1816: It’s the year that goes down in history as A Year Without Summer, and Mary Shelley is to create Frankenstein, a genius forcing nature to bend to his will, ending up in destruction with his monster assembled from corpses‘ parts. A Year Without Summer is an apocalyptic vision of artificial life: In an attempt to conquer nature, the body becomes the testing ground, subjected to ever more radical climatic conditions.

A Year Without Summer is about improving nature to the point of perversion, and about playing off the promise of eternal life against the certainty of death.

Directing, Choreography & Performance: Florentina Holzinger
Stage Design: Nikola Knežević
Lighting: Kevin Sock
Dramaturgy Volksbühne: Leonie Hahn
A production by Florentina Holzinger/Spirit, neon lobster, Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz Berlin. In coproduction with Tanzquartier Vienna, International Summer Festival Kampnagel, Dansenhus Stockholm, DESINGEL Antwerp, Maska Ljubljana, asphalt Festival Düsseldorf, Rising Melbourne, Factory International Manchester und Marvaða Iceland