ImPulsTanz - Vienna International Dance Festival

Vienna International Dance Festival

10.7.–10.8.2025

Founded in 1984, ImPulsTanz – Vienna International Dance Festival has over the years evolved into the largest festival for contemporary dance and performance in the world. Every summer it presents a uniquely diverse programme of performances, workshops, research projects and musical acts.

From 5 December 2024, tickets will be available for selected productions at the Burgtheater and for productions in cooperation with Johann Strauss 2025 Vienna.

PERFORMANCES

Every year ImPulsTanz presents more than 50 productions by international as well as Austrian artists and companies in an extraordinary density in the theatres and museums of Vienna.

Pre-sale tickets will be available from 5 December 2024

Tickets will be available from 5 December online, by phone via +43.1.235 00 22, and at the ImPulsTanz office at Neustiftgasse 3/12, 1070 Vienna. Registered Early Bird customers can exclusively purchase their tickets one day earlier, on 4 December 2024 from 14:00, via Culturall and will receive a 10 % discount on up to two tickets per production for bookings made by 12 December.

Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch + Terrain Boris Charmatz — Café Müller © Ursula Kaufmann

The first ImPulsTanz highlights are now available

The Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch + Terrain Boris Charmatz open the festival with two productions: Love and desire await the audience in CLUB AMOUR. Café Müller / Aatt enen tionon / herses, duo. This Austrian premiere combines two works by Boris Charmatz with Bausch’s iconic Café Müller from 1978. Meanwhile, in the masterpiece Nelken. Ein Stück von Pina Bausch, the same company explores love and being loved amidst a sea of pink flowers. Sasha Waltz presents In C to music by Terry Riley, and Akram Khan Company and Manal AlDowayan present their first collaboration, Thikra: Night of Remembering.

Photo: Sasha Waltz & Guests, Terry Riley – In C © Yanina Isla

ImPulsTanz meets Johann Strauss 2025 Vienna

As part of Johann Strauss 2025 Vienna, three productions created in collaboration with ImPulsTanz will be presented: French choreographer Mathilde Monnier and the Dance On Ensemble explore a deeply personal journey into the world of Johann Strauss in the world premiere of MUSIQUE – In the Spirit of Johann Strauss, set to piano music by composer Judit Varga. Meanwhile, choreographer Eva-Maria Schaller and composer Wolfgang Mitterer dive into a joyous apocalypse in Walzerwut. Finally, Belgian choreographer Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, together with dancers from Ballet du Grand Théâtre de Genève and the Wiener Kammerorchester, reimagines the historical ballroom in the Austrian premiere of Imperial Ball.

Photo: Mathilde Monnier / Dance On Ensemble – MUSIQUE – In the Spirit of Johann Strauss © Wien Museum / Illustration: Gruppe am Park

PERFORMANCES SERVICE REGISTER AS EARLY BIRD

NEWS

[8:TENSION] PODCAST #16 WITH J. BOUEY & TYRONE BEVANS

This episode’s guests are j. bouey and Tyrone Bevans, both waacking dancers and choreographers based in New York. With author Sean Pfeiffer, they discuss the history of waacking and the world premiere of their duet A Message at ImPulsTanz. They also talk about finding inspiration in the 1970s and dance as a vehicle for liberation.

The [8:tension] podcast is available on the Life Long Burning website, on Spotify, Podcastaddict and Deezer. New episodes every Thursday!

Education and training programmes 2025

ImPulsTanz is looking forward to network and invite the international dance world to Vienna once again in 2025. In addition to ATLAS – create your dance trails for artists with first choreographic experience as well as mid-career artists (coaches: Guy Cools or Christopher Matthews) and danceWEB for young dancers and choreographers (mentor: Raja Feather Kelly), the further education programme ImPacT (mentor: Kerstin Kussmaul), which is dedicated to connecting dance students with experienced professionals, will also be offered. Applications are open as of right now!

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In 150 performances, we celebrated in 2024 with more than 60,000 visitors in the theatres and museums of Vienna. We danced through approximately 43,800 course units in 268 workshops and research projects at Arsenal. We took dancing outdoors during 357 free Public Moves classes with 18,000 participants and 26,000 spectators. And we wrapped up the over 32 ImPulsTanz nights with around 25,000 night owls at the Festival Lounge at Burgtheater Vestibül and the Vienna City Hall. In total, more than 180,000 people danced, watched and celebrated with us, embracing dance in all its forms. Thank you to everyone who was part of it – we’ll see you at the next ImPulsTanz Festival from 10 July to 10 August 2025! Visit our archive and our photo and video galleries to reminisce.

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ImPulsTanz Performances 2024

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