Kerstin Kussmaul & Michael Bruckner-Weinhuber
Labor: Musik/Bewegung

We will consider music and movement as equal partners and beyond the traditional understanding of this connection. What kind of relationships can be found between music and movement if music doesn't accompany movement? We will use principles of Authentic Movement - i.e. the non judgmental watching and listening of others and yourself for our questions. To realise our reactions to auditive and visual perception as conditioned by nature, culture, and personality and to deal with this as consciously as possible will be part of the reflexion about the process. In this sense this workshop is also a perception lab.

We also will experiment with synaesthetic perception (to see music, to listen to movement) for our creative process. And we will explore silence. 

Live music: E -guitar and (prepared) piano, bodies and environment.

The workshop adresses dancers (advanced and intermediate level) as well as musicians with experience in movement arts.


Kerstin Kussmaul
Kerstin Kussmaul is dance maker and Somatic Movement Educator. Her artistic focus is on music/dance projects and the development of new formats for the mediation and investigation of movement, such as "Vexations: we call it work", a music/room/performance installation which was premiered at ImPulsTanz 2009. She studied Pedagogy of Music and Dance, Somatic Movement Education and TCM in Berkeley/USA, Myoreflex Therapy and Yoga and teaches in Europe and the US. She is founder and director of IDOCDE (International Documentation of Contemporary Dance Education) a two year long project with 12 partners which is supported by the EU.

Michael Bruckner-Weinhuber
Michael Bruckner-Weinhuber lives in Vienna and works as guitarist, composer and "sound installer". Since 2001 he works regularly in Dance/Performance projects (a.o. with Katharina Weinhuber, Andrea Bold, Dominik Grünbühel, Vladimir Tarasov, Markus Kupferblum, K.U.SCH) and performs in Vienna (Tanzquartier, ImPulsTanz, Im_flieger, Wien Modern a.o.), Berlin, Budapest, Rom, St. Petersburg, Delhi a.o. Projects he was involved in are: Zur Wachauerin (Bruckner, Pollack, Kühn); Nifty´s (Pollack, Berghammer, Bruckner, Grünbühel, Koch); brpobr (Breuer, Pollack, Bruckner); Zum Landler, Ganz die Ihre und Artemis, eine (Weinhuber, Bruckner), Werk5, Klangvorhang, Installationen mit Wasser und Emaille (Bruckner, Hofstetter); Im Land der Schmerzen (Kupferblum, Bruckner, Tarasov); Maja Osojnik Band, Hannes Löschel Stadtkapelle, Capella con Durezza, znit, a.o.