maria teresa tanzarella

winner of Fleshdance 2014, Halle G, Tanzquartier (Vienna, Austria)
When holding is more painful than letting go.

 

 

 

The most apt statement came from a young dancer: Maria Teresa Tanzarella (22) embarked, with Gloria Gaynor's hit I Will Survive, on a plank position - with only one hand and one foot on the floor. 

This was the artistic ironicization of the institutional satire: it was not Tanzarella that mattered, but rather the staging of the audience's expectations. [...] So all in all: Bingo! (Helmut Ploebst, DER STANDARD, 9.12.2014)