"Young Austrian Dance: works-in-progress"

"Subject to Change" is an open forum for presenting and affording insight
into experimental, unfinished and daunting work for emerging
choreographers residing in Austria, some of whom are part of the new
ImPulsTanz artist in residence program.

With:

Katharina Weinhuber (artist-in-residence @ ImPulsTanz 2005)
Ria Probst (artist-in-residence @ ImPulsTanz 2005)
Linda Samaraweerova
Radek Hewelt

„Subject to Change“ is part of: TURBO - Plattform Junger Tanz in Wien.


Katharina Weinhuber
Zum Landler
A Piece for Women and Men in Rural Farming Communities

"Zum Landler" portrays scenes of a "harmonious" marriage.
Widely accepted and common clichés provide the point of departure for this
piece. These clichés clearly know how to present the complex situations as
plain and simple circumstances. That's the secret of their success.
We love them.
The music and dance work closely along these simplified circumstances,
transform them temporarily into abstract formations that have a striking
resemblance the complexity of life, and in the end put them back in the
place they belong.
The individual and common search for belonging and acceptance, love and
comfort, security and savings accounts is powerful, yet it often gets lost
along the way in everyday life

Labor, love, loneliness, sexuality, obligation, sacrifice, work and work
and beer

Together – side by side – against one another – damned ZUM LANDLER


Katharina Weinhuber graduated from the Bruckner Conservatory Linz in 2001;
since then she has been working as a performer, dancer, choreographer and
assistant to dis/abled. Her collaboration partners include Andrea Bold, Judith Unterpertinger, Renald Deppe, Kathrin Roschangar, tanzpool, Bodo Hell and Detlef
Häusinger.
Her original pieces include „blinds“ - a piece for three humans and two
gods, Morton Feldman: Triadic Memories, Znit: IrgendeinSpiegelschaun


Linda Samaraweerova
Der öffentliche Körper (The Public Body)

"Der öffentliche Körper" (The Public Body) is a long-term project
conceptualized to encompass a series of different performances in which
the performer is presented as a "public body" by using a full body mask.
This project deals with questions concerning the identity that is
performed and taken on as a result of confrontations with the public as
well and in contrast to the identity that develops in private spaces. The
public body is not (re-)created by using the mask per se, instead the mask
is simply a vehicle for consciously playing with and constructing the
body.
Although each performance within this project addresses sub-topics using
different choreographic methods, the public body is continuously present
and functions as a constant and common denominator in all the
performances. In its current phase, The Public Body is concerned with
questions of corporeality and virtuosity.

Linda Samaraweerova finished her studies at PARTS in 2002. Since than she
lives and works in Austria, where she danced with several choreographers (S.
Prantl, M.Bitterli etc...)In choreographic cooperation she created pieces "Life Flesh", "L´eau de vie" and "Seconds to Choose" that were performed in Austria and abroad.


Ria Probst
HIT

actually it´s a love song
it´s a blank page
it´s a love song


Ria Probst has been a working as a performance artist, dancer,
choreographer and singer since 1999.
2005 Terrains Fertiles / Culture 2000 - residency program for young
creators / Bucharest, Vienna, Paris
2004 Dance Web / Wiener Tanzwochen;
2002-2003 scholarship from the City of Linz to study at the Moving On
Center and for independent study in San Francisco
2002-2005 artistic conceptualization and curator at Im_flieger at WUK in
Vienna
1995-1999 she studied dance education at the Anton Bruckner University
Linz.
Her solo projects include In Concert at MAK Wien - Museum for Applied Arts
and Contemporary Art Vienna and Im_flieger / Vienna and Installation Of
The Formless - Study 1 at Act Theater Bucharest and Tanzquartier Vienna.
She has collaborated with artists and ensembles nationally and
internationally in San Francisco and Paris, as well as with Somebody
ElseZs Company (Berlin), Oya Produktion (Vienna). Ria Probst lives and
works in Vienna.



Radek Hewelt
Short Impression On What‘s Before The Edge (working title)

The departure point for this work is the state of a human being facing an extreme situation: there’s a short time given – few days, two weeks, one month … After this border line everything that someone needs will be definitely gone, finished. What’s left? Short time to realize desires? Despair? Resignation? Hopelessness? … Surely a huge range of extreme emotions and behaviors. Very often out of commonly shared morality.
Movies from 40’s and 50’s are Radek Hewelts inspiration for this project as well as music from this period. He uses movie shooting and editing techniques to shape the material’s content playing with both emotional and physical distance to himself and the audience.

Radek Hewelt was born in Poland in 1973. Following his studies in pedagogy, he studied dance at P.A.R.T.S. in Brussels 1998-2002. As a dancer he worked with a.o. Lynda Gaudreau, Leszek Bzdyl, Elio Gervasi, Cristian Duarte, Magdalena Reiter. He is also an author of a few choreographies, a.o. „Zoom In“, performed in Belgium, Portugal, France, Poland and Austria.