TANZSALON 21
Exploration, Improvisation, Composition

TANZSALON 21 sees the human body as a source of exploration of the connection to and from the world.

The examination of physicality will be set through exercises and approaches from contemporary dance and Yoga, which facilitate awareness and presence of the body. From out of this tuning and this attention to the body (the we, the singular plural), the body will be perceived in movement. Material, such as text, images, music and improvisation structures will be provided and will enhance a game with everyone‘s imagination.
Dance as encounter with imagination and matter.
Dance as a game with thought and sensed material.

A plane of reflexion will be stimulated in the dance (of entities). Participants are invited to exchange their experience, their stories of daily life, of politics and poetry, as well as their various artistic practices.

Movement is the essence of sensations and actions.
By exploring the movements (everyone is familiar with) we gain the possibility to delve into various communication systems.

TANZSALON 21 is a laboratory, and a room for action and experiment.
In improvisation, dance and choreography take over, the form becomes less important, and we follow the traces of the New York Judson Dance Theatre of the 1960ies, which has back then held the opinion of: "Everything is dance! Everyone can dance!", in the transdisciplinary PerformanceConcerts.

TANZSALON 21 is a projection of methods and approaches to Dada, Fluxus and Situationism: improvisation, collage, random, instructions for actions, transformation and dreams.

At TANZSALON 21 we will reflect on perception systems of media arts, film, music, visual art appearing in dance.

TANZSALON 21 links practice and discussion, amateur/enthusiasm and professionalism, and is movement and game in different social contexts.


Sabina Holzer
Sabina Holzer studied contemporary dance at the Hogeschool voor de Kunsten Amsterdam / SNDO. Before that she had theatre and acting training at the theatre laboratory "der Kreis" with George Tabori and Walter Lot (Schauspielhaus Wien), as well as with Markus Kupferblum's "Totales Theater". She studied experimental theatre and bodywork after Jacques Lecoq and Theatre de Corbeau Blanc in France and the Netherlands.
Imagination, thoughts, language and text have always been and are up until now an integral part of dance according to her. Her work is based on Ruth Zaporah's Action Theatre, Yoga, Capoeira, Kinesthetic Awareness and Improvisation, which are important to her as a means of interplay between body and mind.

Since 1994 she develops her own works for festivals in Austira, the Netherlands, Germany, France, Israel, the USA a.o. and performs and collaborates with international choreographers such as: Daniel Aschwanden with Bilderwerfern (AT), Toxic Dreams (AT), Fabian Chyle (DE), Vera Mantero (PT), Jeroen Peeters (Author, BE), Lito Walkey (DE/ CA), Boris Hauf (Musician, AT) and Philipp Gehmacher (AT).

Since 2003 she is a guest for research projects with Sabine Sonnenschein, Vera Mantero, Hooman Sharifi, Silke Bake, Juan Domingues and organised collaborative research projects with Jeroen Peeters, Jack Hauser and the webzine Corpus at Tanzquartier Vienna, WUK Vienna, Vooruit Ghent, Le Quarz, COAX Production Stuttgart. In March 2010 she created the exploration room "On Listening" at the Tanzquartier Vienna.
She teaches exploration and composition at various institutions and groups at SNDO Amsterdam, Studio Warmoestraat Amsterdam, Tanz und Theaterwerkstatt Ludwigsburg, Experiment Tanz Berlin, DanceAbility for schools together with the collective Bilderwerfer, at the Academy for Music and Dance in Israel and the Studio Machfeld.

Since 2005 she collaborates with Lux Flux, Machfeld (aka Sabine Maier and Michael Mastrototaro) and the musician Martin Siewert, as well as with Milli Bitterli / artificial horizon. She creates different projects together with the visual artist Jack Hauser, such as "Paul Sernine und Miss Coochie“.

Since 2007 she writes for the webzine corpus: www.corpusweb.net.

Currently she works on the performance "It Is Not The Picture“, a transdisciplinary examination of music and the writings of Morton Feldman, as well as on the project M1+1 with mit Jack Hauser and Machfeld.