The Saxonz & Hellerau

Floor on Fire.

Breakdance competes against ballet, street style against contemporary and hip hop against top dance. On World Dance Day, the successful dance format from TheSaxonz and Hellerau will be a guest in Linz.

"Floor on Fire" thrives on the individuality of the dancers, their virtuosity and their unlimited creativity. What initially looks like a competition between the individual dance styles turns into mixed dance teams that spontaneously present their joint skills on the dance floor. At the end, a jury with audience participation decides on the best team - an experience for dancers and audience alike!

Four crews became one movement: The Saxonz were formed in 2013 as a union of Saxony's best breakers - with the aim of combining talent, energy and attitude under a common name. What followed reads like a success story in strobe light: three-time winners of the Battle of the Year, international appearances from Asia to America, workshops, films, art projects. But more important than trophies is their principle of togetherness - training, originality, cohesion. This attitude has given rise to a collective style that sees breaking as a living culture and is constantly reinventing itself. Today, The Saxonz are one of the most influential crews in Germany, precise in their movements, open in their thinking - and have long been ambassadors of a generation that shapes attitude from energy.

Where once the idea of music and rhythm was cast in architecture, today a laboratory of the present pulsates. Hellerau - European Center for the Arts - is not a house of quiet contemplation, but an open system: stage, workshop, space for discourse. This is where dance, music, theater, performance, media and visual arts intersect, where co-productions, festivals and debates are created. Since 1911, the house has shaped the artistic awakening - visionary then, indispensable today. Under Artistic Director Carena Schlewitt, Hellerau has further established itself as an international center of contemporary art: around 350 events per year, a network of partners worldwide - and always the question of what art has to do with society.