„Dance for Nothing“ A dancer puts on headphones and examines the great US American composer John Cage. Listening to his influential “Lecture on Nothing” from 1949, Salamon dances and talks “for nothing” ...

"Dance #2" This duet has a built-in tenderness machine which is fitted into an unusual landscape of movement by the two renowned dancers/choreographers from Hungary and Belgium. In it, they occupy each...

„Unturtled #1“ In their series „Unturtled“ choreographer and dancer Isabelle Schad and fine artist Laurent Goldring explore the relationship between body and image. An extraordinary costume takes on a li...

„Unturtled #4“ In their series „Unturtled“ choreographer and dancer Isabelle Schad and fine artist Laurent Goldring explore the relationship between body and image. An extraordinary costume takes on a li...

„Love Songs“ Dancing with love, singing of love, glowing out of love – Ives Thuwis goes for the full monty together with young people between 13 and 20 years of age. They examine what has inspired art s...

„Som Faves“ Ivo Dimchev’s appraised, tragicomic solo which was shown already last year at ImPulsTanz. Equipped with a wig and keyboards, the radical performer slips from one identity into another and d...

„I-ON“ Solo with objects by Franz West At ImPulsTanz 2010, Ivo Dimchev met Franz West for the first time and as a consequence, the Bulgarian extreme performer and choreographer and the successful Aus...

„Turbulence (a dance about the economy)“ This is dance’s answer to the crisis: a hybrid made up of a spectacle, a performance installation and propaganda rhetoric. US American performance artist Keith...

Ko Murobushi (JP) + J-F. Pauvros (FR), Alain Mahé (FR), Dorothée Munyaneza (FR/RW) „?(s) - krypt blues“ Together with three musicians from France and Rwanda, Butoh legend Ko Murobushi experiments with ...

„New Work by Édouard Lock" Canadian choreographer Édouard Lock makes two grand operas dance with each other: “Dido and Aeneas” by Henry Purcell and “Orpheus and Eurydice” by Christoph Willibald Gluck. Two ...

„WELLNESS – ThePerfectGarden“ The palm house in Burggarten transforms into a Garden Eden of eternal beauty in the able hands of the Golden Lion winner at the 2007 Venice Biennale. In the first part of th...

„Talking Head“ As test subjects, performers are placed into a twittertubeandfacebook apparatus, in which absurd characters emerge following the dictate of current online-happenings. The performers are...

„Neuer Wiener Bioaktionismus“ Viennese Actionism again at last! Three young Viennese artists/dancers from Chile, Poland and Switzerland dig into Nitsch, Brus and Co., translating the actionist mystery int...

„Analysis – the Whole Song“ First presentation In their first presentation of the conclusion of their trilogy about Ricky and Ronny, the protagonists undertake a spiritual trip through the world of ne...

„The Ballad of Ricky and Ronny – a pop opera“ Four years ago, Hans Petter Dahl and Anna Sophia Bonnema – longtime members of Needcompany – created the darkly romantic pop opera “The Ballad of Ricky an...

„Ricky and Ronny and Hundred Stars (a Sado Country Opera)“ Four years ago, Hans Petter Dahl and Anna Sophia Bonnema – longtime members of Needcompany – created the darkly romantic pop opera “The Ballad of...

„Around the hole everything is edge“ A fable consisting of various fragments. In Marcela Levi’s minimalist duet objects, too, become performers while beauty and violence seem to coexist in an irritating way. ...

„Moth“ „Series“ An excessive dance solo and a fiery choreography in the true sense of the word, that makes the invisible visible. Both Marko Milic’s and Francesca Grilli’s solos are inspired by 18th/19t...

„Robert and Maria“ Maria Hassabi has been performing shows since childhood and Robert Steijn began dancing rituals at forty-five. In their duet, they ask themselves where outside differences meet ins...

„gloires du matin :)-(:“ A dance in the morning light. A solo named after the sky-blue morning glory, a flower whose seeds are used by Mexican natives for their magic rituals. In the name of these “Gl...

„Geo-trauma Dance“ He has always been a few steps ahead of his time and is known for his adventurous projects that transgress norms. In a ProSeries presentation, Mårten Spångberg now pulls out all t...

„Pudique acide / Extasis renewing“ Two choreographies by the influential and innovative French artist from the roaring eighties. Together with her then co-choreographer Jean-François Duroure she is r...

„MAYBE FOREVER“ A partner dance with a false bottom. In their first joint piece, the two established stars of contemporary dance – US American Meg Stuart and Austrian Philipp Gehmacher – come togethe...

„Spaces and Bones“ “Ms Maar is breathtaking”, the New York Times celebrated the premiere of the dancer and choreographer’s duet with the audio- visual artist and performer Kenta Nagai featuring set piece...

„NEWS“ If dance is political, then the dance of a drag queen is revolutionary, Jai Jai Sincere is convinced. She ignores all the news about the bad world, drops her polished burlesque dance and tak...

A second ImPulsTanz coproduction shows the successful Belgian company at Kasino am Schwarzenbergplatz in June. The piece is absurd chaos, universal illusion and cosmic disorientation. Because this is,...

The piece was developed by the renowned choreographer Jan Lauwers | Needcompany in cooperation with actors of the Burgtheater. The black comedy “The Art of Entertainment” revolves around a famous act...

„Vielfalt“ In her piece, long-time member of the Forsythe Company Nicole Peisl examines the realities of a performance. The ingredients: triumph, failure, silence and gestures, sound, humour, posture, rop...

„Elena’s Aria“ A key work by the Belgian star choreographer, performed again for the first time in 25 years. Between all the chairs and on the magic chalk circle De Keersmaeker will also dance herself as on...

„Versuchsperson Silke Grabinger“ Breakdance heroine Silke SILK Grabinger has volunteered to take part in experiments by five very different Austrian artists: top comedian Dirk Stermann as well as cho...

„A Talk“ In an extremely precise choreography made up of language acrobatics, movement and song, the young artistic duo Söderberg & Sudermann present a crazy tour de force through important topics in l...

„YOUDREAM“ YouTube and iPad, YOUDREAM and iChat. The French-Austrian-Belgian collective Superamas moves from a live chat room to a dream show and from there on to a dramatic video thriller that finally lea...

„Jhoom“ Moving in euphoria – that’s the meaning of the Hindi word “jhoom”. And it’s also the title of the grandiose Bollywood show by the Terence Lewis Dance Company that opens the 28th  ImPulsTanz Fe...

"(M)IMOSA - Twenty Looks or Paris is Burning at The Judson Church (M)" What would have happened, if someone from the colourful Voguing scene from Harlem would have come downtown to meet the pioneers...

„Preparatio Mortis" In this highly acclaimed solo for dancer Annabelle Chambon Jan Fabre claims that there are also positive aspects of death. Like one raised from the dead Chambon steps out of a grave c...

„PROMETHEUS - Landscape II" Prometheus, the rebel of Greek mythology, gave fire to humankind. This made Zeus, the father of the gods, incredibly angry and so he not only punished the humans but also t...

In cooperation with Kunsthistorisches Museum Re-Enactement of „The Rea(dy) makes of the Performance Money“ performed by Wim Vandekeybus Equipped with a banal object like a Bic ball pen, the young Jan...

In cooperation with Kunsthistorisches Museum Re-Enactement of „Ilad of the Bic Art“ performed by Emio Greco Equipped with a banal object like a Bic ball pen, the young Jan Fabre asked fundamental que...

„Monkey Sandwich“ Fusing film and live performance, Wim Vandekeybus weaves a tangle of stories masterfully into a captivating trip. The young performer Damien Chapelle ingeniously interacts with a v...

„Oedipus / Bêt noir" The classic drama by Sophocles in Flemish director Jan Decorte’s unconventional, playful adaptation is the basis for this big multimedia ensemble work for 14 dancers and actors in t...

„Splendid Isolation“ Both in the process of creating her charming solo (a collaboration with Jennifer Lacey and sound artist Olivier Tirmarche) and on stage Valerie Oberleithner conjures up ghosts. She...

SOLO...? „A list of love songs A list of broken love songs A list of the places where you could kill yourself in revenge to the person that left you A list of the last words you would say before leaving t...

With Subtitles When do we actually really “hear” information? How do we filter information that is available to us anytime? When do we believe someone or something? And how do we act as individuals and...

Magical Do magic and feminism go together? Anne Juren, the French choreographer living in Vienna, and Annie Dorsen, the New York based director, attempt to prove that it can: it’s alchemical, it’s pol...

Closing Charity Event for the XVIII International AIDS Conference 2010 The ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra will open the evening with the "Hommage à Klaus Nomi" by Austrian composer Olga Neuwirth, ...

~~~O oui~~~ This is going to be a piece with words because he loves words, says Benoît Lachambre. Saying “I love you” – with these words, as the language offers them. And yet the artist wants to fin...

The Angola Project I The face of the world keeps changing with a fascinating resoluteness. The reality of cultures and societies of different identities living together is increasingly leaving its mark...

The Angola Project II The face of the world keeps changing with a fascinating resoluteness. The reality of cultures and societies of different identities living together is increasingly leaving its...

The Golden Mean (LIVE) Humanity in a somewhat crazy yet friendly future. Strange beings are dancing in golden veils and imaginative suits in the light of oversized desk lamps, they are wearing thick...

pavlova 3'23'' This year at ImPulsTanz the great French choreographer Mathilde Monnier presents an encounter with a ballet piece that marked the transition from classical to modern ballet. Michel Fokine’s s...

Soapéra This year at ImPulsTanz the great French choreographer Mathilde Monnier presents an encounter between dance and painting, and an encounter with a ballet piece that marked the transition from ...

Holes #1 How can two dancing bodies change the space of the stage? What does intimacy and togetherness mean in relation to this, and how can the dancers’ language of movement best be used to convey i...

Holes #2 How can two dancing bodies change the space of the stage? What does intimacy and togetherness mean in relation to this, and how can the dancers’ language of movement best be used to convey i...

Too Shy To Stare Performers personifying their audience and enabling an intimate encounter which does not offend the theatre goers because it doesn’t have to to get under their skin. Davis Freeman, t...

Choreography, a Prologue for the Apocalypse of Understanding, Get Ready! Apocalypse now! Or perhaps soon. Or… Anyhow, for New York artist DD Dorvillier, the loss of understanding is worthy of a prologue. T...

RMW(a) & RMW New York in the 1990s. A city full of dynamic queer movements like Act Up, Lesbian Avengers and Queer Nation. George Bush, sr. was in office as president of the United States. Demonstrations...

(BIG GIRLS DO BIG THINGS) An expedition to the surface-oriented world of a performer: in Eleanor Bauer’s solo that which should be shouted out is whispered, and that which should be whispered is sung. A...

Café Prückel Warning! Belgians penetrating the quiet of a Viennese coffee house. The graduate psychologist and co-founder of the famous Les Ballets C. de la B., Alain Platel, mans Café Prückel on Rin...

Som Faves Due to serious voice problems of the artist, the add-on performance of Ivo Dimchev "Som Faves" on August 11, at Kasino am Schwarzenbergplatz, had to be cancelled! Already bought tickets can...

III In “III”, Jenny Beyer, Chris Leuenberger and Anja Müller examine the wish to work collectively on solos. In alternating constellations they create a common world of fine shifts and supposed oppo...

Cédric Andrieux Cédric Andrieux is an exceptional dancer. And the French great of contemporary dance, Jérôme Bel, is a choreographer who is particularly interested in the semiotics of that which is ...

Dogheart When a dancer like Jonathan Burrows and a performer like Chrysa Parkinson get together this may lead to the development of rather unusual stories. Burrows, who has undergone a change from being...

Cheap Lecture / The Cow Piece Their humorous “Both Sitting Duet” has been a truly big seller since its first performance in 2002, and it was also the beginning of a series of joint works portraying a n...

Crotch What does conceptual dance look like coming from the West Coast? It must be ironic, all over queer and critical. As he proves in his solo “Crotch (all the Joseph Beuys references in the world c...

A brief history (of my life in performance) „A body accumulates information and makes choices. A brief history… is a distillation and a fantasy projection of who and what I am in the context of 30 ...

Hommage to Kazuo Ohno by Ko Murobushi On July 1, 2010, Butoh- legend Kazuo Ohno died at the age of 103. Like no one else, Ohno embodied the ambivalent nature of Japanese Butoh: his dance between sensuality...

Gardenia It’s about ageing. And – yes – despite youth cult, busyness and fitness mania, without exception every single one of us reaches the point where we have to admit: youth is gone. This is the c...

Daphnis et Chloé / Sacre: The Rite Thing Austrian choreographer Chris Haring, winner of the Golden Lion in Venice, works together with “Les Ballets de Monte Carlo”, who also collaborated with artists incl...

Children / A Few Minutes of Lock She was the only one who could perform a full-body barrel jump (a “horizontal” pirouette). For nearly two decades, Louise Lecavalier was principal dancer with the fam...

filzen Inge Kaindlstorfer, Sabina Holzer, Jack Hauser and David Ender of LuxFlux create new structures by means of „felting“ traces and methodsof different artists. From the seemingly lose a complex and...

On Ice Maija Hirvanen from Finland calls her solo “a portrait of a contemporary woman in a social democratic society”. With humour, the performer of the work, Anna-Maija Terävä, skates on the glass...

Powered By Emotion Steve Paxton and the “Buena Vista Social Club”. How does that go together? The Swedish performer, theoretician and curator Mårten Spångberg has joined these two very different items...

RE:Drumming In the framework of their final tour, graduates of the P.A.R.T.S. school for dance and choreography, headed by Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker and recently awarded in Venice with the Silver Lion,...

New Works #1 P.A.R.T.S., the dance and choreography education founded and presided over by Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, is celebrating its 15th anniversary. Recently awarded with the first Silver Lion...

New Works #2 P.A.R.T.S., the dance and choreography education founded and presided over by Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, is celebrating its 15th anniversary. Recently awarded with the first Silver Lion...

New Works #3 P.A.R.T.S., the dance and choreography education founded and presided over by Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, is celebrating its 15th anniversary. Recently awarded with the first Silver Lion...

Is You Me They make for a very special pair: Louise Lecavalier and Benoît Lachambre. Initially, Lecavalier – the world-famous dance virtuoso from La La La Human Steps – wanted to collaborate on a gr...

Still Standing You After their celebrated “Still Difficult Duet”, Pieter Ampe and Gui Garrido will enter the stage together once more. But how much longer will they be able to carry and, more importantly, to ...

We must eat our suckers with the wrappers on... The title is straightforward enough. "We must it our suckers with the wrappers on" is a widespread idiom in the townships of Johannesburg. White South...

En Atendant A brand new piece by the famous Belgian choreographer Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker. In her last project, “The Song”, which was shown at ImPulsTanz in 2009, she examined the music of the Bea...

"Mozart/Concert Arias - un moto di gioia" (Chor.: Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker) Date: December 19+20, 2006, 7.30 p.m. | Theater an der Wien "Mozart/Concert Arias" is ruled by a choreographer's sensibility,...

Lawaai means Hawaai At the intersection of choreography and the fine arts, Sara Manente has created a trio in which space is just as much a protagonist as dance and sounds. Like an echo of confusion,...

The Great Public Sale of unrealized but brilliant ideas An auction of ideas ranging from the adventurous through to the utopian: many artists stockpile old ideas which – for some reason or other – nev...

Whats the prediction? Last year, he provided the music to Wim Vandekeybus’ steeped-in-sound production “nieuwZwart”. Now rock musician Mauro Pawlowski returns – live, open-air and once more with Wi...

Product Of Other Circumstances It created quite a controversy back in 1999, when French choreographer Xavier Le Roy, under the title “Product of Circumstances”, explained why he had swapped molecular bio...

Nino Bokan (HR), Alice Chauchat (F/D), Pravdan Devlahovi? (HR), Oliver Frljic (HR), Krõõt Juurak (EST/A), Zvonimir Kvesi? (HR), Ivana Pavlovi? (HR), Ivana Roncevi? (HR), Nina Saki? (HR), Una Vizek (HR) "The L...

"The Bagwell in me" George Washington, the first president of the United States of America, was a slave owner. This aspect of her country’s history is what Ann Liv Young – hotly discussed, perpetually pro...

"walk + talk" One of the great young talents of the Viennese dance scene is French-born choreographer Anne Juren. It is from here that she managed to start off an international career by analysing...

"Rosas danst Rosas" Perfect dancing, vigorous wiping, aggressive falling, but also shy touching characterise the style of the piece “Rosas danst Rosas”, which marks Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker’s inter...

"The Part" A wig, a fake beard and a fire extinguisher are some of the tools Antonija Livingstone takes out of the symbolic toolbox she uses in her solo piece “The Part”. The Vancouver-born Canadian is ...

"50 years of dance (flip book)" In the scope of the ImPulsTanz research project “Choreographers’ Venture 2009”, exceptional French choreographer Boris Charmatz shows that a dance piece can be based...

"Sylphides" Sylphes are immaterial beings, products of imagination, intermediate beings that neither belong to the living nor the dead. By means of a mechanism that reduces their vital functions to...

"Les Inconsolés" “Oh, come, thou dear infant! oh come thou with me! / Full many a game I will play there with thee”, thus the Erl king lures the child that dies in his father’s arms in Goethe’s tragic b...

"Nothing can surprise us" Life is nothing but a disaster exercise. At least so in Andrea Bozic’s startling group piece, presenting an intelligent, humorous balancing act by means of movement, language a...

"The Making of Doubt" Just because a human body is depicted doesn’t mean that there’s a human inside of it. In a bizarre tour de force, Colette Sadler mixes artificial and human performers, also ext...

"kings & queens" - Konzert Listening to the charismatic choreographer, performer and dancer Mark Tompkins sing is an experience that is bound to stay with you: the voice, the timbre, the hoarseness...

"Empty Holes" In his solo “empty holes – the life and love and death of John and Doris Dreem” from 1983, Mark Tompkins tells a story of impossible love. This work contains all artistic motifs he ha...