fly to fly, fly to girl

fly to fly, fly to girl is a dance performance and an insight into biology, starring 2 whimsical flies. A horse fly pretends to be a business lady, while a fruit fly embodies a lab technician. Staged as anthropomorphic animals, they ponder over relationships. Rigorously aware of the fragile nature of collaboration and the promise of encounters.  

The evening unfolds, and the two flies chase and intertwine symbiotically and parasitically. Haematopota subcylindrica persistently attempts to gain control of the evening. She is also known as the horse fly and needs to suck blood for reproduction. Additionally, she is eager to launch her new book and attempts to perform a business of biomimicry. “Visibility does not mean being in the foreground, but rather being an inconspicuous observer of the situation,” says Drosophila melanogaster. She is commonly known as the fruit fly. Her agenda is to stay hydrated, observe and be flirtatious.  

Characterized by annoyance and disgust, the flies challenge expectations of their choreographic endeavor and find affection in the fact of being pretentious and persistent. What does it mean to be in one's nature? In the blur between animal and human, desire seems to be at the heart of their shared and lived materiality.

Credits

Dance, concept, text, booklet design: Julia Müllner 
Dance: Ottavia Catenacci 
Sound design and composition: Manuel Riegler 
Headpieces: Martin Sieweke and Julia Müllner 
Supervisor: Stina Nyberg 
Nature documentary voice-over: Jennifer Lacey, Zoë Poluch  

Special thanks to my cohort at the Stockholm University of the Arts and to Dora Brkarić, Mea Holappa for accompanying me in the dance studio 

Technical support: Freja Forsström, Olle Axén

Program

• 12 May at 17:45 
• 13 May at 17:45  
• 14 May at 14:45

Duration: 90min (including individual invitations into the space) 

Venue: MDT Studio 1

Bio Julia Müllner

Julia Müllner works with choreography through dance and graphic design. Alongside her own projects, she is part of the Vienna-based dance duo maria mercedes. She received a scholarship for Music and Performing Arts from the Austrian Ministry of Culture (2021) and a danceWEB scholarship at ImPulsTanz (2021). In 2023 she was part of the dance group PARASOL at Tanzquartier Wien. Before her MA in Choreography from Stockholm University of the Arts, Julia studied Dance and Choreography at the Danish National School of Performing Arts (2019). 

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