As of now, tickets for the performances at Burgtheater and Volkstheater are available. They include big names such as William Kentridge, Dada Masilo, Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, Wim Vandekeybus and Jérôme Bel, as well as Alexander Vantournhout, who wowed the ImPulsTanz audience for the first time in 2023, and the Korea National Contemporary Dance Company with a choreography by Kim Sungyong, which will be performing in Vienna for the first time. Tickets for all other productions will be available from 12 June.
Photo: William Kentridge – The Great Yes, The Great No © Stella Olivier
French choreographer Maud Le Pladec can be seen for the first time at ImPulsTanz with her piece Silent Legacy, in which 11-year-old Adeline Kerry Cruz and her mentor Jr Maddripp, who also teaches a workshop this year, take Krump to the stage. With Make Banana Cry, Andrew Tay and Stephen Thompson playfully and critically reckon with the Western concept of ‘being Asian’. And Lucy Guerin is a guest with a double feature of Split and How To Be Us.
Photo: Maud Le Pladec – Silent Legacy © César Vayssié
The extensive ImPulsTanz workshop programme starts on 15 July. You can take a peak yourself, getting to know the range of classes on the day before, 14 July at 15:00 at «impressions’24», an Open Doors event at Arsenal, where teachers who are already in the city will introduce themselves and their workshops in words, but above all through dance. The highlights of the first week include the Contemporary Street workshop by the physically highly flexible RubberLegz, Rewilding the Matrix a somatic exploration by Kerstin Kussmaul and The Pulse Theory, a workshop by Gregory Maqoma that fuses rhythmic movement and cultures from different regions of the African continent.
Photo: RubberLegz © Jeremy Jackson
Before the whole of Vienna becomes a dance floor from 11.7. at the ImPulsTanz – Vienna International Dance Festival, Seestadt will be rolling out the dance floor for all dance enthusiasts from 8.6.–7.7. As part of Public Moves, powered by AK Wien, local and international teachers will be giving insights into different dance styles to people of all ages and levels in 59 free dance classes at 17:00 and 18:45 at Seestadt metro station. Festival favourites such as Janhavi Dhamankar, Karine LaBel and Marco de Ana will be bringing a wide range of dance styles with them, from Bollywood to African dance and flamenco, with something for everyone. From 12.7.–9.8., Public Moves will then take place at many other locations in Vienna, including the MuseumsQuartier, the Papstwiese, the Goethehof at Kaiserwasser and the Badeteich Hirschstetten.
Photo: Janhavi Dhamankar – Bollywood Blast © Luiza Puiu