Akemi Takeya

Little Stories About S.O.S.: Signs of Solidarity / Group Version

It is an emergency signal that is universally understood: S.O.S. is used as a distress signal and a call for rescue. In her astonishing work, the Vienna based Japanese choreographer Akemi Takeya has...

Akemi Takeya

Lemonism x Actionism

Akemi Takeya sets up a battle between “Actionism” and “Lemonism”; adapts, confronts and re-enacts the strategies of Actionism. Lemonism focuses on the body as material of “the I” including 71 items in...

Alix Eynaudi

Monique

In 2012, Alix Eynaudi und Mark Lorimer made a stir with their work Monique, turning Bondage practices into choreographic instructions: SM meets action art meets contact improvisation meets les ballets...

Amanda Piña / nadaproductions

Four remarks on the history of dance Endangered Human Movements Vol.1

Four remarks on the history of dance Endangered Human Movements Vol.1 The performance Four remarks on the history of dance is the first volume of Endangered Human Movements, focusing on human movement...

Ana Rita Teodoro

SHADE (Fantôme Méchant)

“The shadow of a country does not leave her body” Currently living in France and Japan, choreographer and performer Ana Rita Teodoro creates a series of tableaux vivants, which serve to bring Portuguese wom...

Ana Rita Teodoro

Gut's Dream (Rêve d'Intestin)

Austrian Premiere Rêve d’Intestin is part of a collection of dance pieces dedicated to the body orifices called Délirer l’Anatomie. Secrets are unveiled which are usually hidden by our physical const...

Ana Rita Teodoro

Ana

A research into Anna Brus by Ana Rita – partner in mind. World premiere International and Vienna based dance and performance artists take a fresh glance on the concept and the ideas of actionism a...

Anna Jermolaewa & Oleg Soulimenko

MEET THE SHAMAN Installation

Oleg Soulimenko's installation MEET THE SHAMAN leads into the world of shamans in Buryatia, the Siberian Province north of Mongolia. With video works by Anna Jermolaewa and Oleg Soulimenko, complemented...

Anne Juren

THE POINT

Anne Juren’s recent work Pornography examined the relationship between the pornographic gaze and the mechanisms of representation in theatre. In THE POINT she decentralizes this gaze to generate a c...

Anne Juren

Magical: The Kitchen

Magical, a highly successful collaboration between Anne Juren and Annie Dorsen, uses the canon of feminist performance art and the rituals of a magic show to play with illusion, trickery and transformation....

Antony Rizzi

The Artist Is Here

„She is present but I am here“. Not only since him acting her in Robert Wilsons piece The Life and Death of Marina Abramović, both are somehow linked by a mutual interest. The exceptional Antony Rizz...

Barbara Kraus

Close my eyes and see

Viennese performance artist Barbara Kraus opens up a field of forces in the dark glimmer of a world inbetween. There she gives her unrestricted anarchistic attention to things as well as humans. In the...

Choy Ka Fai

SoftMachine: Exhibition

Opening: 26 July, 18:00 What is Asia? Choy Ka Fai from Singapore is fed up with generalisations and stereotypes: “After all, there are over 48 countries in Asia.” The artist, creator of performances and...

Christine Gaigg / 2nd nature

Maybe the way you made love twenty years ago is the answer?

Do the hormones need to be tamed, and is the chemistry of desire to be diluted down to harmlessness? On the one hand, there’s porn as a media hype, on the other there are meticulous regimentations w...

Christine Gaigg / 2nd nature & netzzeit / Klaus Schedl

untitled (look, look, come closer)

A performance by Christine Gaigg to compositions by Klaus Schedl In cooperation with netzzeit – Festival for New Music Theatre “We have been carrying war in our pockets for some time now”, says Chris...

Christine Gaigg & Group

Charged Documents

A group intervention, developed on site with and by the members of the same-titled research project. "Everything that wasn't allowed has been done. What is the rebellious moment of today?" The research...

Claudia Bosse

a second step to IDEAL PARADISE

Highly topical, explosive subjects are set in relation to each other in this piece: ideology, terrorism and extremism; territory and appropriation; cultural projections, images of the body, erotic projections...

Claudia Bosse / Alexandra Sommerfeld / theatercombinat

ZOCK

an anarchist manifest of the actionists from the late 1960ies is confronted with the presence of 2015. a speech act examines commitments, ideologies and political fantasies and their potential for conflicts...

Claudia Bosse / theatercombinat

a third step to IDEAL PARADISE

Completely new perspectives on the crises of our time are revealed in this, the third step towards an ideal paradise: on three days the installation a second step to IDEAL PARADISE becomes the score...

contact Gonzo

untitled movements with a drummer coming a little later

The title is not a joke: the drummer actually appears later when things really get cooking. First, young men prowl around each other like panthers, they bump each other as quick as a flash, then withdraw,...

Doris Uhlich

Universal Dancer Club Version

Techno – that much was clear from the beginning. And now here’s the club. After the first performance of Universal Dancer last autumn, Doris Uhlich now presents the club version of this solo. There she...

Elina Pirinen

Personal Symphonic Moment

“Is it a discount disco or a pathos-laden fireworks display in homage to Shostakovich?”, the Finnish Music Quarterly asked in its enthusiastic review of Elina Pirinen’s award-winning trio. The Finni...

Elisabeth B. Tambwe

Symposium

Elisabeth Tambwe’s installations and performances touch the sore spots of a post-colonial world, the disastrous condition of which she criticises with sharp irony. In Symposion, which combines movement, t...

Elisabeth B. Tambwe

FIT IN

The overbred European chicken as an allegory for the monstrosity but also the descent of the West. A performative showdown by Elisabeth B. Tambwe. World premiere International and Vienna based dance...

Florentina Holzinger & Vincent Riebeek

Schönheitsabend

So far, Florentina Holzinger’s and Vincent Riebeek’s pieces have been colourful, sexy and well-padded with pop culture. Once the motto was No applause for shit, then there was Spirit followed by Wel...

Hinterreithner & Hauser

Mezzanin

What happens when people and objects engage in artistic, performative complicity? To get to the bottom of this question, Lisa Hinterreithner and Jack Hauser explore parts of the Odeon theatre that usually...

Ian Kaler

o.T. | (gateways to movement)

In a room splendidly designed by Stephanie Rauch, Ian Kaler examines connections, similarities and thresholds as approaches to movement and to being moved in the second part of his series o.T. together...

ImPulsTanz & Odeon

Hommage an Ko Murobushi

With artistic contributions by: Ivo Dimchev Clara Furey Dimos Goudaroulis Ismael Ivo Koffi Kôkô & Achille Acakpo Erwin Piplits Akemi Takeya Laurent Ziegler Please get your free ticket i...

Ivo Dimchev

Facebook Theatre

Facebook Theater is an interactive theatrical experiment within the setting of the exhibition My Body is the Event – Viennese Actionsim and International Performance in which the actors articulate a...

Jennifer Lacey

What’s your problem and what action to take or: Your body is the event in a long long string of events that is difficult to grasp and what to do about it.

You must have a problem and be willing to discuss it in public. This show is a one-on-one session in public that uses the current exhibition as an an interpretive tool to examine a personal or creative...

João dos Santos Martins

continued project

Inspired by Yvonne Rainer’s legendary Continuous Project – Altered Daily, João Martins uses choreography as a method to examine, activate and transform the relationships between people in this group piec...

Keith Hennessy

ActionJism

What is the difference between intervening on nazi-bourgeois obedience in Vienna in the 1960s when nazi guilt was fresh AND intervening on fascist-bourgeois obedience in Vienna in 2015, when colonial-capitalist...

Konservatorium Wien Privatuniversität

Brown, King & Uhlich

The dancers of tomorrow show how they can get things moving even today. They are still students at Konservatorium Wien University, but their performances are absolutely professional. Such as, for example,...

Ligia Lewis

Sorrow Swag

Voices of disobedience and refusal (such as from Jean Anouilh’s Antigone and Beckett’s Not I) inhabit the hybrid, restless body of a young man performed by L.A. based performance artist Brian Getnick. Lig...

Live True Dance Free

A club night honouring the boundless spirit of Marjory Smarth

A club night honouring the boundless spirit of Marjory Smarth (1969 - 2015) hosted by Archie Burnett (New York) Jef Freedom (New York) Storm (Berlin) appearances by Brahms “Bravo” LaFortune (Ne...

Maarten Seghers & The Horrible Facts

WHAT DO YOU MEAN WHAT DO YOU MEAN AND OTHER PLEASANTRIES

WHAT DO YOU MEAN ... is a concert, a sculptural dance, an everlasting pop song and a stand-up comedy show. Assisted by the Horrible Facts, his “supporting band” made up of six oversized wooden sound box...

Magdalena Chowaniec & Mani Obeya

Songs of the Water / Tales of the Sea

It was a long and perilous journey. They have braved a passage which thousands so far, who were also on the run and in search of safety, had to pay for with their life. Initiated by the choreographic...

Mårten Spångberg

The Planet, first location

The truly passionate archaeologist does not worship objects extracted from earth but worships the earth itself. Not the world, not earth but the planet - in it self, in its most anonymous. The Planet...

Máté Mészáros

Hinoki

Mortality, destruction, reconstruction – this existential trinity is the focus of the latest piece by choreographer, dancer and long-standing member of Ultima Vez, Máté Mészáros. Together with five ...

Miguel Gutierrez

FUCKMEGUNTERBRUSBRUSGUNTERMEFUCK

In this never before rehearsed performance, Miguel Gutierrez explores his longstanding crush on Gunter Brus, who seemed the queerest of the Actionists, and who, more importantly, is a Libra. Part love...

Oleg Soulimenko

MEET THE SHAMAN

A quick-change artist and his spiritual guest delve into the mysteries of the beetroot and its traces on white paper. Accompanied by musician dieb13, the video artist Anna Jermolaewa and performer Robert...

Padmini Chettur

Wall Dancing

Beauty and radicalness go well together. Indian choreographer Padmini Chettur, who has worked with the famous Indian dance artist Chandralekha for ten years, demonstrates this once again with a performance...

Philipp Gehmacher

My shapes, your words, their grey

„What is the grey life?“ is one of the questions addressed by Philipp Gehmacher in his extraordinary work my shapes, your words, their grey, which oscillates between installation, sculpture, performance, ges...

Rani Nair

Future Memory

Kurt Jooss, one of the most eminent choreographers of German expressionist dance, had a very special encounter in Sweden. One result of his meeting with Lilavati Häger, a dancer who had emigrated to ...

Rianto

SoftMachine (Indonesia) by Choy Ka Fai

SoftMachine (Indonesia) by Choy Ka Fai Lengger is a traditional erotic dance from Banyumas on Java, Indonesia. This is also the home of passionate dancer Rianto, who has mastered not only the aesthetically...

Rita Vilhena

Emergency Plan

What techniques, what content and what dedication does it take in order for dance or theatre actions to turn into rituals? After collaborations with Meg Stuart among others, this is what Rita Vilhena...

Saskia Hölbling / DANS.KIAS

Assemblage humain

Subject and object are looking at each other. A woman and a life-size doll meet in two worlds. One duet is superimposed over another. What happens as a result is called “assemblage humain” by choreographer Sas...

Serapions Ensemble

Anagó

“Amazement is the first step towards insight”, according to Erwin Piplits. The latest work of his Serapions Ensemble puts this maxim into effect by means of poetic images and fantastic atmospheres. The...

Sergiu Matis

Explicit Content

The machinery of various dance techniques „contaminated“ him, says Sergiu Matis after working for instance with Nürnberg Ballett or Sasha Waltz Company. In his visionary piece he and the equally bril...

Simon Mayer

SunBengSitting

Simon Mayer’s artistic roots range from rural folk culture to the Wiener Staatsballett through to Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker’s educational institution P.A.R.T.S. in Brussels. SunBengSitting (“sun bench...

SUPERAMAS

History of Violence

This is going to be a performance in tribute to the past and the battles to come for a better world. The Superamas collective tackle the connections between history and violence, whose relics are stored...

SUPERAMAS

SCORE

The installation SCORE originates from the performance History of Violence, which takes place at Weltmuseum Wien as well. Superamas use objects from the collection Africa southern of the Sahara, South...

Surjit Nongmeikapam

SoftMachine (India) by Choy Ka Fai

SoftMachine (India) by Choy Ka Fai What are the factors that make a dance piece a success in Europe? Surjit Nongmeikapam, a highly talented dancer from Manipur, India, is looking for an appropriate answer...

Tanz Company Gervasi

the white horn

Six dancers oscillate between closeness and distance, between losing and finding themselves. In the blend of their varied encounters and individual isolations this heterogeneous group of charismatic...

Tanztheater Wien

Back to the Future

Who remembers Mid Atlantic? Künstlerhaustheater Wien, 15 November 1982: that’s when the first performance of this piece took place, which introduced Liz King’s Tanztheater Wien to the public, thus hera...

Volmir Cordeiro

Inês

She is 57 years old, has two kids and lives in a favela: Inês, the heroine of Volmir Cordeiro’s new solo. There is nothing she wants more than to become a reality TV star. But the price to pay for th...

Yuya Tsukahara

SoftMachine (Japan) by Choy Ka Fai

SoftMachine (Japan) by Choy Ka Fai How can conflicting emotions like love and pain or apparent opposites like dance and violence be brought together? The answer is simple: with contact Gonzo, a unique...

ZAK RAY

mumok troll

The execution of the subversive drift "Trolling occurs if the differences of world view, opinion, identity, culture of two users are so profound that no reasonable change of arguments seems possible." International...

ZAK RAY

M.A.D. The Personality Show

We might not be able to invite Andrew Scott, BBC Sherlock’s amazing Moriarty; but his name inspires the show: ars moriendi and ars vivendi as intertwined double arts of existence. A celebration of h...