"Basic Dance“ Paz Rojo created a solo. Then she began to work with dancer Cristian Duarte on a possible translation in order to transform her quite personal choreography into a solo pice for Duarte. T...

"incubator" The stage is an incubator. Inside, four figures unfold, stretch out, roll up and come to life. Each movement shows either one singular movement or is already a gesture. The young Austrian...

"Project 1" Ice guitars melting, bone-chilling sounds, spilled milk, shredded telephone books, microbiotic images on a monitor, singers performing on the edge of singability, musicians performing beyond...

"Raga For The Rainy Season / A Love Supreme" (M: John Coltrane) This is Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker in the midst of Indian spirituality and a jazzy love-stricken bout, in a shower of overwhelming emotions...

"Desh" Sparkling sequences of movement on pounded clay. The three exquisite dancers kick up fine dust with their feet that then floats around them as if it were a magical veil of haze in the dreamlike...

"Land Body Scape III“ This is spatial art distilled to its finest concentration in which the content is organized using selected leitmotivs and conveyed through using the universal languages of dance a...

"Et demain...“ What separates the banal from the powerfully meaningful or boredom from violence? It is such a fine line; and the finer the line, the greater the distance between the privileged and u...

"Young Austrian Dance: works-in-progress" "Subject to Change" is an open forum for presenting and affording insight into experimental, unfinished and daunting work for emerging choreographers residing...

“Dolap“ / "Sek Sek“ A man, a woman and between them: a refrigerator monster as tall as a person, center stage. The man (Turkish choreographer Mustafa Kaplan) makes the fridge topple onto the woman lying...

"Fuga-ce“ Italian-born Austrian dance artist Elio Gervasi artfully brings together a brilliant choreography with a highly charged interpretation of Johann Sebastian Bach’s “ Art of the Fugue” in his ...

"Le Salon" “Peeping Tom” is back. The Belgian collective that has continuously been well-received throughout all of Europe with their piece “Le Jardin” is now on tour with a new piece: “La Salon.” A...

"hey dude ..... i have talent ..... i'm just waiting for god ....." Two choreographers in African slums: the fluid choreographic field of experiment that Vera Mantero (Portugal) and the most highly...

"Les porteuses de mauvaises nouvelles" The dancers exert themselves to the point of exhaustion, until their overwhelming instinctiveness and animality burst out of them full speed. Darts fly through...

"ZZ" The glass is singing. The dancer’s fingers are moving along its edge, a gentle melody starts to fill the room. In her piece "ZZ" the Austrian choreographer Akemi Takeya, born in Japan, successfully u...

"MA" Akram Khan stands for dance and energy in its purest form; with his latest creation "Ma" his innovative, idiosyncratic fusion of classic Northern Indian kathak and contemporary Western dance enters...

"J’aime" Two young women who love to dance. In "J’aime" Anne Juren and Alice Chauchat show us why. Their stage is a glittering dancefloor. The enticing sounds by DJ Assault from Detroit have the flo...

"Once" A record player, a chair, a thermos flask – and dancer Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker. An old vinyl record: Joan Baez in Concert, 1963. The dancer is wearing a blue dress, similar to the one worn b...

"eigenSinn" We all know the Grimm’s tale of the stubborn child who opposed its mother, became ill, died, and even in its grave would not keep still. Antje Pfundtner takes this obstinacy as a starting p...

"Bocal: T.P." The French choreographer Boris Charmatz is not only an artist crossing many borders; he also takes a passionate interest in various strategies of enlightenment, and since he attempts and...

Chris Haring & Stephanie Cumming "diese Körper, diese Spielverderber ..." Chris Haring, one of the most original local choreographers where the interlacing of concrete and virtual reality is concerned, ...

"autant vouloir le bleu du ciel" A cloaked figure in a red checked jacket is plying with a variety of objects: shining eggs, flowers, and coins. Balloons filled with red granules are swishing, and taws...

"TRIKE – summer" A sequence of quick movements to and fro, like film cadres assembled in fast rhythms. Three female dancers are systematically building up their movement phrases upon small time units. T...

"Hommages" A bow towards life and passion - these are the four solo works with the title "Hommages", which Mark Tompkins developed between 1989 and 1998. He dedicated them to those figures in dance...

"Chorale" & "Le Sacre du Printemps" Animal instinct and modern rites: "Chorale" (2003), a stirring piece by the expressive Canadian choreographer Marie Chouinard, has ten dancers howling at the moon,...

"Hängende Gärten" A housing area in the 10th district, the flats are empty. So far they do not have a history. And yet each room has a striking influence on the behaviour of any body moving within. T...

"As if (it was beautiful)" Kattrin Deufert and Thomas Plischke are artistic twins working under the label "frankfurter küche (leipzig)", and they are among the most idiosyncratic and original choreographers ...

"Bonus" For the work on his solo piece "Bonus", Romanian choreographer Eduard Gabia has performed some radical experiments on himself. Extreme physical conditions like days of blindness or sleeplessness...

"Frans Poelstra zaubert" "Frans Poelstra, his dramaturg and Bach" The joke, the improvisation, the pitfalls of public acting, playing and dancing, his own stage personality and the presence of the...

"Frans Poelstra zaubert" "Frans Poelstra, his dramaturg and Bach" The joke, the improvisation, the pitfalls of public acting, playing and dancing, his own stage personality and the presence of the...

"Almost Dark" The thrilling experiment of a deconstruction. The psychological aspects of a family tragedy are being analyzed and then choreographed as physical battle between five individuals. How can...

"108 EB – Kammermusik für 4 Motoren & Bedienungspersonal" Excessive machismo and breakneck speed: Four combustion engines are hanging on steel cables; they are throwing flames and producing a diabolical no...

"Love Turn" Anna and Alex are driving through the city. Their audience accompanies them, and so does the ghost of the Russian author Leo Tolstoi. A rakish limousine serves as theatre: the front seats...

"No Comment" Do pictures stand for themselves? Or must they be commented upon, in order to gain meaning? "No Comment" is a TV broadcast which shows pictures from all over the world (also from the Iraq...

"XX with Alice" There is plastic surgery on cable TV, there are women, but also men, who shape their bodies in accordance with current taste. Julie Nioche is tracing these body forms (or formed bodies);...

"M - une piece moyenne" "What should we do next?" Vivaldi’s spring motif, the ringing of a mobile phone, foto stories from magazines, Barbies and Kens, masquerades and soft drinks, sex positions designed t...

"Déroutes" A network of hidden relationships developing on a stage that is bordered by a variety of tubes and inflatable objects. Thirteen dancers, male and female, are encountering each other on an ...

"Pièces" Four short works, merged to form a unity, constitute "pièces". In "8 mn" and its sequel, "12 mn", Monnier excels as a spellbinding solo dancer, in "sursauts" she dances with Bertrand Davy a...

"Publique" Monniers latest group piece "publique" focuses on a public phenomenon: dancing in a club. Here, dance is deconstructed to become a chronology of gestures, common property in a world governed...

Moravia Naranjo "atraída" There are days we find ourselves utterly confused, have no idea whether we are coming or going. On others we are seemingly taking pleasure in a world gone upside down, and ...

"La Mort et le jeune homme" Rachid Ouramdane took Roland Petit’s ballet "Death And The Young Man" as a starting point for his journey through the parallel universes of cyberspace: Search engines were f...

"Tanzgeschichten" A gentle noise caused by the grinding of coffee beans, which soon will spread their flavour all through the theatre. A smallish man, his back rounded by a hump, and a young dancer...

"02.08.04" Free, that is what Raphaëlle Delaunay wanted to be, and so she left the ballet of the Parisian opera, Pina Bausch and the Nederlands Dans Theater, to work with Alain Platel and to pursue ...

"Tempus Fugit" Time flies, carried by a wind of irretrievable moments heaping up innumerable layers of events, thus enclosing manifold traces of both past and current societies. In his latest piece...

"Public Property" Who owns the stage, who the figure on stage, who rules the body? Does the dancer belong to the audience, the state, the foundation, the company funding the project? Is she her own...

"BIG – 1st episode (reality show/artificial intelligence)" "BIG – 2nd episode (show/business)” BIG is the dazzling life as presented via the various channels of pop media - larger than life, sexy ...

"BIG – 1st episode (reality show/artificial intelligence)" "BIG – 2nd episode (show/business)” BIG is the dazzling life as presented via the various channels of pop media - larger than life, sexy ...

"Report On Giving Birth” In 1994 the choreographer Wen Hui founded the only independent dance company in China so far. Ever since she has pursued her ambitious and radical objective: to reflect contemporary C...

"Report On Body” Wen Hui’s Living Dance Studio is known for its highly personal, yet also documentary approach towards Chinese society. Based on individual biographies and with the help of many int...

Blush Ten persons, men and women, are chattering and screaming. A party resembling an all too ardously civilized bestiarum. Scenes that could make spectators blush, turbid dreams, hot fantasies, theatre,...

"Sonic Boom" In the heat of the night there are some people assembling at a deserted wharf: They will love each other, yet above all they will hit each other - and one of them is actually cutting his...

Calmly a naked man is standing beneath strip lights, is clogging his genitals, is putting on seven underpants. Now his looks are touching, like those of a big, freshly swaddled baby. With dandy like voice...

A high wall divides the stage into two parts. On the right side a woman, on the left a man. Video projections on the backside of each half. The two cannot see each other, but from time to time videos show,...

Two pretty young women in beautiful white wedding dresses plant themselves in front of the audience and proclaim: What follows is a treatise on the word „performance“. Subsequently they present themselves as ...

It is neither theatre, nor dance or television. Yet there is a stage and there is choreography, and it is transmitted via monitor. Fact is: „héatre-élévision“ is another masterpiece by Boris Charmatz. Extrem...

Aatt! Enen! Tionon! Three stage platforms. Aa! Chch! Tungung! Three dancers in T-shirts on three platforms which are assembled to form a layered, blocklike, five meters high sculpture. They are young and...

Six young women form a circle, lurk for each other, start a merciless battle, fall to the ground as if hit by lightning, crook and open their mouths for silent screams. „Haru no saiten“, a „spring sacri...

Christoph Winkler, young shooting star of German contemporary ballet, makes the live stories of two exquisite ballerinas, Margaret Illmann and Bettina Thiel, his starting point for an extraordinary piece:...

The performers are sitting upright along a table. There is raging music. A woman tilts forward and creeps over the table, a man drinks hastily, spills water onto the creeping woman’s face, dives down u...

„Sometimes it is useful to see an organism, even man, as a self-preserving mechanism“, claims biologist S. Anthony Barnett. „Regulation depends on change, especially change in behaviour. What is more,...

Saskia Hölbling, Austrian body composer and popular young choreographer, presents a new and exciting solo piece. With „exposition corps“ she continues her intense analysis of „the subjectivity of the bo...

The body as an orphan left behind, the end of the quest for harmony and consensus and the fragmentation of the body – Emio Greco and Pieter C. Scholten entwine these dramatic meatphors in their newest g...

A live wire, rebellious character, fanatic and passionate dancer: This is Bertha Bermudez Pascual, a tall, dark-skinned Spaniard who reflects upon her dance biography in Emio Greco’s and Pieter C. Scholten’s „Do...

A Hammond organ, a laptop, impressive Lesley loudspeakers, a man and a woman. And a memorial for the first computer that came to Iceland in 1964, a device of the type IBM 1401. Choreographer and dancer...

Accompanied by Steve Reich’s pulsating music, the Afro-Brasilian dancer’s mighty body frees itself from a narrow, wet and hot glass shaft and dives into a field of callae. This fleshy flower’s elegant bloom...

Jonathan Burrows, former solo dancer of the London Royal Ballet who defected to experimental dance, has, after theatre person Jan Ritsema, found another extraordinary dance partner: the Italian composer...

A painter and a sculptor who took their lives. An artist who went to Rome to destroy a piece of art with his hammer. A poet who wrote: „God, I know, you never saved anyone/ Yet I fear for me you will m...

Ivana Gottliebová has already been living for 78 years. A small lady with grey hair, a former circus artist, journalist and waitress. Choreographer Kristyna Lhotáková, 33 years her junior, is dancing a ...

Legs executing a raving pizzicato, arms scourging through the air, hands humming like insects: The ballerinas in „Amelia“, the new piece by Canadian star choreographer Édouard Lock, are wrapped in blac...

What’s the cost of life? Especially for those who are standing apart, who are neither particularly trendy nor telegenic? The English DV8 Physical Theatre and its choreographer Lloyd Newson are famous f...

Applause sets in. The artist bows in front of an invisible audience. The – fictitious – show has come to an end, and „Show and Dance“, a play about the mysterious offstage world, begins. Mark Tompkins, most in...

Three women never turning around. Yet through the eye-sockets of old men they keep throwing dull looks at us. „Manual Focus“, a trio by P.A.R.T.S. student Mette Ingvartsen, creates monsters. A twelve-legged cre...

An evening in three parts by Milli Bitterli. The Austrian dancer and choreographer who does surprise us with every new piece, presents two solo pieces taken from her successful production „In bester G...

A record player, a chair, a thermos flask – and dancer Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker. An old vinyl record: Joan Baez in Concert, 1963. The dancer is wearing a blue dress, similar to the one worn by the s...

Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker’s choreographies are reinforced by her unique musicality, which comprises classical music as well as minimalism and jazz. With her brandnew piece „Bitches Brew/Tacoma Narrows“ the c...

Working, editing, reworking, developing – these are premises of the huge dance project which Elio Gervasi, Austrian choreographer of Italian origin, has been conducting since last autumn. Successful l...

A dance dealing with the macabre geometry of war? Christoph Winkler created just that: Based on the absolutistic aspiration for a „beautiful war“, which followed the terrible slaughtering of the thirty yea...

A cosy nightclub. A woman the size of a two year old is dancing in tutu and toe shoes. An elderly man is throwing tomatoes at a tall blonde beauty. The same man will soon be admiring and caressing the...

Video as a window allowing glimpses on the media world behind the real world. Old movies, countdown numbers, a close-up of feet preparing for a dance: In „48 Almost Love Lyrics“ London choreographer and...

Ten persons, men and women, are chattering and screaming. A party resembling an all too ardously civilized bestiarum. Scenes that could make spectators blush, turbid dreams, hot fantasies, theatre, dance...

"Kaash" Just like Bengal lights 28-year-old choreographer Akram Khan radiates the world of contemporary dance; his refined, lyric pieces have already been awarded numerous prizes. For his new work "Kaash"...

"Judy was angry" Judy Garland tells the story of her life. In her anger the actress, the object of desire, talks herself hoarse – with a broken voice, for hours on end. "Judy was angry" is the second p...

"Mirth" The dancers are forming geometrical patterns within space, are being chased by frantic video projections, lose and regain control. "Mirth" by German choreographer Arco Renz is loaded with suspense;...

"Mpirahalahy Mianala" A man hanging head first from a wooden rack, holding a woman in his arms. The rack is bed as well as door or bus or raft.Travellers take the bus for a trip to the unknown, and on...

"Wer will kann kommen" Barbara Kraus is herself. First and foremost. The performer, the actress, the dancer, the seductress, the fighter, the feminist. Yet in "Wer will kann kommen" (Come if you want)...

"Not to Know" The two Canadian choreographers’new improvisation project, created in collaboration with stage designer Nadia Lauro, light designer Jean Jauvin and some of the most interesting improvisers i...

"Vivisector" An experiment combining dance and projection techniques, thus examining the possibilities for a digital decomposition of movement. Video and sound artist Klaus Obermaier and dancer and choreographer...

"Black Spring“ Toulouse-based African choreographer Heddy Maalem goes back to the very heart of his native continent, presenting an eerily beautiful, shocking collision of grandeur and misery, and providing a...

"not at all" In "Not at all", the newest work by Viennese choreographer Willi Dorner, the actors function as symbolic derivates of a cynical video game world that streamlines the body and reduces it to...

"other feature" The naked bodies of four female dancers, turning their backs on the audience. A look on a body’s surface turns into a vision of its internal universe … Young Austrian choreographer Sas...

"The Show Must Go On!" "Jérôme Bel" "Nom donné par l’auteur" Passion, drama, decline, and survival, this is, what film and stage are made of. The show must go on. Since the mid-90s French choreographer Jérô...

"The Show Must Go On!" "Jérôme Bel" "Nom donné par l’auteur" Passion, drama, decline, and survival, this is, what film and stage are made of. The show must go on. Since the mid-90s French choreographer Jérô...

"The Show Must Go On!" "Jérôme Bel" "Nom donné par l’auteur" Passion, drama, decline, and survival, this is, what film and stage are made of. The show must go on. Since the mid-90s French choreographer Jérô...

"Blackbird" Trapped! The dancer’s arms, head and shoulders are caught in an elastic tube extending to the unknown above. A voice can be heard from there. A formidable manipulator is at work, so it seems, u...

"Weak Dance Strong Questions“ How does a "weak dance" become a "strong play"? The answer to this question is provided by an unlike couple: Jonathan Burrows, ex-soloist of the Royal Ballet London, a...