The nefarious ambition to become an artist. The sacrifice of the muse who nurtures the artist’s posterity and leaves his body to the mercy of wolfish solitude. The kiss of death. The creation of eternity b...

“Where does the body begin and where does it end?”, was the big question posed by Padmini Chettur’s mentor, the great Indian dance artist Chandralekha. “It seems that the question is more relevant today t...

The ability to speak is a great gift and at the same time an immense cultural challenge: as a dance of language on the stages of society. “She just stood there, looking at the overwhelming beauty of i...

All life comes from water. But human beings have long since developed away from this medium. Fascinated by this “alienation”, the young Chilean-Dutch choreographer Rodrigo Sobarzo de Larraechea locates his...

International choreographers Dave St-Pierre, Astrid Endruweit & Michael Laub, Trajal Harrell and Benoît Lachambre as well as film director Arash T. Riahi are involved in this exciting experiment ...

The two charismatic performers Phil Hayes and Simone Aughterlony examine the fragile relationship between talk and action. They do what they say and say what they do – staged as a playful, humorous d...

This new work by Elio Gervasi, featuring 10 dancers, deals with order and chaos: what happens when our individual, arduously developed patterns of order interact with each other in a chaotic manner? Concept...

This new work by Elio Gervasi, featuring 8 dancers, deals with order and chaos: what happens when our individual, arduously developed patterns of order interact with each other in a chaotic manner? Concept...

Judson Church is Ringing in Harlem (Made-to-Measure) / Twenty Looks or Paris is Burning at The Judson Church (M2M) The avant-garde shows up wearing toga dresses! To serve his purposes, New York choreographer...

A passionate plea by Trajal Harrell and Thibault Lac for the beauty of a stage spectacle and the appeal of enchantment, glamour and celebrity appearances. The duet “Antigone jr.”, part of Harrell’s “Twen...

Is this man really a fashion victim? Or is the way Trajal Harrell’s treats fashion simply a reinvention of criticism? Anyway, the message the impressive New York dancer delivers by his changes of clothes i...

Extra miniaturist, but also extra atmospheric is the solo version of Trajal Harrell’s “Twenty Looks”. Watch the choreographer up-close as a dancer who reformulates the minimalism of the 1960ies in th...

Stirring words as well as a tragedy presented with a wink, featuring lots of catwalking and Voguing plus really extravagant costumes under magical stage lighting. This is how flamboyant Harlem drag meets...

The atmosphere reaches a climax when a gone-off-the-rails vamp transforms into a half-naked, female version of Prince singing “Darling Nikki”. And another as soon as it becomes evident that an exuberant, dol...

Festival Opening The evening's events will be jumpstarted by a crew of contemporary dancers and voguing divas and divos. They will be werkin' the catwalk not only with savoir faire but with a serious...

After Igor Stravinsky’s and Vaclav Nijinsky’s controversial introduction of the rite of spring to the world of dance, i.e. after 1913, many other choreographers have devoted themselves to this material, inc...

Without fear, a survivor talks about his way of living: confessions of a dance junkie seen through the eyes of the Belgian artist, director and choreographer Jan Fabre, who wrote a tailor-made, rousing...

This piece caused a veritable shock wave when it was first presented to the public in 1987. Extreme speed, utmost precision and breathtaking tension govern this debut piece that was to turn Wim Vandekeybus...

Tricks, distraction and deception everywhere. That’s the subject of this fast-paced piece filled to the brim with tension, sweat and lifeblood, in which four dancers, two actors and one live photographer p...

William Kentridge (ZA) Philip Miller, Dada Masilo, Catherine Meyburgh (ZA) Is it possible to depict time on stage, or to materialise it? After celebrated productions at the Brussels opera house La...

The street is seething. The sound of rebellion thunders. Wafts of mist on the stage. The noise of alarm horns. A remote-controlled police car races by, a small helicopter hums, going up and down: the...

The audience enters a different world. The hectic pace remains outside, and the stage radiates utter peacefulness. A herd of animals is resting gracefully in the sun, then again fine trees are swaying...

Charles Bukowski’s husky, sonorous voice talks about art and love. A comfortable lounge, lovely music and a video that is projected onto creased paper on a wall. In this video, a young woman dances: a...

in the night of Sunday, August 5, to Monday, August 6 with participation of: Cecilia Bengolea, François Chaignaud, Ivo Dimchev, Clara Furey, Chris Haring, Trajal Harrell, Benoît Lachambre, Philipp Q...

Breathing, panting, pressing and rubbing more and more vigorously against each other – Jared Gradinger and Angela Schubot from Berlin have choreographed a duet that has caused quite a stir. In “...

They stay really close to each other. After their success with the duet “What they are instead of”, Jared Gradinger and Angela Schubot attempt once more to reach the blurring of physical boundaries. Thi...

A magic trick is the epitome of the bourgeois concept of entertainment. – Whether this is true or not, the Viennese choreographer born in France, Anne Juren, takes the audience to the magic realm o...

How does communication work between music as a system of sound and the performative body as a system of movement? That was the question Azra Ibrahimović from Croatia, Aleksandar Georgiev from Bulgaria ...

An amazing travel through time to Paris during the interwar years. Deeply impressed by Isadora Duncan’s aesthetics, François Malkovsky, who has almost faded into oblivion, created his “free danc...

New venue: The performance of Christine Borch takes place at Schauspielhaus! A woman plays about with a long worm made of thick natural wool – a protection but at the same time an impediment. She g...

There are Mr T and Junior, an aged professional dancer and a young outsider. They have brought a few songs with them, which they put together into a good old variety show. Mark Tompkins and Mathieu...

A naked sphinx, with her legs in a white sack and a butcher’s knife for crutches. A body hanging from the ceiling like a carcass. And Ismael Ivo convulsing, gasping for breath. Johann Kresnik, w...

Trajal Harrell’s series “Twenty Looks – Paris is Burning at The Judson Church” was presented in the formats (XS), (S) and (M) at last year’s ImPulsTanz. And its success on the New York dance scene has...

Claudia Bosse (AT/DE) & Choreographers' Venture Group "your energetic democratic body!" Can a body be democratic? Are bodies political or antidemocratic? Or are democratic bodies “anti-bodies”? Que...

This structure must always seem a little out of place, because for Saskia Hölbling from Vienna it is a means to squat public spaces. Together with French artist Laurent Goldring the choreographer ...

An extreme experience: a man and a woman nearly breathe the life out of each other. This is how French choreographer David Wampach opens up a new perspective on Vaslav Nijinsky’s Rite of Spring in h...

The swans have changed. They wear boots, black leather jackets and full visor helmets, for example. A swan may be a strong woman, mincing on (demi) pointe while recounting the ambitious and/or absurd...

Nudity is bewildering. All too often, it is publicised in connection with violence. Anyway, this is how it seems to the two Finnish choreographers Eeva Muilu and Milja Sarkola, and their joint work...

Young choreographer Fabián Barba has conquered very many hearts on the European dance scene with his “Mary Wigman Dance Evening”. Now the artist from Ecuador presents his next solo. It is about danc...

Until now, Faustin Linyekula has been the teller of stories from his home country, the Democratic Republic of the Congo. He developed ten pieces with the Studios Kabako, a company with which he established...

A strong young woman in a very blonde wig dances in a white dress with light red stains on it, and she propels a wheelchair on stage: Florentina Holzinger between dream and reality, between fakes as...

Two god-like figures in frames of light. Bathed in mystical light and naked like Greek marble statues, François Chaignaud and Marie-Caroline Hominal do something that the old Hellenes would have ...

The solo by the young Greek choreographer Georgia Vardarou is not exclusively addressed to absolute dance specialists among the audience. Quite the contrary. While the title announces “Hardcore Research O...

Three young people dance beside each other. They avoid getting into closer contact with each other. Their eyes meet a couple of times, but that’s about as emotional as they get. Only the tempo and t...

„the P project“ P can stand for anything, says the Bulgarian performance artist and choreographer living in Brussels, Ivo Dimchev, and this is why his P project could be about “a policeman or a pro...

He had his breakthrough with the solo “Lili Handel”, and with four featured pieces – “Som Faves”, “I-ON”, “We.art.dog.come” and “X-ON” – he was one of the main protagonists at ImPulsTanz last year. N...

It’s heavy labour, at least in the beginning. A figure is trying hard to move in the semi darkness of the stage but doesn’t get far. Whatever is about to happen, the path is not going to be an eas...

It’s not hard to look into the future, provided you have enough humour: like Jennifer Lacey, who sits down at a table between two candles and makes predictions in her solo “Gattica”. For example, about...

A group of eight to twelve-year-old dancers will have finished an exciting exploration into the realms of the unspeakable, a search for the “colours” of movement in dance and the stories of the bod...

Counting To One Hundred is part of an ongoing body of duets by Burrows and Fargion, which build with non-spectacular elements but arrive often at a deception virtuosity, radiating delight even as...

“The first dancer was a smith”, Kô Murobushi claims. “The first dancer was a traveller.” And: “He had one eye, one leg, one arm.” But even before you may start to feel misplaced pity for him, the Jap...

„La beauté du diable“ The Devil’s got style, he is the master seducer on the back of the mirror of morality. And it’s left to Koffi Kôkô to unveil the beauty of evil. The legendary pioneer of modern ...

A room, with a form like a block and a consistency like a breath, is patiently waiting for occupants. It is liquid loft’s “Mush Room”: another masterstroke – after “Wellness” – from Chris Haring’s crit...

"Il faut qu'une porte..." Contemporary Ballet Gala with kind support of Ballet de l'Opéra National de Paris & Vienna State Ballet with choreographies by Nacho Duato, Jirí Kylián, John Neumeier, An...

The Beach... is a remixed journey to dubious locations. The entrance hall to an airport without gates, with flights but no destinations occupied with existences that has lost their ability to perform...

A flamboyant figure unpacks an awful lot of knick-knack and a few books while speaking his mind. The heavy make-up on his face with a stubble is crowned with a pompous rococo wig. US American choreographer...

„Die Scheinwerferin“ The flare of a small flashlight. The sound of a moving train. A table, under which Naoko Tanaka has set up a landscape on a black carpet with skewered cutlery, empty biscuit jar...

Three years ago, he danced his wild, passionate and threatening faun in Vienna. Now the French dancer and choreographer Olivier Dubois is a lonesome hero once more. A man who revolts. Caged like an...

An extraordinary rendezvous between the Old Viennese ballroom tradition and contemporary diversity. In the former “Grand Etablissement Gschwandner”, one of Vienna’s largest and most popular wine taver...

An extraordinary rendezvous between the Old Viennese ballroom tradition and contemporary diversity. In the former “Grand Etablissement Gschwandner”, one of Vienna’s largest and most popular wine taver...

"Programme III" - Special formats, surprises and "Perfektion" - An extraordinary rendezvous between the Old Viennese ballroom tradition and contemporary diversity. In the former “Grand Etablissement G...

A truly rare experience, an enchanting piece – Canadian choreographer Benoît Lachambre and singer, dancer and author Clara Furey have evoked rather enthusiastic reactions to the “shining downfalls” they h...

„Snakeskins“ Benoît Lachambre looks like an old fighting dog, like a vagabond or an avatar, as the protagonist in his solo work about the shedding of skin. Which is not a “fake solo”, as the reno...

In his new work Philipp Gehmacher takes the idiosyncrasy of his movement language as a starting point to examine together with performer Jack Hauser the promises and the failings of language between...

Raul Maia (AT/PT) & Thomas Steyaert (BE) Two young men enter the stage, put down their backpacks, take off their jackets and all the rest of their clothes except for their incredibly unsexy...

“Much of my work in the past five years has been about spirals. They are basic forms – as a growth process, as a development in space... I see spirals everywhere.” This is what Anne Terese de Keers...

Colours of the body that consist exclusively of qualities of movement and choreographic elements that overlay each other get Sebastian Matthias’ dancers into a “Tremor”. The result is not meaning, i.e. ...

October 15 + 17, 2012 | 19:30 | Tanz Atelier Wien “Music is the expression of the movement of the waters, the play of curves described by changing breezes” (Claude Debussy) A spatial installation wit...

Oversized graphic apparatuses and fantastic flight experiments, magical effects and rationalistic analyses of movement let Andrea Maurer and Thomas Brandstätter’s Viennese Studio 5 take off. In th...

TALK-SHOW: Perspective & Representation / Painting & Politics in Western and Islamic Societies with Jeffrey Ruda (Prof. of Art History at the University of California, Davis), Olga Hazan (Associate...

A spatial installation with Cecilia Li (piano solo), Sebastian Prantl (concept, dance) and Alexsandro Araujo Guerra (dance) with compositions by Claude Debussy and installations by Walter Kaitna “Music i...

"Tracce-in" To leave behind a trace, to cover it up, to lose it. People want to leave their own trace behind, one having different aspects. Concept and choreographic direction: Elio Gervasi Dance...

"Erinnern und Vergessen" What happens to feelings when the memories of the event that caused those feelings fades? A popular theory suggests that memories and emotions are inextricably linked. Is this...

“Tracce-in“ and ”Erinnern und Vergessen“ are like two mighty rivers flowing into or clashing with each other, building up currents of energy. The process of remembering seizes on the traces of the rel...

A concert is both a performance and a dance. But for ImPulsTanz the Austrian electropop band The Bandaloop go one step further for the first time in their history, presenting “Stardoom”. The smoky, dre...

„Here comes the Crook“ We all want to know what the future holds. It takes a lot of confidence and imagination, spot-on props from the present and selected memories of the past to speculate about it ...

Their approaches are very different, but Swiss choreographer Thomas Hauert, who lives in Belgium, and New York performance artist Scott Heron still found each other. In their intimate duet “Like m...

The queer New York choreographer Trajal Harrell strikes a blow for tragic-dramatic dance, as once embodied by US American expressionist Martha Graham, in this part of his series “Twenty Looks or P...

"The Power", is a historical performance, not only in Fabre’s body of work - this production signified his definitive international breakthrough – but it also reveals the end point, where the economy of ...

The title’s tautological structure (it is as it was) is essentially a double negation. This production is not theatre, and certainly not as was foreseen. What could have been expected was fiction, a...

Lighting equipment from nightclubs is used to alter the movement of the dancing body. In her two solos "Atomic 5.1" and "solo #2", Ula Sickle provides an unusual dance experience. Not only does the...

For their new production, choreographer Wim Vandekeybus and his company Ultima Vez have worked on life in the sea of images and about the memory that creates or destroys this flood of visual material....

„Si, viaggiare“ An artistic contest between human aliens on the unknown planet Lena. Nine members of provocative (“NO PARADERAN”) Swiss choreographer Marco Berrettini’s dance company travel to the va...

„Seven Cuts“ Dance, music and texts are layered anew over and over again, influencing each other. Renowned Viennese choreographer Christine Gaigg shows us what this may look like in the first performance of ...

„Vertical Road“ The globally successful Brit with Bengali roots presents a fantasy on spirituality that is as poetic as it is delicate, accompanied by the spherical sounds of Nitin Sawhney’s music. Inspi...

„Influx Controls: I wanna be wanna be“ He stands before his audience with stirring irony and fake explosive devices on his body. Boyzie Cekwana paints his dark skin black and his lips red, puts on a c...

„We.art.dog.come“ In “We.art.dog.come” together with two dancers and a dog, Ivo Dimchev fathoms out the boundaries between nature and culture. “It’s like a haunted house shared by Monty Python, Jérôme Bel ...

„X-ON“ Group piece with objects by Franz West Since their first meeting at ImPulsTanz 2010, Bulgarian choreographer and performer Ivo Dimchev is intrigued by the work of the highly acclaimed Aus...

„Les Trous du ciel" & „HENRI MICHAUX: MOUVEMENTS“ Canadian artist Marie Chouinard is reworking “Les Trous du ciel” (The holes of the sky), a sensual “Northern Lights dance” which she sifted out fr...

„An attempt to fail at ground breaking theatre with Pina Arcade Smith“ The former Forsythe dancer and current grand master of solemn frivolity goes wild once again. Together with Irene Klein (also a l...

„Twenty Looks or Paris is Burning at The Judson Church (XS)“ What would have happened, if someone from the colourful Voguing scene from Harlem would have come downtown to meet the pioneers of Postmodern Dan...

„Twenty Looks - Paris is Burning at The Judson Church (S)“ What would have happened, if someone from the colourful Voguing scene from Harlem would have come downtown to meet the pioneers of Postmodern Dan...

„allege“ Clément Layes – the dancer with a degree in philosophy – does slapstick of Chaplinesque proportions in his brilliant solo that circles around the topics of freedom, restriction and absurdit...

“apt? # 6: WE ARE GERRYING” Choreographers Paz Rojo from Spain and Cristian Duarte from Brazil investigate the feeling of “we”, employing language experiments, gestures, performative actions and an ...

„Parcours II - urban transmedia: lab in performance“ “Aspern Laketown” is emerging in the South of Vienna. Together with participants in the ImPulsTanz research project, Daniel Aschwanden is develop...

„Zombie Aporia“ In “Zombie Aporia” contradictory movements and rhythms ghost-light through the bodies of three dancers. Not unlike a pop concert, they perform short tracks in which absurd humour collide...

„ZETA“ They are both considered icons of improvisation: the impressive dancer, choreographer and pedagogue David Zambrano and the renowned multi-instrumentalist Zeena Parkins. They will share the sta...

„more than enough“ A woman wears a fur coat and her hair in a large bun. She is reciting. Clouds of powder rise up in the air. Baudelaire’s “Flowers of Evil” are delivered, Edith Piaf sounds. The woman...

„ROCCO in TWO“ Tactics. Aggressiveness. Two men in a boxing ring. They are brothers and adversaries like Cain and Abel, Romulus and Remus – or Laurel and Hardy. Inspired by Luchino Visconti’s Film “R...

„double points: HELL“ A dancer and her dark shadow, her voyeur and alter ego. The renowned artistic duo Greco and Scholten from Amsterdam choreograph the divided self as an inner conflict made visible bet...