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Join the ACF DC for ORLANDO TRIP, a performing arts concert by Vienna-based collective Fox On Ice. The show reimagines the mythical character Orlando through music, literature, spoken performance, film, and visual storytelling. Paying tribute to the great European minds Ludovico Ariosto and Virginia Woolf, the production explores fluidity, transformation, and the crossing of borders through a contemporary European lens.
Part concert, part spoken performance, part cinematic experience, ORLANDO TRIP unfolds through twelve songs, intermezzi, and videos that trace the journey of Orlando — a knight, traveler, and ambassador, who crosses the seas several times and finally returns as a masterful and nomadic conqueror of rigid borders. Seamlessly blending stage and film, music and literature, Fox On Ice creates an immersive world where humans and landscapes, masculinity and femininity, reality and myth continuously transform into one another. Described by critics as “a performance with a hypnotic aura” and “a successful mix of elegance and opulence,” ORLANDO TRIP offers sensual access to a European myth centered on fluidity and the feminine art of transformation. The internationally acclaimed production has been presented at theaters and festivals across Europe, the Middle East, North America, and Asia.
Doors open at 7:30 PM. The event starts at 8:15 PM and is followed by an Austrian wine reception.
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Fox On Ice is the band project of Anna Luca Poloni and Christian Mair. Fox On Ice develops performing arts concerts, focusing on the re-telling of myth through female and fluid perspectives. It researches and creates at the inter-creative crossing point between music, literature, film and theatre. Fox On Ice is a European Band based in Vienna, Austria, performing worldwide.
Anna Luca Poloni is an Austro-Italian writer, singer and performer. Under her Austrian name Krassnigg, she realized numerous productions for Staatstheater Braunschweig, Ruhrfestspiele Recklinghausen, Theaterhaus Gessner Allee Zurich, Grand Théâtre Luxemburg, Schauspielhaus Wien, and Wiener Festwochen, among others. Poloni developed numerous inter-creative events in the field of performing arts. She is a University Professor for Directing at the Max Reinhardt Seminar Vienna, as well as the founder and artistic director of Wortwiege.
Christian Mair is an Austrian composer, musician, visual-artist, theatre and film producer, whose artistic work was presented at major cultural institutions, including Schauspielhaus Vienna, Theater in der Josefstadt Vienna, Théâtre National du Luxembourg, Grand Théâtre Luxembourg, Ruhrfestspiele Recklinghausen, Festspiele Reichenau, Schauspiel Dortmund, Metro Kinokulturhaus Vienna, Capital of Culture Linz09, and Wiener Festwochen. He is the founder and managing director of Wortwiege.
Anna Luca Poloni and Christian Mair founded Wortwiege, a theatre producer and festival dedicated to contemporary dramatic storytelling and writer-centered theatre. Working with material ranging from antiquity to the present, Wortwiege combines theatrical productions with top-class programs of literature and science in public discourse.