For Scrap Etude, I designed and built two instruments that I called scrap rugs. They were made of metal scrap and wire ropes, and were dragged accross the 100m long parking of Olympiastadion Berlin by two running performers. The Etude was named after these scrap rugs. The choreographic drum score I developed contains the movements of the scrap runners plus two drum kits playing a simple pattern in a phasing sequence. The changing proximity of scrap rugs to audience equaled turning a volume knob. In the first part, the length of the performer’s sprints determined the musical duration of the sound, in the second part, the sprints were in sync with the groove played on the drum kits. The scrap rugs were then mounted onto stands and functioned as preparations for two large upright thunder sheets that were beaten according to the drum pattern. Florentina rode around the scenery on top of a car that drove on only two wheels. Six people burned and got extinguished, and a car dropped from 30m height, exploded and burst into flames.

"Based on a composition by experimental composer Katharina Ernst and sound designer Stefan Schneider, this Etude once more melts together musical elements and stunt actions. A mixed cast of stunt women, musicians and performers explore new contexts for representation in dance and the possibilities of a ‘technical’ theatre in a series of joint operatic rituals and orchestrated crash tests."

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