Recognition is good, an award is better – but it’s best to turn good and better into art all over again. These were US American choreographer Trajal Harrell’s thoughts when he found out that he ha...

Wild dancing, energetic bodies, brute scenes and breathtaking sensuality characterise the works of Wim Vandekeybus, one of the most influential choreographers of our time. He has repeatedly dealt with...

The two artists introduce themselves as specialists in tone and movement painting. Their palette is the music of Claude Debussy, they use a bare stage as a canvas, the bareness being emphasised by...

As an analog and at the same time digital existence, this woman is one like you and me. Since the outbreak of the pandemic, we are more than ever enclosed in media structures - just like the outstanding...

It’s coming back – the joy of diversity, ambivalence and richness of life and the world that makes life possible. On the occasion of his company ZOO’s 20th anniversary, Belgian choreographer Thoma...

What could be more beautiful and more painful than unrequited, impossible love? That is the great, timeless idea in Claudio Monteverdi’s opus Si dolce è’l tormento, at the end of which the lyri...

Wiener Melange A lecture concert with piano music from Beethoven to Schönberg Wiener Melange. What does that mean? In an adaptation of a famous motto known elsewhere, we could say: Alain Franco's ...

The pose is the opposite of attitude. It is supposed to convince and seduce, sometimes even overwhelm, and in doing so best create a stereotype that is imprinted in the perception of the counterpart....

So the Nouvelle Vague shimmers today, illuminated by a blue moon to the vibrations of the voice of the immortal Elvis: You saw me standing alone. In Liquid Loft’s latest piece, the attempts at a...

Book Presentation, Album Release, Concert  On the occasion of its 15th anniversary, Liquid Loft will publish its first book in October 2020. Under the title Shiny Shiny, the publication collects...

Art? What would I be without it? I don’t know. But I dread – I see what without it hundreds and thousands are! (Ludwig van Beethoven) One often forgets that eve...

If this borderland of dance between India and Spain calls masterpieces by Akram Khan to mind, this is not a coincidence. Because Andalusian artist Jose Agudo was assistant choreographer and rehearsal...

All vibrance of the body is determined, among other things, by its breath: from “drawing a deep breath” and “gasping for air” to situations in which people “hold their breath” because they are simply ...

Ornament as a promise was the premise of the pattern-and-decoration movement. Committed feminist artists in the United States in the 1970s like Miriam Schapiro or Robert Kushner brought color, materials...

There is something very special about these British twins. Not only because the two dynamic sisters have been running their own company for five years and belong to ImPulsTanz as two of its longest-standing...

The latest work from the series Endangered Human Movements is based on a pre-Hispanic dance form used by the Spanish crown (Casa de Austria / Habsburg) in the conquest of Mexico as “Danza de conquista”. It ...

To this day, no one really knows what information and what knowledge a body stores over the course of a lifetime. So how is one to turn this body – all of it, not just the brain – into an “archive”? Last su...

Dear Madam, did you ever, for once in your life, in a fantasy you have never talked about, want to be Muhammad Ali in his own words? Or: Hey, young man, can you imagine formulating your resignation as...

After his album premiere Sculptures in Vienna’s Volkstheater at ImPulsTanz 2017, artist, performer, singer and musician Ivo Dimchev presented an entirely new concert format with audience participation i...

Due to the injury of a company member this  performance must unfortunately be canceled. He is Europe’s specialist in choreographic surveys of the relationships between the human body and the n...

An experiment may begin. It sets out to establish whether we have all become crash test dummies in the 21st century, and are being test-driven into walls, which are on the rise again these days. In this...

If an artist could be awarded the title “virtuoso of contradictory subtlety in dance”, Claire Croizé would surely be a front runner. This was already evident in her graduation piece from Anne Teresa De K...

Things are about to get intimate in an unusual way, because in this piece Dana Michel wants to know what sex education actually is. So far, the artist from Montreal has caused a stir with performances...

The title might make one a little suspicious. Because psychokinesis, also called telekinesis, originates from the obscure realm of parapsychology and means, for example, the moving of things by “mental p...

This is truly exceptional: Boris Charmatz and Dimitri Chamblas were only 19 when they first danced this duet 25 years ago, and they still show it to this day. Anyone who watches À bras le corps understands ...

Is this creature an experiment, maybe even a genetic recreation like Ripley in part 4 (Resurrection) of the Alien film series? Perhaps. In any case, what happens in this piece by the renowned Viennese...

This field project by the renowned choreographer deals with the creation of choreographic structures based on dynamic, contact, intuition and self-determined perception. Starting from a diverse vocabulary...

What a dream: One day, everything will be fine! For real. But without dancing and vaporwave it may not come to that. The art and music movement called vaporwave is “the gigantic natural aunt” of Ell...

Who is ready to fight for something? Actually fight, by risking one’s own life and with a weapon in one’s hand? Eric Arnal-Burtschy, a reserve officer in the First Division Scorpion of the French Arm...

Prospects have dimmed, opportunities are on a modest level, the general mood fluctuates. In this situation, one must not put one’s head in the sand, Frank Willens is convinced, because “then it’s reall...

Club culture is part of his life, ecstasy is an element of the default states of his mind, and his body can become quite provocative. French-born dancer and choreographer Frédéric Gies was shaped by b...

A 3 hours and 38 minutes dance performance in a space infused by the beats of a techno set by Fiedel (Berghain/Ostgut Ton) and filled with a floor installation by the visual artist Anton Stoianov, which...

Gordon Griffith. Who remembers him? In 1918, he was the very first actor to play Tarzan in a film. In a silent film, that is, which naturally ruled out the famous Tarzan yell that made Johnny Weissmüller ...

Closeness can mean many things: it comprises elements of kinship, togetherness, affection and likeness, and it is the key issue of great emotional longings to be intimately connected with someone or...

Um Jeito de Corpo: A firework of Brazilian savoir vivre on the stage of Vienna’s Burgtheater! Caetano Veloso is one of the brightest stars in Brazil’s musical firmament. His trademarks are: the poe...

“The reason they’ve no music in Texas is because they have recordings”, John Cage wrote, composed and said seventy years ago. The reason postmodern dance came into being in the USA is that this brill...

The “berserker” among the great choreographers for the theatre, Johann Kresnik, will be 80 this year. Besides his artistic excellence and not least in answer to current political developments, this is ...

Many people think that only the economy will suffer from the impending Brexit. But who speaks of art, of dance, of Jonathan Burrows, for example? Perhaps dance will overwrite the separation beyond recognition,...

The more serious the topic, the sharper the humour can get as it becomes a subject of art. New York choreographer Juliana F. May – her Jewish grandmother had to flee from Vienna – is something of a t...

Apparently, we completely underestimate our everyday life. Who stops to think about why they do everyday routines one way and not another? Train our bodies, make love, wonder around in the city or weigh...

In this lecture demonstration, Lenio Kaklea, examines issues of dance modernity, feminism, the configuration of the urban landscape in European peripheries, the dance academia and the art market today....

Stand-Alones ( polyphony )  Demons of modernity are looking out of austere picture frames. Bodies, as translated by Egon Schiele into lines and colours, show the incipient dissolution of the clearly...

Close your eyes and think of a vast ocean that extends to the far horizon, of the wind as it moves the water, and of the waves rushing to the shore. Then open your eyes again and look at these ten dancers:...

Hands shaking, bodies twitching, hunted looks on troubled faces. In this emotional piece, the bent, broken, yet ultimately harmonious movements of the five dancers resemble the undergrowth of internal...

An icy bloodbath. An undead being emerges from the water and gets ready for a bizarre ritual. Be warned: This performance is bound to give some audience members goosebumps, because young Estonian performer...

Now they are all finally presented together: the four extra-sharp Red Pieces by Mette Ingvartsen, to come (extended), 7 Pleasures, 21 pornographies and 69 positions. In her series, the Danish artist...

Now they are all finally presented together: the four extra-sharp Red Pieces by Mette Ingvartsen, to come (extended), 7 Pleasures, 21 pornographies and 69 positions. In her series, the Danish artist...

Now they are all finally presented together: the four extra-sharp Red Pieces by Mette Ingvartsen, to come (extended), 7 Pleasures, 21 pornographies and 69 positions. In her series, the Danish artist...

Now they are all finally presented together: the four extra-sharp Red Pieces by Mette Ingvartsen, to come (extended), 7 Pleasures, 21 pornographies and 69 positions. In her series, the Danish artist...

This piece features not one single film, nor ten nor twenty either. Instead, some 200 films appear in Rolling within the course of ninety minutes. After his success at ImPulsTanz 2017 with Fassbinder,...

Religious trance iconographies in the West are often represented from the tension between sensuality and spirituality, as the emblematic Bernini's Sculpture The Ecstasy of Saint Teresa, while the trance...

“Joy is the proof of nines”, Brazilian writer Oswald de Andrade wrote in 1928 in his Anthropophagic Manifesto, the founding document of a Brazilian cultural revolutionary movement. It also states tha...

Ask the oracle -the future is now-  The future is now. What an ingeniously double-edged statement in an age that is only just beginning to discover that it cannot be a good idea if everybody lives...

Their luck changed thanks to Instagram, which was especially lucky for the audience. In 2016, the two Egyptian dancers Noura Seif Hassanein and Salma Abdel Salam began to upload photos and videos of...

Pain Threshold takes its name from the measurement of pain the doctor uses to test the patient. In Perel’s work, this term involves more than the threshold of physical pain. Engaging in questions of o...

How this magnificent machine become so neglected? What an achievement in punishment technology set up on the island of exiles! And now? With a new commander, the old glory has faded. It’s barely possible t...

Words are dancing through space but they do not form a drama. Instead, they take the audience on a journey through three lives. This, in turn, results in something quite unlike a psychologising drama....

Words are dancing through space but they do not form a drama. Instead, they take the audience on a journey through three lives. This, in turn, results in something quite unlike a psychologising drama....

Music can be used as a tool in the fight for gender neutrality. After the success of All Love’s Legal, Planningtorock, also known as Jam Rostron, have released their fourth – celebrated – album, Power...

The hidden eminence behind this dance trio is French linguist and writer Jean-Pierre Brisset, a saint in the pataphysical calendar. He was revered by André Breton and Marcel Duchamp, among others. ...

Water splashes, wine is drunk and spilled and there is never any land in sight. Two strong women drift on the high seas in the remains of what may once have been a ship. They are on an odyssey. Like...

Unforgettable Elu. The dancer was Steven Cohen’s true love. “We loved beyond words, we lived and worked together, we merged together”, says Cohen. In 2016, When Elu died at the age of only 47, his l...

Wait a minute! What is this? Is it science fiction, a satire on esotericism, or simply reality, which we rarely get to see like that? Bad taste might be reigning here. But it’s just as likely that g...

“Aida!”, a man shouts, completely beside himself. “Where are you? Come to me!” And, with a slight accent, a lady announces with relish: “In the evening I walked along the boulevard, and the men hid b...

Does he know what’s going on with him? Is she in control of the space? Are the three figures banished into a loop? Time is a cold goddess. She rules the space and she manipulates the mind. She makes u...

Heaven help us! With utmost seriousness and devilish humour this performance shakes up one of the holiest icons of Christianity. Viennese-born Swiss choreographer Teresa Vitucci has devoted herself...

They hallucinate, they dream, they sleepwalk. Two young men are roaming a world in which the unconscious seems to have greater presence than any form of rational control. In the hypnotic reality of beats...

Like other people of their age, these two men have become neither younger nor leaner nor more talented with increasing maturity. They have reached an age in which the lords of creation often want to...

Recognition is good, an award is better – but it’s best to turn good and better into art all over again. These were New York choreographer Trajal Harrell’s thoughts when he found out that he had been ...

Flickering images in a frantic soundstorm. A beautiful woman’s face goes wild on four oversized projections. This is the stunning installation MODELL 5, one of the pioneering achievements in media a...

For many artists, coming together with colleagues from various disciplines to work on creative efforts together counts among the most intensive experiences. Scenographer and spatial artist Vladimir Miller,...

The little leader steps on a podium. Now he’s towering over everyone. “You will be my army!”, he shouts and looks down with wide-open eyes at the audience and his four dancers. In this game configuration, it is...

This is to be seen and heard: sparkling will be guaranteed when performance artist and musician Akemi Takeya once again will draw on her passion for both precisely composed as well as wildly imaginative...

Three hours, three performers, poetry including lines from Eileen Myles or Langston Hughes: Us Swerve, 2014, is a score for performers on rollerblades. They orbit one another whilst reciting, remixing...

Every once and again, the “Würstelstand” besides the theatre becomes center stage. Therefore, Andrea Maurer presents small poetical acts by offering whimsical short readings, which move between Dada...

Hauntology says Mark Fisher does not simply mean a “nostalgia for lost futures”. Not a longing for the past, but a search for the futures that we may not even remember. Perhaps ghostdance is just tha...

The Tongue, desire for language Over the past few years, Anne Juren has been unfolding a Fantasmical Anatomy as real as a piece of bone. In Anatomie at ImPulsTanz 2017, she expanded the imagination...

The Body, desire for symmetry Over the past few years, Anne Juren has been unfolding a Fantasmical Anatomy as real as a piece of bone. In Anatomie at ImPulsTanz 2017, she expanded the imagination of...

The Sexual Organs, desire for obscenity Over the past few years, Anne Juren has been unfolding a Fantasmical Anatomy as real as a piece of bone. In Anatomie at ImPulsTanz 2017, she expanded the imagination...

The Mouth, cannibal desire Over the past few years, Anne Juren has been unfolding a Fantasmical Anatomy as real as a piece of bone. In Anatomie at ImPulsTanz 2017, she expanded the imagination of the...

Belgian star choreographer Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker has developed a particularly intensive connection with Johann Sebastian Bach’s highly elaborate music over several of her works. Now she presents h...

Hell is on earth and nowhere else. This new creation is a collaborative experimentation on the interface of nature and artifice of the human body. This piece is the result of several short meetings...

For him, Japanese butoh dance is “a rebellion against Western dance culture and a quest for a new choreographic language”. Choy Ka Fai is well-known in Vienna since his Soft Machine project in Weltmuseum at ...

Everything will be fine, now that Doctor Choy is here. Choreographers and performers can breathe a sigh of relief, for they have been invited to visit Choy Ka Fai’s dance clinic. Florentina Holzinger, D...

“What I touched upon in Maybe the way you made love twenty years ago is the answer? I lead on now in Meet: more condensed, open and sensually experienceable. I give erotic encounters, which disappear m...

Theatre version After his six days of Performance-cum-Exhibition Marathon in 2017 at mumok Hofstallung, Ivo Dimchev returns to explore in what he calls his “Workaholic-Meditation” seven of his favourite cre...

After Ivo Dimchev’s staggering Facebook Theatre 2015 in mumok and his music album release Sculptures on the stage of Vienna’s Volkstheater at ImPulsTanz 2017, artist, performer, singer and musician. Ivo...

“What am I focused on and what do I want my audience to be focused on? Am I aware of the aesthetic/monetary value of the elements I work with? Am I able to control this value? Do I have priorities? A...

A royal bell rings for Orpheus and Eurydice, there was a special Sunday morning in May of 1955, and the heart chakra quivers. For all forty years of working as an artist, outstanding Canadian choreographer...

What remains of the body in the torrents of images in our digitalised world? Does everyone have to expose themselves on the Net to prove that they exist? Such topical questions dance through the new...

When Even The, Leonard Cohen’s intriguing poem of unfinished sentences, inspired Canadian artist Clara Furey to create a magically meditative solo performance which explores the field of energy between h...

Attention: the performance of 16 July unfortunately needed to be cancelled due to illness!(further details below) Néant Void The amusing figure with a beard and blonde wig in a clothes bag among ...

Rwandan performance artist Dorothée Munyaneza traveled to her homeland to create this testimony of female strength. She is drawing from stories told to her by women who were victims of rape as a weapon ...

The Valeska Gert Museum is an imaginary museum that operates through a collection of performative acts related to the life and work of the German avant-garde artist Valeska Gert. In her extraordinary...

When is a man just a rack – and how frequently one that acts as if it were a bull? And what does it look like when a god is taken apart good and proper? Florentina Holzinger has some answers to these q...

Who is this fabulous figure, this shapeshifting visitor from a long-gone yet never entirely forgotten world? Maybe it’s the spirit of Virginia Woolf’s Orlando, who turned into a woman overnight, tha...

Who is in control here, who has the power? The solo dancer on her sound-generating metal plate or the choreographer who “interferes” live alongside her? A camera, a projection screen and sophisticated sou...

After four weeks of intensive dancing students present excerpts of their achievements. Free admission!

Loneliness is when the rice cooker becomes the only “person” to talk to in life. In South Korea, this state of being is called golibmuwon – helpless isolation. After an economic crisis 20 years ago, ...

“Body as oracle, a trance, a rhythmic interface, an atmosphere, a landscape with the texture of my current mental state. A dance informed by everything and everyone I have ever encountered, seen, heard, f...