ImPulsTanz Archive

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An emergency call comes in. Austrian artist Akemi Takeya from Japan sends out an S.O.S. Which means: Survival Of Solo. But it has 32 other meanings as well. Such as Stagnation Of System, Scan Our Shape,...

2014

Alain Platel / les ballets C de la B & Münchner Kammerspiele

tauberbach

Estamira is a crazy, dignified woman who converses with the ghosts inside her head in a fantasy language. Together with five creatures who are not penned in by the limits of civilisation, she lives on...

2014

Albert Quesada

Wagner & Ligeti

Young choreographer Albert Quesada combines most delicate through to ecstatic movements performed by five dancers with expectant silence and György Ligeti’s “Lontano” and Richard Wagner’s “Tannhäuser” overture to c...

[8:tension] 2014

Amanda Piña / nadaproductions

WAR

The body may easily be mistaken for a tool. This is generally the case in war, and happens quite a lot in dance as well. In war dance, for example, the body that formulates metaphors is turned into a...

2014

Anne Juren

Pornography: A Trying-Out

Together with the stellar American dancer Elisabeth Ward, Anne Juren introduces her new work on Pornography. In this very first of a series of tryouts, the French choreographer deals with a survey of...

2014

Cecilia Bengolea & François Chaignaud

Dub Love

What’s a small matter like gravity when shooting stars Cecilia Bengolea and François Chaignaud become weightless together with gifted dancer Ana Pi while DJ HIGH ELEMENTS mixes dubplate sounds live! Fo...

2014

Chris Haring / Liquid Loft

Deep Dish

Zooming in on every detail, a camera moves through the depths of an artful arrangement of fruit and vegetables. In extreme close-up the projection screen displays an exotic, eerie world of togetherness...

2014

Chris Haring / Liquid Loft

Talking Head

A cool woman and a nonchalant man, both young, smart and totally trendy, doing their thing in the fancy world of social media. A world which would be totally authentic if these media did not play a practical...

2014

Cie. Ismael Ivo & Grupo Biblioteca do Corpo

Erendira

Under the direction of Ismael Ivo, co-founder of ImPulsTanz and former director of the dance section at the Biennale di Venezia, the Biblioteca do Corpo now opens a new volume, following its first dance...

2014

Dada Masilo / The Dance Factory

Swan Lake

“Swan Lake” is the ultimate classic of ballet romanticism, an icon of European dance and as exclusively white as best fitted some 19th-century ideals. Is the work therefore condemned to forever remain a m...

2014

Dana Michel

Yellow Towel

When Caribbean-Canadian artist Dana Michel was young, she liked to wrap a yellow towel around her head and over her black, frizzy hair. She wanted to see what she would look like with a long blond mane....

[8:tension] 2014

Daniel Kok

Cheerleader of Europe

His past productions include “The Stripper’s Practice” and “The Gay Romeo”. Now Daniel Kok dances a few steps further to tend to the United Europe that is cracking at the joints. Born in Singapore and train...

[8:tension] 2014

David Wampach

TOUR

David Wampach, co-mentor of this year’s danceWEB program, is highly appreciated for his extraordinary interpretation of Stravinsky’s Sacre du Printemps. Now once again he triumphs as the master of “de...

2014

David Zambrano & Iva Bittová

Why Not!

Here come “Flying Low” and “Fiddling High”! The great dance improviser David Zambrano raised in Venezuela, Latin America, and the outstanding violinist and vocalist Iva Bittová originally from the Czec...

2014

Dinis Machado

Black Cats Can See In The Dark But Are Not Seen

A bicycle is being repaired. The audience listens to fictional diary entries, letters, notes. Photos and live video images are projected onto a screen. In this setting three men are working, mostly quite...

[8:tension] 2014

Elio Gervasi & Roberto Zappalà

La Notte Italiana

With "La Notte Italiana" the dance companies Tanz Company Gervasi (IT) and compagnia zappalà danza (IT) launch an exchange project between Italy and Austria and present two world premieres in December ...

2014

Florentina Holzinger

Agon

This woman is a fighter. Florentina Holzinger became famous all over Europe on account of her collaboration with Vincent Riebeek with pieces like “Kein Applaus für Scheiße” and “Spirit”. The young Aus...

2014

Gaëtan Rusquet

Meanwhile,

Humans and construction. Work and architecture. The built structure and its inevitable destruction. “Our ruins” was the working title of this piece by Gaëtan Rusquet before he changed it to “Meanwhile,”, which ad...

[8:tension] 2014

Georg Blaschke / M.A.P. Vienna

The Bosch Experience

Dance in Paradise and in Hell. Two new pieces by renowned Austrian choreographer Georg Blaschke deal with the famous “Last Judgement” triptych (1485-1505) by Hieronymus Bosch. The way three women mov...

2014

Georgia Vardarou

Phenomena

Between conflict and harmony, isolation and togetherness, three young women examine a range of events that arise from the emergence of hidden stories or the outbreak of urgencies. In her new piece, “Phenomena”, Gre...

[8:tension] 2014

Geumhyung Jeong

Oil Pressure Vibrator

Geumhyung Jeong tells us of the pursuit of the subject of her desire in the form of an extremely unique lecture that becomes a meta-performance of her existing work. While explaining her love affair...

[8:tension] 2014

Hannes Wurm

Far Away So Close

“Moments of a rational touch“ is how Hannes Wurm calls his solo with a little help from Sigmund Freud, Cornershop and Andreas Hamza’s accordion. As a child, he used to peer down at his left foot ... a...

2014

Hans Van den Broeck / Cie SOIT

The Lee Ellroy Show

This is not your regular mother-and-son story but a piece about a real trauma. When James Ellroy, who was later to become the famous mystery writer, was ten years old, his mother Geneva was killed in...

2014

Ian Kaler

Contingencies

Five dancers, five directions in space. Setting off and tilting away. Tipping, dropping – all that is possible even when the figures are lying on the floor. An Kaler, the young, highly talented choreographer b...

2014

Ivo Dimchev

Fest

A curator and an artist negotiate the price for performing a piece. Since the artist’s name is Ivo Dimchev who is portrayed by Ivo Dimchev himself, the act of negotiating turns into an extraordinary s...

2014

Ivo Dimchev

ICURE

If healing is a choice then why not make this choice while being in the theatre?” Considering that it’s radical Bulgarian performer Ivo Dimchev of all people who poses such a question it’s to be expec...

2014

Jérôme Bel

Jérôme Bel is now regarded as having initiated a paradigm shift in contemporary dance: the great deconstructionist who reduced the art form to its basic elements, thereby providing a whole new point o...

2014

Jillian Peña

Polly Pocket

New York choreographer Jillian Peña nimbly navigates between capitalism and Marxism. Her latest epic dance drama, “Polly Pocket”, was inspired by the latter as well as by queer theory, psychoanalysis and ...

[8:tension] 2014

Julius Deutschbauer

Schon wieder eine Aufführung, die ich nicht gesehen habe

Julius Deutschbauer watches every performance of ImPulsTanz, but only in his imagination. Loosely based on Jerofejew, he doesn’t actually watch any of the performances. Only by pure will power. Instead, h...

2014

Karol Tymiński

Beep

Oscillating between masculinity and femininity or doing entirely without gender definitions, Polish choreographer Karol Tymiński relies on a body which acts like a receptacle that may be filled with ...

[8:tension] 2014

Ko Murobushi

Enthusiastic Dance on the Grave

Three men beautiful enough to die for are dead. Their skin shines silver-metallic while they keep falling to the ground, accompanied by the magic-like, solemn sounds of “Baïlèro” from the famous Chant...

2014

Ko Murobushi

Faux Pas

Where to go? What happens beyond the steps when feet are falling away from themselves, when the idea of striding becomes absurd? The “potential of impotence”, the “possibility of the impossible”, the bal...

2014

Lloyd Newson / DV8 Physical Theatre

John

In 1983, Lloyd Newson founded the multi award-winning DV8 Physical Theatre and has been its director since then. Widely considered among the most outstanding British dance companies, the audience in...

2014

Magdalena Chowaniec & The Rechnitz Crew

Attan bleibt bei uns

Eight Afghan refugees dance with Magdalena. And what those young men perform on the Western stage is a far cry from folklore. It is about the visibility of the past and the present and about their memories...

2014

Meg Stuart / Damaged Goods

Sketches/Notebook

Breaking with convention, tearing down barriers and crossing boundaries – Meg Stuart cannot and doesn’t want to do it any other way. So her piece for five dancers with a total of 12 people on stage, bea...

2014

Michael O'Connor

Tertiary

Who knows what’s really going on in the perpetual torrent of our perception? This is a subject enthusiastically explored by scientists and increasingly by choreographers, too. Such as Michael O’Connor fro...

[8:tension] 2014

Rebecca Patek

ineter(a)nal f/ear

The trauma of rape is the subject of New York choreographer Rebecca Patek’s performance. In it, she tells a sad story: the protagonist, a young female dancer, works in a bar. She is raped on her way h...

[8:tension] 2014

Rosalind Goldberg

MIT

The Norwegian-German choreographer Rosalind Goldberg presents the reinvention of the human body in her dance solo “MIT”. MIT is a female character developed by Goldberg together with the stunning dan...

[8:tension] 2014

Teresa Silva & Filipe Pereira

What Remains Of What Has Passed

A woman in a colourful suit is standing there, with her eyes goggling and her mouth opening in a silent cry like in Munch’s painting. An apparition. Possibly an illusion. What remains of what has passed? A...

[8:tension] 2014

Zhang Mengqi

Self Portrait and Sex Education for Myself

A woman’s gotta do what a woman’s gotta do. In the case of young Chinese dancer and choreographer Zhang Mengqi this means taking responsibility for herself and risking a process of “self-education”. Her sol...

[8:tension] 2014

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_ 2014 _ performances : 40 RESULTS

Akemi Takeya

Little Stories About S.O.S.

Alain Platel / les ballets C de la B & Münchner Kammerspiele

tauberbach

Albert Quesada

Wagner & Ligeti

Amanda Piña / nadaproductions

WAR

Anne Juren

Pornography: A Trying-Out

Cecilia Bengolea & François Chaignaud

Dub Love

Chris Haring / Liquid Loft

Deep Dish

Chris Haring / Liquid Loft

Talking Head

Cie. Ismael Ivo & Grupo Biblioteca do Corpo

Erendira

Dada Masilo / The Dance Factory

Swan Lake

Dana Michel

Yellow Towel

Daniel Kok

Cheerleader of Europe

David Wampach

TOUR

David Zambrano & Iva Bittová

Why Not!

Dinis Machado

Black Cats Can See In The Dark But Are Not Seen

Elio Gervasi & Roberto Zappalà

La Notte Italiana

Florentina Holzinger

Agon

Gaëtan Rusquet

Meanwhile,

Georg Blaschke / M.A.P. Vienna

The Bosch Experience

Georgia Vardarou

Phenomena

Geumhyung Jeong

Oil Pressure Vibrator

Hannes Wurm

Far Away So Close

Hans Van den Broeck / Cie SOIT

The Lee Ellroy Show

Ian Kaler

Contingencies

Ivo Dimchev

Fest

Ivo Dimchev

ICURE

Jérôme Bel

Jérôme Bel

Jillian Peña

Polly Pocket

Julius Deutschbauer

Schon wieder eine Aufführung, die ich nicht gesehen habe

Karol Tymiński

Beep

Ko Murobushi

Enthusiastic Dance on the Grave

Ko Murobushi

Faux Pas

Lloyd Newson / DV8 Physical Theatre

John

Magdalena Chowaniec & The Rechnitz Crew

Attan bleibt bei uns

Meg Stuart / Damaged Goods

Sketches/Notebook

Michael O'Connor

Tertiary

Rebecca Patek

ineter(a)nal f/ear

Rosalind Goldberg

MIT

Teresa Silva & Filipe Pereira