry Sharks Company
Destination FCKD
November - Dezember 2024
Anne Juren & Matthias Kranebitter
We Are All Mothers WAAM
Dezember 2024
Karin Pauer
AVA
Dezember 2024
VIENNA IMPROVISERS ORCHESTRA
unfolding poetic vision(s) on common ground

WUK performing arts

barrierefrei

Währinger Straße 59, 1090 Wien
U-Bahn: U6 (Währinger Straße / Volksoper), Tram: 40, 41, 42 (Währinger Straße / Volksoper), 5, 33 (Spitalgasse), 37, 38, 40, 41, 42 (Spitalgasse / Währinger Straße)

November 2024
Ale Bachlechner
Ruin Your Life
November 2024
MO-ZA-IK (Rosa Perl, Viviane Le Tanzmeister, Jamali Abale, Mátyás Kántor)
Elevate

brut im Betrieb

barrierefrei

Vogelweidplatz 13, 1150 Wien
U-Bahn: U6 (Burggasse-Stadthalle) / Bus: 48A (Moeringgasse) / Tram: 9 (Camillo Sitte Gasse)

Oktober - November 2024
Der Betrieb / Anna Maria Nowak
The Generations Season

brut im 3. Bezirk (Nähe Stadtpark)

nicht barrierefrei

Ort wird nach der Anmeldung bekannt gegeben

Oktober 2024
Charlotta Ruth
Choreografische Spuren und Kettenkreationen

studio brut

nicht barrierefrei

Zieglergasse 25, 1070 Wien
U-Bahn: U3 (Zieglergasse), Tram: 49 (Westbahnstraße / Zieglergasse)

September - Oktober 2024
DARUM (Victoria Halper & Kai Krösche)
[EOL]. End of Life
Oktober 2024
Tubi Malcharzik & Team
PASKUDNIK
Oktober 2024
Nazis & Goldmund
Please take over. oder: Die Zukunft der Vergangenheit des Widerstands
Oktober 2024
Nazis & Goldmund
Please take over. oder: Die Zukunft der Vergangenheit des Widerstands
November 2024
Helena Araújo
and it gets better

Literaturhaus Wien

barrierefrei

Zieglergasse 26A, 1070 Wien
U-Bahn: U3 (Zieglergasse), Tram: 49 (Westbahnstraße/Zieglergasse), Bus 13A (Neubaugasse)

Oktober 2024
Nazis & Goldmund
Please take over. oder: Die Zukunft der Vergangenheit des Widerstands