"Description d'un combat" The very latest work by Maguy Marin. How is social existence even possible? Almost all works by the artist, who has long been among the most renowned European dance artists...

"May B" A strange group of shabby figures patters onstage. Several men, a few women in stained and worn-out white clothes, with tousled hair or nightcaps on their heads. They are waiting. But they...

"Umwelt" Maguy Marin’s vision is a choreographic reflection about our environment, as threatened as it is valuable; power and love permeated by a sharp wind and intensive sounds. Humankind wandering w...

"Faune(s)" It opens with a black-and-white film featuring four smart-looking young men enjoying their free time in Paris. A “wildcat” roams about the streets – sniffing, chasing – and nicks a T-shi...

"Investment" As a performer and actor, Davis Freeman has worked with such renowned partners as Forced Entertainment, director Stefan Pucher, the Superamas collective and his sister Meg Stuart. He is...

"What you need to know" You never know when the time comes to defend yourself and your loved ones. Davis Freeman provides practical information regarding the use of violence under unfavourable circumstances:...

"Oh, no!" Tough breakdance and smooth masculinity are the energisers for the new piece “Oh, no!” by young choreographer Dalija Acin from Belgrade, winner of the Prix Jardin d’Europe 2008. It’s a re-ex...

"AUTO" In his “choreographic object for several voices”, David Wampach cleverly plays with the construction and deconstruction of illusions, with the possibilities of an encounter between the dan...

"Under-de-Colors" As improvisation dancer, choreographer and dance pedagogue, David Zambrano has been among the most influential figures in the international dance scene for over 20 years. In “Under-de-Colors”, the...

"Under-de-Colors" Kunsthistorisches Museum, July 12, 6:30 pm As improvisation dancer, choreographer and dance pedagogue, David Zambrano has been among the most influential figures in the international...

"Manteau long en laine marine porté sur un pull à encolure détendue avec un pantalon peau de pêche et des chaussures pointues en nubuk rouge" “Be radical without being radically boring.” (Delgado Fuchs) ...

"Transformers" In just 14 days, renowned choreographers Eszter Salamon and Christine De Smedt elaborate a new group piece. By using techniques borrowed from physics, mathematics and computing science,...

"Dance#1/Driftworks" Two women dressed in white lie on dark-grey felt, apparently motionless. Only on taking a closer look it becomes apparent that their bodies move rhythmically to and fro. This motif...

"in pieces" “The body becomes a stranger to itself, hands forget where they are, feet lose their step, gestures dissolve in mid-action.” What the renowned theatre-maker and director of the British dan...

"Jetzt bist du dran" Austrian choreographer Georg Blaschke has engaged himself with the solo piece “Mensch im Wahn” (Madman) by Austrian expressive dancer Andrei Jerschik. It was created in 1929, pas...

"Culture & Administration" Workshops with Jennifer Lacey at ImPulsTanz 2009

"Last Touch First" Eerie constellations are created in a plain ambience as if in a ghost train of history. Bourgeois scenes derail into surreal images, and abysmal sketches of relationships develop...

"Vexations: Wir nennen es Arbeit (we call it work)" Repeating a piece of music 840 times – that’s a lot of work. Work that choreographer Kerstin Kussmaul and pianist Jan Burkhardt go to trouble wit...

"Vexations: Wir nennen es Arbeit (we call it work)" Novomatic Forum, 15. Juli, 23:00 21hours Space / Sound / Performance – Installation What happens when a piece of music is repeated 840 times? This is...

"Lovely Liquid Lounge" Jin Xing, choreographer and radiant figure of the Chinese art scene, presents an evening featuring various settings and performances. With her company and her stories she enhances...

"One hour standing for" - Installation with Live-Performance Austrian artist duo Michikazu Matsune and David Subal have tourism in their blood. This is why they packed their bags and went to see the...

"walk + talk" Combining the personal and the artistic is an essential characteristic of Milli Bitterli’s work. The well-established Viennese choreographer excelled with pieces like “Was bleibt von...

"Is You Me" Change of Programme „Is you me“ / 12. & 14.08., MQ, Halle G – TO LOUISE Due to a case of death within the family, the today’s performance „IS you me“ at the MuseumsQuartierm Halle G, 9:...

"walk + talk N°5" Many dancing professionals have searched for their own language of movement, but only few have achieved their goal. Austrian Philipp Gehmacher, who has made a name for himself internationally ...

Still Difficult Duet Pieter Ampe and Gui Garrido meet each other in a playful dance duet with the best of intentions: they strive for harmony and synchrony, however, the idyll lasts only a short while....

"Porcelain" “Porcelain” started off as an artistic dialogue between dancer and choreographer Preethi Athreya, composer Tobias Stürmer and sculptor Walter Stürmer who, among other things, creates porce...

"walk + talk - Disposition(s) #3" Upon invitation by Austrian choreographer Philipp Gehmacher, Rémy Héritier – who has had engagements with Mathilde Monnier’s, Jennifer Lacey’s and Gehmacher’s companies...

"The Song" A laboratory of images and sounds, movement and space, in which nine male dancers and one female dancer try to reposition the body in an ever-changing environment. In her latest choreography,...

"Opening Night ImPulsTanz 2009" Tony Award winner Savion Glover („the world finest tap dancer“ - Bill Clinton) will open this year‘s ImPulsTanz Festival in the main yard of the Viennese MuseumsQuartier with ...

"Bare Soundz" This is tap-dancing of the 21st century: audiences go into raptures over Savion Glover’s “Bare Soundz” wherever they turn up. This type of tap easily merges jazz and hip hop, and the t...

"Performance must go ->" In this piece, Andrea Maurer and Thomas Brandstätter experiment on transferring sequential art (comics, stop-motion) into a choreographic, installative practice. They enter ...

factory 2 - "Youdream" in process comedy Once again, the Superamas collective is working on a sparkling comedy, this time in their Factory 2 at ImPulsTanz. At various Factory stations, in theatres...

"A Selection of Rauschenberg Collaborations" Since it’s foundation in 1970 the works of the Trisha Brown Dance Company have been showed on the biggest stages of the world. ImPulsTanz and the Tanzquartier p...

A cooperation of Tanzquartier Wien and ImPulsTanz TQW / Halle E, October 2 & 3, 8:30 pm In October the new season at the Tanzquartier will kick off with a coproduction of the two leading Viennese dance...

"Orgy of Tolerance" An excessive stage orgy is Flemish art titan Jan Fabre’s answer to the “Orgy of Tolerance” of late capitalism. And thus also an answer to the errors of the raging fraternity of sp...

"nieuwZwart" (new black)" Belgian star choreographer Wim Vandekeybus has been fascinating his audiences for many years with his rapid and feisty dance style. His pieces are highly vivacious and so...

"Self-Unfinished" A table, a chair. A tall man takes a seat and pretends to be a robot whose limbs make a noise with every move – a noise the man creates with his mouth. Xavier Le Roy’s solo “Self Unfin...

"Le Sacre du Printemps" A dancer, a conductor and his Stravinsky. Xavier Le Roy stands alone on the naked stage. He follows the expressive movements of conductor Sir Simon Rattle down to the very last...

"bahok" After the intimate duets with Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui (“zero degrees”) and Sylvie Guillem (“Sacred Monsters”), this year Akram Khan presents a very special ensemble piece for three dancers of the ...

"The breast piece (praticable)" / "Ohne Worte" (praticable), excerpt Alice Chauchat’s “The breast piece (praticable)” starts with a minimalist study of the movements of the female breast. First, it is...

"WE" Chilean choreographer Amanda Piña, who lives in Vienna, has been analysing the “SELF” and the other (“YOU”) in her works so far. She resolutely continues on this path with the performance “WE” – a...

"Snowman Sinking" Virtuoso, funny, melodramatic and paying tribute to kitsch: Antony Rizzi is a sad, melting snowman, watching romantic films against a backdrop of erotic pictures. In a self-ironic...

"Can you repeat?" “Can you repeat?” presents and examines the body (or rather the mind?) in a state or process of trying and developing. The dance piece comprises two parts which are like two sides of ...

"Barbara Kraus macht ihre Lieblingsperformance " “Do what you love and love what you do” is the motto of Barbara Kraus’ favourite performance. Could this be the result of the performance “Fuck all tha...

"Is You Me" ATTENTION: THIS PERFORMANCE HAS BEEN CANCELLED ON HEALTH GROUNDS! They make a very special pair: Louise Lecavalier and Benoît Lachambre. Initially, Lecavalier – the world-famous dance vi...

"Orpheus and Eurydice" She is an enchanting nymph, he a gifted poet – and the first one at that. Canadian choreographer Marie Chouinard makes “Orpheus and Euridice” dance: their intense love, their...

"cuadrado_flecha_persona que corre" A white wall, as can be found anywhere, with light switches, symbols and icons, signals and signs showing the way to the next emergency exit… In her solo piece, S...

"Handle with great care" What happens to the memories and experiences, the pictures, objects and figures that remain in the constant flux of reality in our brain? Reducing the elements of drama to a...

"Nottthing Is Importanttt" This suite of three conditions - nine bodies, a movie, and a darkness and sound installation, by American choreographer DD Dorvillier, created in collaboration with Composer...

"Creating Sense" “Creating Sense” shows three dancers being continuously carried by a flow of movement – both physically and emotionally. The choreography works like an engine whose dynamics increase over ...

"SPITZE" “SPITZE” – an examination of classical dance, its people, its hierarchies, its worlds of illusion and its images of the body. An encounter between Susanne Kirnbauer, 1st principal dancer (reti...

"Preljocaj/Forsythe/Rosas/Chouinard" William Forsythe, Angelin Preljocaj, Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, and Marie Chouinard are the protagonists of the great ImPulsTanz gala evening in the Wiener Burgtheater. Manuel...

"Settlement" After Sydney and Harare Hans van den Broeck, cofounder of Les Ballets C. de la B., presents his project "Settlement" now also in Vienna. Social interaction, common acting and the necessity...

"God exists, the Mother is present, but no longer care" In this rough piece, Hooman Sharifi distills physical expressions of violence, anger and despair, and confronts them with projected texts until...

"dinner mit jérôme" munich_salzburg_vienna lawine torrèn sends "dinner with jérôme" into its debut performance in july and "love turn" into the next round. how the whole affair began: in the thea...

"Installation: Islamic Violins" “Islamic Violins” is an installation during which objects are being detonated. Ear and eye protection is available free of charge to members of the audience at the per...

"Sweat - The Movie" The intention is to produce a film telling the story of a workshop for dancers and choreographers, filmmakers, set designers etc, taking place at ImPulsTanz 2008. Participants will...

"WORKS BY 3/1 - I belong to no repertoire"

"Les Assistantes" “In an imagined draft there is no contradiction in wishing to live both alone and together at the same time”, according to Roland Barthes in his definition of imagination. In “Les Assis...

"[quick silver]" Butoh, often described as a dance of darkness, has left an indelible mark on contemporary dance. Ko Murobushi is a world-renowned Butoh practitioner and studied under the legendary...

"La bambola di carne" A doll maker, his daughter, a doll, which bears a striking resemblance to the daughter, a cheeky apprentice, who is after both of them and breaks the doll in dancing. Ernst Lubitsch’s m...

"Posing Project" A pose is something one assumes or strikes. Posing means to stand effectively. The dancers of choreographer Chris Haring’s highly successful Austrian company “liquid loft” show us ho...

Installation: "Sound of Silence" As an extension of the Posing Project, Liquid Loft will show an installation at Kunsthalle‘s Project Space and invites its visitors to a virtual symposium of deconstructed p...

"'I' is Memory" A crazy, fantastic memory space, extended by means of a wall of sound loosely woven by Laurent Maslé, forms the basic mood in the solo “‘I’ is Memory”, created by Benoît Lachambre – enfant ...

"How do you like my landscape?" This extraordinary performance by Manah Depauw and Bernard Van Eeghem was inspired by the apocalypse and genesis. In “How do you like my landscape?” the artists redefine the...

"gustavia" For the first time in her career of 20 years’ standing, Mathilde Monnier collaborates with another choreographer: La Ribot, with whom she shares an interest in humour. Monnier and La Ribot h...

"SaD SaM (revisited)" This is the fortune of manhood Images and image. Burning the calm fever of love. I press the button. He feels. Fainting upon the obstacle of touching. Nothing I care remains. He...

"skin, voice and memories of someone else..." Billie Holiday, Miriam Makeba and La Lupe. Moravia Naranjo’s latest piece “skin, voice & memories of someone else…” is about voices of exile and alienat...

"Installation: I hear voices" A delightful science fiction landscape made of furry hills is a chill-out area and a performance venue all in one. From 18 July, in the project space of Kunsthalle Wien,...

"The Porcelain Project" The visual beauty and intensity of Grace Ellen Barkey’s works is legendary. For “The Porcelain Project” the Indonesian choreographer, who has long been affiliated with the B...

"Pour tout l'or du monde" In his award-winning solo piece (English: “For all the gold in the world”), Olivier Dubois – well-known for his work as a dancer for Angelin Preljocai and Jan Fabre – themati...

"An Evening with P.A.R.T.S." P.A.R.T.S., the international dance school headed by Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, ranks among the best institutes for contemporary dance in Europe. This evening is composed...

"Striptease" In “Striptease”, the title is the motto: the performance by the Spanish choreographer is a striptease yet at the same time a video lecture dance performance about the mechanisms of des...

"Pour en finir avec MOI" “How is my body to be hurled into battle? How to do it? How to face it? How to prove the self? It is intimate and painful evidence of the self to find and situate myself in m...

"Dressed to kill... killed to dress..." “Whenever I wear such a suit, I can tell myself I’m beautiful.” Razor-sharp crease, loud-coloured silk shirt, perfectly matching socks, tie and handkerchief in th...

"[Slik]" They share an interest in breaking down bodies into real and artificial ones, the result of which are conflicts of aesthetic perception and feasibility. These in turn are areas for communication...

"Zeitung" Energy is bottled up, subsides and flows again. A playful exhaustion of possibilities of movement and endangered balances lead to feeling, searching and falling. A puppeteer guides his living...

ImPulsTanz in Kooperation mit dem Theater an der Wien "Steve Reich Evening" Date: June 17 + 19, 2008, 8 p.m. | Theater an der Wien The importance of repetition, amplification, and even recycling is well...

"The Manganiyar Seduction" Generally, music serves as background in the theatre. This time it’s the other way round: Roysten Abel utilises the theatre to create a magical surrounding for music. “I wan...

"EMPIRE (Art & Politics)" From “BIG” to “EMPIRE”: the French/Austrian performance group Superamas (i.e. “heap of galaxies”) is broadening its reflection radius. In its latest work “EMPIRE (Art&Politics...

"Seikes" Uncontrollable states of consciousness and hidden desires manifest themselves in Elio Gervasi’s “Seikes” in disconcerting shapes and forms. Triggered by a deep aversion against being touch...

"Scattered Crowd" - Choreographic object by William Forsythe To visit the installation in the parliament building you need to show your personal ID. Four thousand white balloons, suspended in a billowing...

"Another sleepy dusty delta day" In 1967 Bobbie Gentry sang her “Ode To Billie Joe”, and the enigmatic blues about the suicide of young Billie Joe still fascinates listeners today. The mysterious sto...

"Menske" How to survive in times when universally applicable values lose their meaning? When the truth does not go without saying and everything you have ever believed in is uprooted? How adaptable...

"Nous sommes très petits (face à la montagne)" They are intense dancers and specialise in amplifying intensities in already existing situations or structures: Frans Poelstra and Robert Steijn – toge...

"NKULULEKO" In South African the township youth culture is called “Pantsula”: it stands for a lifestyle characterised by screaming clothes and just as flashy dance moves performed on the street, acc...

"Feeler" Akemi Takeya transforms her life between Japan and Vienna into a concentrated journey through the white land of a light-flooded (Bruno Pocheron) stage gusting with the fading thunder of electronic...

"snow white" Ann Liv Young adds her transformed Snow White to the re-enactment boom. In the sweet, distorted fairy tale she discovers a wild, destructive and uproarious story of an initiation for which,...

"look look" Codes and poses of fashion shows are presented here with subversive understatement and garments reveal an astonishing mutability. "look look" was created by the two choreographers Anne Juren...

ImPulsTanz Special in cooperation with the Theater an der Wien: June 13, 15 + 16, 2007, 8.00 pm, at the Theater an der Wien The Belgian choreographer Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker and her company Rosas bring...

"Happy End - dealing night again" A slow dance’s march though the night. As if the elegiac, vanished rave culture had returned for a short time as a ghostly after image of soft, mechanical loops where f...

"Café Bon Bon" CAFE BON BON - THE FULL EXPERIENCE (evening ticket) Café Bon Bon... is a clandestine adventure through the city. It begins at 9 pm in front of the refrigerator in one’s own home, and...

"comme crâne, comme culte" The solo performance, developed for an idyllic courtyard in Avignon, shows the iconic figure of a biker – black, helmeted and faceless – transforming into meditative slow...

".../...(b)" Duett with Bruno Chevillon Rizzo opens up his workshop in order to demonstrate that acting means thinking. No matter how relaxed the atmosphere is, a little multi-media event that incorporates...

"Affected" After her highly-regarded debut, “Blowing up”, French choreographer Claire Croizé who graduated from P.A.R.T.S. in 2000, has developed an extraordinary choreographic trio. Three solos by t...

"Cat in a deep freeze" In her current solo “cat in a deep freeze” Saskia Hölbling sets off on an expedition into the cold. “You don’t have to head for the poles in order to lie on a bed of ice far ...

"shifted views" In Doris Stelzer’s work media images of art bodies, advertising bodies and everyday bodies acquire cracks and become independent. After her highly regarded solo “microscopic view” – a d...

"Amjad" Édouard Lock bores into the deep shaft of ballet history in order to bring some of its classic motifs, enormously accelerated, to the surface. With a sharply structured light show and borrowings ...

"Extra Dry" (Nouvelle Version) “Emio Greco dances the Martini.” (Berliner Zeitung) Together with director and dramatic advisor Pieter C. Scholten Greco has prescribed himself a kind of research lab...

"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...