Thousands of professional dancers, choreographers and teachers from all over the world, come together, work together, for five weeks, in one city - ImPulsTanz.

1984. In Austria‘s leading cultural city Vienna the cultural manager Karl Regenburger and the choreographer Ismael Ivo launch the Internationale Tanzwochen Wien in order to give contemporary dance a voice in Austria. With six teachers - amongst them the well-known Joe Alegado, Germaine Acogny and Walter Raines - and twenty workshops, the two organizers get the festival started. A new dance culture unfolds itself and spreads out. Four years later a performance element is added to the increasingly successful workshop festival. In 1988 the ImPulsTanz Vienna International Dance Festival is introduced for the first time, featuring works by Wim Vandekeybus, Marie Chouinard and Mark Tompkins. All names that are still closely connected with ImPulsTanz, which meanwhile has grown to Europe's biggest contemporary festival.

Aiming the furtherance of contemporary dance in Austria, ImPulsTanz fathers the project danceWeb-Europe in 1996.The initiative initially conceived as mere scholarship programme focuses on the exchange of ideas and knowledge, not limited by national borders, on concentrated further training, on meeting with internationally renowned artists gathering in Vienna at ImPulsTanz with the aim to orient the career of the participants.

ImPulsTanz - That's performances, research projects and workshops. Contemporary dance establishment meets the trendsetting productions of tomorrow, which have found its place at the festival‘s [8:tension] series.

ImPulsTanz. That are the Trisha Brown Company, Cie. Marie Chouinard, Cie Wim Vandekeybus & Ultima Vez, Merce Cunningham Dance Company, Mathilde Monnier, Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker & Rosas, La La La Human Steps, Jirí Kylián & Nederlands Dans Theater, Lloyd Newson / DV8 Physical Theatre, Les Ballets C. De La B., Le Ballet de l'Opéra National de Paris, Cie. Josef Nadj, Cie. Jan Fabre, Raimund Hoghe, Cie. Jérôme Bel, Emio Greco / PC, Cie. Maguy Marin, William Forsythe & Ballet Frankfurt, Milli Bitterli, Salva Sanchis, Mark Tompkins, Ismael Ivo, Meg Stuart & Damaged Goods, Cie. Willi Dorner, Christine Gaigg_2nd Nature Dance Group, Jonathan Burrows, Akram Khan Company, Needcompany, David Zambrano & Guests, Xavier Le Roy, Bill T. Jones / Arnie Zane Dance Company, Benoît Lachambre, Vera Mantero, Saskia Hölbling, Alain Buffard, The Peeping Tom Collective, Tanz Company Gervasi, liquid loft / Chris Haring, Philipp Gehmacher.ImPulsTanz - That's more than forty productions in ten theatres with over 30.000 spectators and about 80 teachers offering 200 workshops to around 3000 students each year. ImPulsTanz. That is the constant search for the latest trends and tendencies in contemporary dance. ImPulsTanz.