The truly passionate archaeologist does not worship objects extracted from earth but worships the earth itself. Not the world, not earth but the planet - in it self, in its most anonymous. The Planet...

Mortality, destruction, reconstruction – this existential trinity is the focus of the latest piece by choreographer, dancer and long-standing member of Ultima Vez, Máté Mészáros. Together with five ...

In this never before rehearsed performance, Miguel Gutierrez explores his longstanding crush on Gunter Brus, who seemed the queerest of the Actionists, and who, more importantly, is a Libra. Part love...

A quick-change artist and his spiritual guest delve into the mysteries of the beetroot and its traces on white paper. Accompanied by musician dieb13, the video artist Anna Jermolaewa and performer Robert...

Beauty and radicalness go well together. Indian choreographer Padmini Chettur, who has worked with the famous Indian dance artist Chandralekha for ten years, demonstrates this once again with a performance...

„What is the grey life?“ is one of the questions addressed by Philipp Gehmacher in his extraordinary work my shapes, your words, their grey, which oscillates between installation, sculpture, performance, ges...

Kurt Jooss, one of the most eminent choreographers of German expressionist dance, had a very special encounter in Sweden. One result of his meeting with Lilavati Häger, a dancer who had emigrated to ...

SoftMachine (Indonesia) by Choy Ka Fai Lengger is a traditional erotic dance from Banyumas on Java, Indonesia. This is also the home of passionate dancer Rianto, who has mastered not only the aesthetically...

What techniques, what content and what dedication does it take in order for dance or theatre actions to turn into rituals? After collaborations with Meg Stuart among others, this is what Rita Vilhena...

Subject and object are looking at each other. A woman and a life-size doll meet in two worlds. One duet is superimposed over another. What happens as a result is called “assemblage humain” by choreographer Sas...

“Amazement is the first step towards insight”, according to Erwin Piplits. The latest work of his Serapions Ensemble puts this maxim into effect by means of poetic images and fantastic atmospheres. The...

The machinery of various dance techniques „contaminated“ him, says Sergiu Matis after working for instance with Nürnberg Ballett or Sasha Waltz Company. In his visionary piece he and the equally bril...

Simon Mayer’s artistic roots range from rural folk culture to the Wiener Staatsballett through to Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker’s educational institution P.A.R.T.S. in Brussels. SunBengSitting (“sun bench...

This is going to be a performance in tribute to the past and the battles to come for a better world. The Superamas collective tackle the connections between history and violence, whose relics are stored...

SoftMachine (India) by Choy Ka Fai What are the factors that make a dance piece a success in Europe? Surjit Nongmeikapam, a highly talented dancer from Manipur, India, is looking for an appropriate answer...

Six dancers oscillate between closeness and distance, between losing and finding themselves. In the blend of their varied encounters and individual isolations this heterogeneous group of charismatic...

Who remembers Mid Atlantic? Künstlerhaustheater Wien, 15 November 1982: that’s when the first performance of this piece took place, which introduced Liz King’s Tanztheater Wien to the public, thus hera...

She is 57 years old, has two kids and lives in a favela: Inês, the heroine of Volmir Cordeiro’s new solo. There is nothing she wants more than to become a reality TV star. But the price to pay for th...

SoftMachine (Japan) by Choy Ka Fai How can conflicting emotions like love and pain or apparent opposites like dance and violence be brought together? The answer is simple: with contact Gonzo, a unique...

The execution of the subversive drift "Trolling occurs if the differences of world view, opinion, identity, culture of two users are so profound that no reasonable change of arguments seems possible." International...

We might not be able to invite Andrew Scott, BBC Sherlock’s amazing Moriarty; but his name inspires the show: ars moriendi and ars vivendi as intertwined double arts of existence. A celebration of h...

An emergency call comes in. Austrian artist Akemi Takeya from Japan sends out an S.O.S. Which means: Survival Of Solo. But it has 32 other meanings as well. Such as Stagnation Of System, Scan Our Shape,...

Estamira is a crazy, dignified woman who converses with the ghosts inside her head in a fantasy language. Together with five creatures who are not penned in by the limits of civilisation, she lives on...

Young choreographer Albert Quesada combines most delicate through to ecstatic movements performed by five dancers with expectant silence and György Ligeti’s “Lontano” and Richard Wagner’s “Tannhäuser” overture to c...

The body may easily be mistaken for a tool. This is generally the case in war, and happens quite a lot in dance as well. In war dance, for example, the body that formulates metaphors is turned into a...

Together with the stellar American dancer Elisabeth Ward, Anne Juren introduces her new work on Pornography. In this very first of a series of tryouts, the French choreographer deals with a survey of...

What’s a small matter like gravity when shooting stars Cecilia Bengolea and François Chaignaud become weightless together with gifted dancer Ana Pi while DJ HIGH ELEMENTS mixes dubplate sounds live! Fo...

Zooming in on every detail, a camera moves through the depths of an artful arrangement of fruit and vegetables. In extreme close-up the projection screen displays an exotic, eerie world of togetherness...

A cool woman and a nonchalant man, both young, smart and totally trendy, doing their thing in the fancy world of social media. A world which would be totally authentic if these media did not play a practical...

Under the direction of Ismael Ivo, co-founder of ImPulsTanz and former director of the dance section at the Biennale di Venezia, the Biblioteca do Corpo now opens a new volume, following its first dance...

“Swan Lake” is the ultimate classic of ballet romanticism, an icon of European dance and as exclusively white as best fitted some 19th-century ideals. Is the work therefore condemned to forever remain a m...

When Caribbean-Canadian artist Dana Michel was young, she liked to wrap a yellow towel around her head and over her black, frizzy hair. She wanted to see what she would look like with a long blond mane....

His past productions include “The Stripper’s Practice” and “The Gay Romeo”. Now Daniel Kok dances a few steps further to tend to the United Europe that is cracking at the joints. Born in Singapore and train...

David Wampach, co-mentor of this year’s danceWEB program, is highly appreciated for his extraordinary interpretation of Stravinsky’s Sacre du Printemps. Now once again he triumphs as the master of “de...

Here come “Flying Low” and “Fiddling High”! The great dance improviser David Zambrano raised in Venezuela, Latin America, and the outstanding violinist and vocalist Iva Bittová originally from the Czec...

A bicycle is being repaired. The audience listens to fictional diary entries, letters, notes. Photos and live video images are projected onto a screen. In this setting three men are working, mostly quite...

With "La Notte Italiana" the dance companies Tanz Company Gervasi (IT) and compagnia zappalà danza (IT) launch an exchange project between Italy and Austria and present two world premieres in December ...

La Notte Italiana – an Italian-Austrian double feature of the companies of Elio Gervasi & Roberto Zappalà 03 / 04 / 05 December 2014 19:30, Odeon With "La Notte Italiana" the dance companies Tanz Company Ge...

This woman is a fighter. Florentina Holzinger became famous all over Europe on account of her collaboration with Vincent Riebeek with pieces like “Kein Applaus für Scheiße” and “Spirit”. The young Aus...

Humans and construction. Work and architecture. The built structure and its inevitable destruction. “Our ruins” was the working title of this piece by Gaëtan Rusquet before he changed it to “Meanwhile,”, which ad...

Dance in Paradise and in Hell. Two new pieces by renowned Austrian choreographer Georg Blaschke deal with the famous “Last Judgement” triptych (1485-1505) by Hieronymus Bosch. The way three women mov...

Between conflict and harmony, isolation and togetherness, three young women examine a range of events that arise from the emergence of hidden stories or the outbreak of urgencies. In her new piece, “Phenomena”, Gre...

Geumhyung Jeong tells us of the pursuit of the subject of her desire in the form of an extremely unique lecture that becomes a meta-performance of her existing work. While explaining her love affair...

“Moments of a rational touch“ is how Hannes Wurm calls his solo with a little help from Sigmund Freud, Cornershop and Andreas Hamza’s accordion. As a child, he used to peer down at his left foot ... a...

This is not your regular mother-and-son story but a piece about a real trauma. When James Ellroy, who was later to become the famous mystery writer, was ten years old, his mother Geneva was killed in...

Five dancers, five directions in space. Setting off and tilting away. Tipping, dropping – all that is possible even when the figures are lying on the floor. An Kaler, the young, highly talented choreographer b...

A curator and an artist negotiate the price for performing a piece. Since the artist’s name is Ivo Dimchev who is portrayed by Ivo Dimchev himself, the act of negotiating turns into an extraordinary s...

If healing is a choice then why not make this choice while being in the theatre?” Considering that it’s radical Bulgarian performer Ivo Dimchev of all people who poses such a question it’s to be expec...

Jérôme Bel is now regarded as having initiated a paradigm shift in contemporary dance: the great deconstructionist who reduced the art form to its basic elements, thereby providing a whole new point o...

New York choreographer Jillian Peña nimbly navigates between capitalism and Marxism. Her latest epic dance drama, “Polly Pocket”, was inspired by the latter as well as by queer theory, psychoanalysis and ...

Oscillating between masculinity and femininity or doing entirely without gender definitions, Polish choreographer Karol Tymiński relies on a body which acts like a receptacle that may be filled with ...

Three men beautiful enough to die for are dead. Their skin shines silver-metallic while they keep falling to the ground, accompanied by the magic-like, solemn sounds of “Baïlèro” from the famous Chant...

Where to go? What happens beyond the steps when feet are falling away from themselves, when the idea of striding becomes absurd? The “potential of impotence”, the “possibility of the impossible”, the bal...

In 1983, Lloyd Newson founded the multi award-winning DV8 Physical Theatre and has been its director since then. Widely considered among the most outstanding British dance companies, the audience in...

Eight Afghan refugees dance with Magdalena. And what those young men perform on the Western stage is a far cry from folklore. It is about the visibility of the past and the present and about their memories...

Breaking with convention, tearing down barriers and crossing boundaries – Meg Stuart cannot and doesn’t want to do it any other way. So her piece for five dancers with a total of 12 people on stage, bea...

Who knows what’s really going on in the perpetual torrent of our perception? This is a subject enthusiastically explored by scientists and increasingly by choreographers, too. Such as Michael O’Connor fro...

The trauma of rape is the subject of New York choreographer Rebecca Patek’s performance. In it, she tells a sad story: the protagonist, a young female dancer, works in a bar. She is raped on her way h...

The Norwegian-German choreographer Rosalind Goldberg presents the reinvention of the human body in her dance solo “MIT”. MIT is a female character developed by Goldberg together with the stunning dan...

A woman in a colourful suit is standing there, with her eyes goggling and her mouth opening in a silent cry like in Munch’s painting. An apparition. Possibly an illusion. What remains of what has passed? A...

A woman’s gotta do what a woman’s gotta do. In the case of young Chinese dancer and choreographer Zhang Mengqi this means taking responsibility for herself and risking a process of “self-education”. Her sol...

A young woman and a middle-aged man move about half naked in a tropical dream world boasting floating plants. They are being watched. An erotic female voice sings strange associations with nature. Marie-Caroline...

Pussy Riot meets Vaslav Nijinsky: Choreographer Christine Gaigg literally enters the Pussy Riot act and shows – accompanied by scenes of Nijinsky’s scandalous choreography of "Sacre du Printemps" 191...

The Viennese choreographer from Japan, Akemi Takeya, has expanded her successful solo piece “Feeler” into a female ménage à trois. The solo had her standing behind three microphones wearing a little brown...

According to Akram Khan, this feature-length solo for a large stage is his most personal piece to date. The outstanding choreographer comes from a Bengali immigrant family and grew up in Wembley, London....

iTMOi (in the mind of igor) Life. Rupture. Death. A hurricane of flickering lights and powerful music elucidates the unfolding drama. Multi award-winning British choreographer Akram Khan presents a spectacular...

How does Schuhplattling work the Italian way and as a contemporary dance? Alessandro Sciarroni – performer, choreographer and director – shows us. Together with five dancers he seizes the world-famous and...

This rather intense show is a celebration of freedom, love, lust, dance and rock ’n’ roll. The two young choreographers Amanda Apetrea and Halla Ólafsdóttir transform the dance stage into a volcano of la...

Sei solo The unforgettable violinist and conductor Yehudi Menuhin once said that the chaconne in Johann Sebastian Bach’s “Partita for Violin No. 2” was “the most brilliant structure for solo violin ...

This dance gets right down to business. “After a triumph of nudity, sex is now in the limelight of dance”, the French art magazine Art Press wrote in an article about the latest piece by the choreographic duo...

The body caught in the opposing extremes of being god’s image and a prison made of flesh. These days it is becoming increasingly possible to gain insight into the body and to read in its consciousness. I...

The incredible Lili Handel is back! Dressed only in high heels and sumptuously decorated panties, bald-headed and endowed with the voice of an opera singer, the queer diva moves about and manipulates...

Sensational dancers, fascinating stage designs, exquisite costumes and rousing music are the trademarks of celebrated Canadian choreographer Marie Chouinard. This time round she presents two extraordinary...

A performance in which things get to carry different meanings. Dusk is falling. Contours are blurring, shadows dissolving. The night approaches from the horizon. An amazing encounter may be observed:...

It’s dancing, it’s flying! In her new group piece, which is first performed at ImPulsTanz 2013, renowned Austrian choreographer Doris Uhlich examines a poetry of movement which can only be formulated by ...

Dancer and choreographer Eisa Jocson presents a unique phenomenon by taking an artistic look into the night clubs of her home country, the Philippines: in these clubs, young men perform sexy dances and...

We are sorry to announce that the performance "Makankosappo" on July 24 has to be cancelled due to an accident of Florentina Holzinger. Tickets for "Makankosappo" can be returned or changed to another...

A cosmos of stories opens up that appears to unite all aspects of life within itself. In this piece, Louise Lecavalier says, “everything is included: past, present and future, lightness, intensity, e...

Inspired by the eccentric theyyam dances in Malabar, India, where the performers – wearing wondrous, monumental costumes – transform into gods but at the same time create an intimate relationship tow...

What the world needs now is love sweet love … Love is a game and it is madness. It is fulfullment and it is a curse. Is love all one needs? In "Love Songs, the renowned choreographer Ive Thuwis teams u...

It’s an exciting game that is determined by various kinds of human relationships. The name of the game is “Festival”, and Ivo Dimchev knows it very well because his radical works have enthused and b...

February 23, 2013 | as of 18:00 | mumok, Vienna 18.00, Tour through the exhibition 19.00, Ivo Dimchev "I-ON" followed by music with Philipp Quehenberger and Didi Kern Ivo Dimchev, through his ecstatic...

Four dancers in search for the rediscovery of lost time. Time that is won and then gambled away again, that can also be consciously extended and reduced. “Colour, colour”, the current piece by young cho...

“What is dance to you?” – “And to you?”  Mutual amazement. Two strangers, who are fascinated by one another, show each other what it’s all about. It’s a meeting of two greats of contemporary dance in an a...

A new, outstanding work by French choreographer Jérôme Bel, which aroused great enthusiasm at its world première in Brussels, and was also well received at the dOCUMENTA (13) in Kassel and at the Be...

These two congenial performance partners not only share a wry sense of humour but also a sense that hits the mark of hidden meanings behind apparent nonsense. Dancer Jonathan Burrows and composer Matteo...

As a child he used to live at the coast, where he had two elementary experiences: there were some instances when he was close to drowning. And several times the water washed the bodies of drowned people...

An unexpected event triggered the creation of this work: the dancer and choreographer Lenio Kaklea forgot the PIN to her credit card. As she struggles to recall on stage what “the memory has veiled”, she...

A bacchanal, an orgiastic organism made up of thirteen bodies. Figures jostling each other like exulted demonstration models in a robot designer shop from the future: over-excited and virtuoso machines,...

Originally, Liz Santoro wanted to become a surgeon and studied neuroscience at Harvard University. Then she chose a career as a dancer and choreographer. But apparently some of her earlier passion for...

For some time now, the Viennese performance group Lux Flux, i.e. Inge Kaindlstorfer, David Ender & Jack Hauser, have devoted themselves to one of the most exciting dance avant-gardists of the 1920ies:...

The two time travellers Ricky and Ronny are getting closer to their goal in the third and final instalment of Dahl Bonnema’s “Tokyo, Paris, New York – a Pop Opera Trilogy”. After psychological breakdo...

“To be a bitch, or not to be a bitch, that’s the question.” This solo examines the ambivalence of a diva and, in this context, an obsession with the “perfect” body. Smoking, monologising and singing, ...

In Speaking of Which, two performers establish kaleidoscopic thought-connections making mental leaps between physics, philosophy and theology. In a dialogical structure between themselves on stage and...

Whatever happens, even when the world falls apart: the dance goes on. Come hell or high water, as if it were the last resort: dancing despite everything else that’s going on. Ten dancers accept this c...

An amazing comic strip of the body and its often strange choreographies. Drawings can best capture the poses of bodies and their positions in space. Based on their intimate knowledge of human nature,...

Meg Stuart establishes a rather unconventional frame of reference of continuance and eternity to superbly monumental music like Ludwig van Beethoven’s “Eroica” and Antonín Dvořák’s Ninth Symphony “From the ...

“As a child I dreamed of becoming a football coach. Now instead…”, says the physically disabled Viennese choreographer, dancer and philosopher Michael Turinsky in his solo “heteronomous male”. Heteronom...

Revolt of the mushroom aliens! Belgian choreographer Grace Ellen Barkey, who was born in Surabaya, Indonesia, lights fireworks of imagination in this turbulent spectacle. The legendary US American avant-garde...

"Over the course of 'Occupy the Museum', dance artists will focus on the agency of exhibition and display and undoing the ethnographic. Through interviews with the labour around the museum, the power...