A Year without Summer
With German and English surtitles
Florentina Holzinger
mit dt. und engl. ÜT
BEATRICE CORDUA 1943 – 2025
Adieu, Trixie
Unconventional. Unperturbed. Compassionate. And a commanding presence on stage—a monolith of structure, clarity, and precision.
Beatrice Cordua danced at the Volksbühne as early as the 1990s under Johann Kresnik and recently returned as a matadora with Florentina Holzinger and ensemble.
Nudity was her costume in this raw form of being, and costume, she believed, was not a matter of age.
She became a queen and remains a star in the dance sky.
You are missed—thank you, and adieu, Trixie.
It is 2025. We live in a year without summer: In a jump-scare reality that feels like an apocalyptic vision of our world, thrown into darkness andstripped of certainty. Survival becomes ritual, and despair dances hand in hand with ecstasy.
In 1816, the original „year without summer“,Mount Tambora erupts in Indonesia, ashes fill the sky, the sun disappears, crops fail, and the world hungers. That same year, 18-year-old Mary stays by Lake Geneva with other poets and storm and darkness inspire them to tell ghost stories. Mary imagines Dr. Frankenstein, a genius of science, who forces nature to bend to his will and ends up in destruction with his monster assembled from corpses‘ parts.
Florentina Holzinger and cast explore the stories we tell about our bodies, health, identities, decay and our environment: The 21st century pursuit of longevity, medical promises of rejuvenation to the perils of unchecked technological growth in a world shaped by AI, robotics, and bioengineering. A Year without Summer appropriates this attempt to improve nature to the point of perversion and plays off the promise of eternal life against the certainty of death.
But what happens when the creation becomes the monster? When creation becomes (like) us?
Note
We recommend a minimum age of 18 to attend the performance.
Trigger warning
Please note: A Year without Summer contains
blood and bodily fluids
self-injurious acts
explicit depictions of sexual acts
strobe effects
Cast
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- Saioa Alvarez Ruiz
- Tanja Erhart
- Lucy Wilke
- Liane Jil Apel
- Andrea Baker
- Bear Boy
- Sofia Borges
- Born In Flamez
- Gibrana Cervantes
- Renée Copraij
- Beatrice Cordua
- Sophie Duncan
- Luz de Luna Duran
- Bláthin Eckhardt
- Renée Eigendorff
- Fibi Eyewalker
- Paige A. Flash
- Florentina Holzinger
- Sahel van K
- Chris Kringel
- Annina Machaz
- Achan Malonda
- Ingeborg Middendorf
- MING
- Xana Novais
- Netti Nüganen
- Constanza Pérez de Lara Bonatti
- Sue Shay
- Gitti Ulm
- Bärbel Warneke
Musikalische Leitung
- Born In Flamez
- Gibrana Cervantes
- Stefan Schneider
Live-Musik
- Sofia Borges
- Born In Flamez
- Gibrana Cervantes
- Bláthin Eckhardt
- Paige A. Flash
- MING
- Stefan Schneider
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