Camilla Schielin is a dancer and choreographer, living and working in Vienna. She studied contemporary dance and performance in Austria and Germany. Her latest performance into (quickening ground) premiered at Tanzquartier Wien in March 2024. Her performances unfold in various settings on stages, in exhibition spaces and in public places. Beside her solo projects, which also include take me to my house (2021), Sylvester (2022), and in a tryst (2022), she is also part of the performance group maria mercedes; their works include ballade (2021) and again expressing things maybe (2023). Schielin received the danceWEB Scholarship in the frame of ImPulsTanz – Vienna Internaional Dance Festival in 2021. As a performer she has worked with Nick Mauss for the Museum Ludwig in Cologne, with Olivia Erlanger and Doris Uhlich in Vienna, and as part of the dance group Parasol with Ian Kaler and Alix Eynaudi, among others.

At a time when we have come accustomed to encounter images and people, history as well as the banal, simply as fleeting parts of a continuous downstream, Camilla Schielin points to the flip side of this so-called timeline. Not only do new and seemingly important things get lost – but things we had forgotten are inclined to make a “ghostly return”. One example is “Tecktonik”, a dance style that was developed in the 2000s in France and enjoyed a short period of popularity on YouTube: Schielin rescues it from oblivion, using it as a tool to work herself deeper into the eponymous quickening ground. An impressive solo between collective memory and biography, embodiment and virtuality.