Camilla Schielin
Creative Crossroads Cycle Two 2025–2026
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.
shining rose
Performance by maria mercedes
The most famous modern language game about the rose was coined by Gertrude Stein: “A rose is a rose is a rose.” But this dispassionate sentence acknowledges only one aspect of the cultural associations surrounding the rose. The Viennese performance duo maria mercedes (Julia Müllner and Camilla Schielin) joined forces with dancer Yoh Morishita for their three-part trio shining rose, building bridges between the life of the rose and the blooms of emotion. As far as this piece is concerned, a rose is a rose is a symbol of sensuality, thorny resistance and the whirlwind of emotions. Both rumour and gossip (in the Middle Ages, “gossip” meant confidante) are based on passing something on. The same applies to the magic of the rose. In shining rose, fantastic costumes dance, colours of passion from red to violet unfold, and longing weaves its way along the “walls of innocence” in white.
maria mercedes consists of Julia Maria Müllner and Camilla Mercedes Schielin. They live and work as dancers and choreographers in Vienna and Stockholm. As a duo, they make choreographies inspired by popular culture and move them into bizarre settings. Both of them are interested in fluctuating encounters between audience and performance. Since autumn of 2020, maria mercedes’s pieces have been shown at WUK, Tanzquartier Wien, Kunstverein Eisenstadt, Haus.Wien, Mühlbauer, Bridging Cologne and KEX Fringe Kyoto in collaboration with Yoh Morishita.
7 August 2026
9 August 2026
Kasino am Schwarzenbergplatz
Find times & tickets here.
Camilla Schielin at Workshop Foundation Budapest
Creative Crossroads Residency
In Camilla Schielin's new research, the She Wolf serves as a carrier for her questions around presence, retreat and sensuality, and suckling as a means of establishing identity. She is a mythological fantasy and founding mother of a “Roman Empire” (here viewed more as a projection surface than actual antiquity), a somewhat esoteric archetype, but also interwoven with pop culture. A figure who transcends boundaries, she is not only flesh and instinct, but also hauntingly charged.
During her stay in Budapest she presents a showing:
1 May 2026,
18:00–19:00
Trafo House Budapest
Admission is free.
Camilla Schielin
shining rose at ImPulsTanz Festival
Creative Crossroads artist Camilla Schielin is invited with her work to ImPulsTanz Vienna International Dance Festival! shining rose by maria mercedes, a duo consisting of Camilla Schielin and Juli Müllner is shown twice in August.
Camilla Schielin at the [8:tension] Podcast
Episode 19 of our [8:tension] Podcast is out! With someone who's name you will hear more often from us: Camilla Schielin, who showed her solo piece into (quickening ground) at ImPulsTanz and is one of our Creative Crossroad artists of cycle 2!