venue: Sofiensäle dates: Aug 02, 1998, 21:00   In the frame of „These – Antithese“ Performances by Austrian choreographers Kurated by Helmut Ploebst Outstanding works from the fi...

In his brilliant soli “Bianco” and “Rosso” – “Fra Cervello e Movimento” the highly versatile dancer Emio Greco places the creative process of movement development in conflicts between control and the turbu...

In the narrowness of a crammed, shabby workshop the creatures of a bold puppet-master awaken to new life… Again and again the characters on stage meet in silent encounters, which are extremely funny a...

Grotesque obscurantists with astonished looks on their faces, dressed in frock coats and bowler-hats create a happy apocalypse. “Comedia Tempio” Nadj’s master-piece is a Kafkaesque apparition full of hu...

Alain Platel, who has enjoyed worldwide success ever since “Bonjour Madame” (IM PULS ’95), loves challenges. With his latest piece “A Little Something On Bach” he provokes an emotional and “natural”...

The story oft he forbidden love between a Palestinian and an Israeli... IM PULS – TANZ’ 98 is proud to present the brand new work by the committed dance company from Israel, whose members use their fas...

  venue: Sofiensäle dates: Jul 26, 1998, 21:00   In the frame of „These – Antithese“ Performances by Austrian choreographers Kurated by Helmut Ploebst Outstanding works from the fi...

Tompkins knows how to make fun of artistic conventions and a certain kind of aestheticism within the field of contemporary dance… He creates loving and sensitive portraits in honour of outstanding p...

  venue: Sofiensäle dates: Aug 02, 1998, 21:00   In the frame of „These – Antithese“ Performances by Austrian choreographers Kurated by Helmut Ploebst Outstanding works from the fi...

„One Of A Kind“, Jirí Kylián’s suberb, evening-long house-production for the 32 dancer of NDT I, premiered on May 6, 1998 in Den Haag. A unique gathering of prestigious artists from the worlds of danc...

The gala evening presents selected pieces from the repertoire and a brilliant finale ith all 61 dancers of all three companies on stage: “Arcimboldo” to the music of J.S.Bach explodes into an orgy of ...

Three spectacular companies in one. A hypnotizing, beautiful ensemble with the most accurate, expressive dancers of Europe – NDT I. A group of extremely talented dancers belonging to a new generation –...

Three spectacular companies in one. A hypnotizing, beautiful ensemble with the most accurate, expressive dancers of Europe – NDT I. A group of extremely talented dancers belonging to a new generation –...

P.A.R.T.S., founded by Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, is more than a school for contemporary dance, it is an artistic project. When its students present their works in their third and last year, they demonstrate...

P.A.R.T.S., founded by Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, is more than a school for contemporary dance, it is an artistic project. When its students present their works in their third and last year, they demonstrate...

P.A.R.T.S., founded by Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, is more than a school for contemporary dance, it is an artistic project. When its students present their works in their third and last year, they demonstrate...

Six women and men in colourful T-Shirts try to develop a choreographical pattern. Above their attempts there hangs a computer-generated idol, disintegrates, puts itself together again – a mighty clone, a...

  venue: Sofiensäle dates: Jul 26, 1998, 21:00   In the frame of „These – Antithese“ Performances by Austrian choreographers Kurated by Helmut Ploebst Outstanding works from the fi...

Ever since the late eighties the Japanese artist Saburo Teshigawara has raised immense interest. He combines choreography, music, light, set design and decoration, thus creating aesthetically astonishing...

  venue: Sofiensäle dates: Jul 20, 1998, 21:00   In the frame of „These – Antithese“ Performances by Austrian choreographers Kurated by Helmut Ploebst Outstanding works from the fi...

Tero Saarinen, the Finnish choreographer and dancer and his 1995 founded “Company Toothpick” is a real discovery. Their pieces offer the most original choreographies in Finnish modern dance at the mom...

  venue: Sofiensäle dates: Aug 02, 1998, 21:00   In the frame of „These – Antithese“ Performances by Austrian choreographers Kurated by Helmut Ploebst Outstanding works from the fi...

choreography: Marie-J.Chartier dance: Benôit Lachambre   venue: MuseumsQuartier, Halle E dates: Aug 03, 1997, 21:00

In his creations Bill T. Jones combines humour, intelligence and visual sense, thus creating a beauty seldom to be found on stage. The company was established in 1983 and consists of 12 extraordinary...

In his creations Bill T. Jones combines humour, intelligence and visual sense, thus creating a beauty seldom to be found on stage. The company was established in 1983 and consists of 12 extraordinary...

Sixteen years after its sensational premiere, which shocked the Parisian audience, the masterpiece by the French choreographer Maguy Marin has at last found its way to Vienna. What is more, this long-anticipated...

The new creation of Marie Chouinard, L’AMANDE ET LE DIAMANT, is composed of erotic and sensual solos, duets for men and women, trios, quartets and quintets which set ablaze an unadorned stage. An original s...

Diverrès’ dance is archaic, powerful and full of sacrifice, populated with somnambulistic figures whose movements seem to be part of a dream. “Fruits” is full of poisoning complexity.   venue: Volkstheater dates: Aug 04, 19...

dancers: Meg Stuart, Christine de Smedt, David Hernandez, Mark Tompkins, Steve Paxton u.a. musicians: Harry Dewit, u.a. visual artists: Lawrence Malstaf, Nadia Lauro, Maria Anguera de Sojo, u.a. CRASH...

Emio Greco is not only an impressing dancer but also an impressive stage personality. He manages to interpret human movements in many different ways, to make them look curious, controlled, playful, split...

“Delirium of a Childhood” is a dream. It is the attempt to perceive reality through the eyes of a child and its inner world – its sensitivity and perception of images and imagination. It is a journey into ...

“I wanted the stage to be seen as a place of absolute freedom. I wanted to make the audience aware of its responsibility. It’s up to them to fill the emptiness, to develop images, and to discover the...

Jonathan Burrows is one of today’s leading British choreographers. His bold, articulate and visually compelling works have been hailed by critics and audience all around the world.   venue: MuseumsQuartier H...

choreography: Bill T. Jones dance: José Navas   venue: MuseumsQuartier, Halle E dates: Aug 03, 1997, 21:00

WAGON ZEK is a dirty piece, a filthy place, where one is in danger of getting cut. Everything starts in the corners: the weak parts of the human conscience whisper that man is nothing but detachment...

  venue: MuseumsQuartier, Halle E dates: Aug 03, 1997, 21:00

Meinwärts MEINWÄRTS (‚To me’) is where the writer and dramatist Raimund Hoghe, Düsseldorf, wants to lead with his solo. ‚Meinwärts’ was also the title of his first text on Pina Bausch, whose dramatic ad...

Sharp, precise and provocative movements, subtle repetitions, which make the body revolt against compulsive rituals – these characteristic features of her choreographies turned de Keersmaeker in one o...

„Raumbühne“ examines imaginary patterns of human nature in time and space. Sebastian Prantl’s choreography makes dancers from different cultures cooperate in a work consisting of pieces, which is tur...

Sabine Sonnenschein – Exeo Miki Malör – Im Stehen Inge Kaindlstorfer (Lux. Flux) – Narzissenhörner, Haremsfallen Akemi Takeya – Körpergedichte Heike Keusch / Mark Willuhn – Time in Bondage 1 Androgyno...

Daniel Aschwanden – Einblicke II oder die Lust am Zögern (Exzerpt) Willi Dorner / Chris Haring – Intertwining Dieter Rehberg – Auflösung serscheinungen Heike Keusch / Mark Willuhn – Time in Bondag...

  venue: MuseumsQuartier, Halle E dates: Aug 03, 1997, 21:00

The creation of timeless dreamworlds full of fascinating images and the phenomenal body control of the shaven, white-powdered dancers – that is what the Japanese company SANKAI JUKU is known for all a...

The creation of timeless dreamworlds full of fascinating images and the phenomenal body control of the shaven, white-powdered dancers – that is what the Japanese company SANKAI JUKU is known for all a...

Vincent Dunoyer dances Steve Paxton, Elizabeth Lecompte and Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker. Not models but partners in a stuttering conversation, not imitations but fragile combinations.   venue: Kasino...

The snotty music of hardcore band “Stahlhammer” will provide an interesting contrast to the elegance and grace of ballet as we know it. Renato Zanella , director of the “Ballett der Wiener Staatsoper”, chose h...

A mythic bird – the magpie – and the superstitious beliefs winding around it, create the frame for the new work by Wim Vandekeybus. The magpie symbolizes good and evil, truth and charlatanism, reality and...

PARLIOPOMERA refers to the rest, to the parts left out, the parts unused.   venue: Volkstheater dates: Aug 06, 1996, 21:00 Aug 07, 1996, 21:00

Destination unknown and back Wide jumps and tightrope-walking – boatpeople, people belonging to nowhere and people looking for somewhere to belong – travellers on their way from here to there.   venue: MuseumsQuartier Hal...

The latest solo performance by the great diva of contemporary dance deals with loss of the female instinct and its restoration.   venue: Volkstheater dates: Jul 25, 1996, 21:00

The works of Josef Nadj are outstanding because of their black, macabre sense of humour. A complex, subtle, yet unpretentious style of movement creates an image of the more ludicrous and absurd aspects...

The works of Josef Nadj are outstanding because of their black, macabre sense of humour. A complex, subtle, yet unpretentious style of movement creates an image of the more ludicrous and absurd aspects...

duet from Joelle Bouvier (CH) and Régis Obadia (FR) “… this play consists of a certain ferocity, which is not at all cruel, but even pleasant in our ever so superficial and antiseptic world.” (“Libe...

choreography und dance: Édouard Lock “The audience hast to feel the desire of the person on stage.” (E.Lock)   venue: Volkstheater dates: Aug 06, 1996, 21:00 Aug 07, 1996, 21:00

BRUCHSTÜCKE I: Guest choreographer Randy Warshaws bold and fluent dance explores the physical and emotional bodies of three figures. THOUGH I CLOSED MYSELF AS FINGERS – Willi Dorner and Maria Polakova’s look...

The play by Jan Fabre, enfant terrible of the Belgian theatre, leads us into the world of fairy tales, where visions of horror and fear meet with princesses and magicians.   venue: Volkstheater dates: Jul...

Jan Fabre calls his duet a solo because it symbolizes two aspects of one unity.   venue: Volkstheater dates: Aug 06, 1996, 21:00 Aug 07, 1996, 21:00

CELESTIALES is a sublime connection between movement and text.   venue: Volkstheater dates: Aug 06, 1996, 21:00 Aug 07, 1996, 21:00

PASSAGE is not a play, but a piece, that enables a ritual to live outside its context.   venue: MuseumsQuartier Halle G dates: Aug 03, 1996, 21:00

Mathilde Monnier’s style is wellknown for its austere choreography, which abandons all superfluous elements to reach the essence of artistic expression.   venue: Volkstheater dates: Aug 02, 1...

Mathilde Monnier’s style is wellknown for its austere choreography, which abandons all superfluous elements to reach the essence of artistic expression.   venue: MuseumsQuartier Halle G dates: Aug 0...

With her company DAMAGED GOODS – founded in Brussels very recently – this outstanding discovery among the young choreographers causes confusion as well as enthusiasm among critics and audience.   venue: MuseumsQuartier Hal...

With her company DAMAGED GOODS – founded in Brussels very recently – this outstanding discovery among the young choreographers causes confusion as well as enthusiasm among critics and audience.   venue: MuseumsQuartier Hal...

The exciting choreography gives life to dreams. Subtle balancing of power on and around a blue couch provoke imaginative, absurd, yet comic scenes. THINGS FROM ABOVE takes us to the lighter and more...

part I: HOMUNCULI part II: ANTIQUE part III: VOYAGE TO THE MOON Her creations are always open towards other artistic disciplines. Traditional moves are constantly interrupted by unpredictable gestures....

documentary “The records of ‘Sarabande’ from the Corelli-Suite or the ‘Kameliendame’ do not only show the choreographical quality, but reveal – to all posthumous of her – the captivating personality o...

In a masterly way the protagonists of the two last Africa inspired pieces by Compagnie Mathilde Monnier build a bridge between contemporary and traditional African Dance.   venue: MuseumsQuartier...

Stephen Petronio´s table boasts everything the millennial appetite appears to crave: physical prowess, sensuality, excess and kinky chic.   venue: Volkstheater dates: Jul 19, 1996, 21:00 ...

Stephen Petronio´s table boasts everything the millennial appetite appears to crave: physical prowess, sensuality, excess and kinky chic.   venue: Volkstheater dates: Jul 21, 1996, 21:00 ...

As an uncompromisingly unnarcistic artist Urs Dietrich looks for the secrets of change and the disintegration of time. A seeker for rest within movement, movement within rest.   venue: MuseumsQuartier...

choreography: William Douglas dance: José Navas WHILE WAITING – an elegant portrait of individual struggle and transcendence in an eloquent partnership of life and art, choreographer and dancer.   venue: Volkstheater dates: Aug 06...

A choreography, which has been especially elaborated by William Forsythe and his interpreter, Michael Schumacher, for the solo presentation of IM PULS – TANZ IN WIEN ’96.   venue: Volkstheater dates: Aug 06,...

A complex and brilliant duet portraying the relationship of a couple in the nineties with wit, despair and virtuosity. Between attraction and repellence this capricious, elegant choreography proves exciting,...

“Channels“  presents the connection between dance, music, light and pictures, between things uniting and separating us, between eyes and ears, movement and its pace, time and its urgency, between the...

“I will kill thee and love thee after.” After last year´s success of “Francis Bacon” the Cie. Ismael Ivo and Johann Kresnik will investigate another kind of human obsessions. “Othello”, a world of f...

“Il Cortile“ reflects on psychological violation resulting in suppression or, in the worst case, loss of personality. A touching piece of Italian born choreographer Elio Gervasi who has made Vienna his...

Unworldly, magical and fascinating atmosphere in the new creations by Jorma Uotinen “Halla”, his solo and “7 Women”. The cooperation between the director of the FINNISH NATIONAL BALLET and INTERNATIONALE TANZWOC...

“Whenever La La La Human Steps performs, the reaction is the same: “an event ... a radically new choreographic language.“ Making a tabula rasa of the past Èdouard Lock has virtually eradicated the bo...

“Bonjour Madame...“ a piece about the world of the outsider, the maladjusted. Dance as the expression of an authentic awareness of life, all the hopes and desperation of the world. Dance as the outlet of ...

Screening & Talk : Cage/Cunningham & Beach Birds for Camera   venue: Filmhaus Wien dates: Aug 08, 1995, 20:00 Aug 08, 1995, 22:00

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“PA RT“ a legendary – of course always new – master-piece of improvisation by Steve Paxton and Lisa Nelson. To the texts of „Private Parts“ by Robert Ashley virtuose solos and duets are created in the mome...

This year Trisha Brown, a legend of modern dance art, will come back to Vienna with two Austrian premieres. The 1-hour choreography “M.O.” marks the beginning of a new phase in Trisha Brown´s work. In c...

“Alle Größen decken sich zu“ is based on the collected texts by Carlo Verano (1903 – 1992) – a “full head in a filled apartment“ who is occasionally overcome by the past. Wim Vandekeybus, fascinated by...

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Jean-Claude Gallotta refers to his choreographies as visual music or symbolized dreams. After his study of painting Gallotta studied Merce Cunningham’s abstraction. But his pieces deal with “narrative emo...

For many years Jorma Uotinen was the personal tip from Europe’s far north among the modern non-classical choreographers; today he is one of the most successful guest choreographers (last commitment a...

Exhilaration, imagination and irony characterize Régine Chopinot’s work. The visionary of the Ballet Atlantique whose wondrous ideas are marked by the world of comics and movies studies in detail th...

Exhilaration, imagination and irony characterize Régine Chopinot’s work. The visionary of the Ballet Atlantique whose wondrous ideas are marked by the world of comics and movies studies in detail th...