2018
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PERFORMANCES
Akemi Takeya
Tapped/Untapped
This is to be seen and heard: sparkling will be guaranteed when performance artist and musician Akemi Takeya once again will draw on her passion for both precisely composed as well as wildly imaginative...SOLD OUT
2018
Alex Baczynski-Jenkins
Us Swerve
Three hours, three performers, poetry including lines from Eileen Myles or Langston Hughes: Us Swerve, 2014, is a score for performers on rollerblades. They orbit one another whilst reciting, remixing...[8:tension] 2018
Andrea Maurer
Found Poems at the Würstelstand besides the Theatre
Every once and again, the “Würstelstand” besides the theatre becomes center stage. Therefore, Andrea Maurer presents small poetical acts by offering whimsical short readings, which move between Dada...SOLD OUT
2018
Andreas Spechtl & Thomas Köck
ghostdance
Hauntology says Mark Fisher does not simply mean a “nostalgia for lost futures”. Not a longing for the past, but a search for the futures that we may not even remember. Perhaps ghostdance is just tha...SOLD OUT
2018
Anne Juren
Private Anatomy Lesson
The Tongue, desire for language
The Tongue, desire for language
Over the past few years, Anne Juren has been unfolding a Fantasmical Anatomy as real as a piece of bone. In Anatomie at ImPulsTanz 2017, she expanded the imagination...SOLD OUT
2018
Anne Juren
Private Anatomy Lesson
The Body, desire for symmetry
The Body, desire for symmetry
Over the past few years, Anne Juren has been unfolding a Fantasmical Anatomy as real as a piece of bone. In Anatomie at ImPulsTanz 2017, she expanded the imagination of...SOLD OUT
2018
Anne Juren
Private Anatomy Lesson
The Sexual Organs, desire for obscenity
The Sexual Organs, desire for obscenity
Over the past few years, Anne Juren has been unfolding a Fantasmical Anatomy as real as a piece of bone. In Anatomie at ImPulsTanz 2017, she expanded the imagination...SOLD OUT
2018
Anne Juren
Private Anatomy Lesson
The Mouth, cannibal desire
The Mouth, cannibal desire
Over the past few years, Anne Juren has been unfolding a Fantasmical Anatomy as real as a piece of bone. In Anatomie at ImPulsTanz 2017, she expanded the imagination of the...SOLD OUT
2018
Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker & Jean-Guihen Queyras / Rosas
Mitten wir im Leben sind/Bach6Cellosuiten
Belgian star choreographer Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker has developed a particularly intensive connection with Johann Sebastian Bach’s highly elaborate music over several of her works. Now she presents h...SOLD OUT
2018
Cecilia Bengolea & Florentina Holzinger
Insect Train
Hell is on earth and nowhere else. This new creation is a collaborative experimentation on the interface of nature and artifice of the human body. This piece is the result of several short meetings...SOLD OUT
2018
Choy Ka Fai
UnBearable Darkness
For him, Japanese butoh dance is “a rebellion against Western dance culture and a quest for a new choreographic language”. Choy Ka Fai is well-known in Vienna since his Soft Machine project in Weltmuseum at ...SOLD OUT
2018
Choy Ka Fai
Dance Clinic
Everything will be fine, now that Doctor Choy is here. Choreographers and performers can breathe a sigh of relief, for they have been invited to visit Choy Ka Fai’s dance clinic. Florentina Holzinger, D... 2018
Christine Gaigg
Meet
“What I touched upon in Maybe the way you made love twenty years ago is the answer? I lead on now in Meet: more condensed, open and sensually experienceable. I give erotic encounters, which disappear m...SOLD OUT
2018
Cie. Marie Chouinard
RADICAL VITALITY, SOLOS AND DUETS – Act 1 + 2
A royal bell rings for Orpheus and Eurydice, there was a special Sunday morning in May of 1955, and the heart chakra quivers. For all forty years of working as an artist, outstanding Canadian choreographer...SOLD OUT
2018
Cie. Willi Dorner
many (Arbeitstitel)
What remains of the body in the torrents of images in our digitalised world? Does everyone have to expose themselves on the Net to prove that they exist? Such topical questions dance through the new...SOLD OUT
2018
Clara Furey
When Even The
When Even The, Leonard Cohen’s intriguing poem of unfinished sentences, inspired Canadian artist Clara Furey to create a magically meditative solo performance which explores the field of energy between h...SOLD OUT
2018
Dave St. Pierre
Néant Void
Attention: the performance of 16 July unfortunately needed to be cancelled due to illness!(further details below) Néant Void The amusing figure with a beard and blonde wig in a clothes bag among ...SOLD OUT
2018
Dorothée Munyaneza
Unwanted
Rwandan performance artist Dorothée Munyaneza traveled to her homeland to create this testimony of female strength. She is drawing from stories told to her by women who were victims of rape as a weapon ... 2018
Eszter Salamon
MONUMENT 0.3: The Valeska Gert Museum
The Valeska Gert Museum is an imaginary museum that operates through a collection of performative acts related to the life and work of the German avant-garde artist Valeska Gert. In her extraordinary...SOLD OUT
2018
Florentina Holzinger
Apollon
When is a man just a rack – and how frequently one that acts as if it were a bull? And what does it look like when a god is taken apart good and proper? Florentina Holzinger has some answers to these q...SOLD OUT
2018
François Chaignaud & Nino Laisné
Romances inciertos, un autre Orlando
Who is this fabulous figure, this shapeshifting visitor from a long-gone yet never entirely forgotten world? Maybe it’s the spirit of Virginia Woolf’s Orlando, who turned into a woman overnight, tha...SOLD OUT
2018
Gaigg / Lang / Ritsch / Zott
V-Trike
Who is in control here, who has the power? The solo dancer on her sound-generating metal plate or the choreographer who “interferes” live alongside her? A camera, a projection screen and sophisticated sou...SOLD OUT
2018
ImPulsTanz Workshops
expressions'18
After four weeks of intensive dancing students present excerpts of their achievements. Free admission!FULLY BOOKED
2018
Ivo Dimchev
Avoiding deLIFEath
Theatre version After his six days of Performance-cum-Exhibition Marathon in 2017 at mumok Hofstallung, Ivo Dimchev returns to explore in what he calls his “Workaholic-Meditation” seven of his favourite cre... 2018
Ivo Dimchev
Ivo Dimchev, A Selfie Concert
After Ivo Dimchev’s staggering Facebook Theatre 2015 in mumok and his music album release Sculptures on the stage of Vienna’s Volkstheater at ImPulsTanz 2017, artist, performer, singer and musician. Ivo...SOLD OUT
2018
Ivo Dimchev
Voilá – the most important thing in the universe
“What am I focused on and what do I want my audience to be focused on? Am I aware of the aesthetic/monetary value of the elements I work with? Am I able to control this value? Do I have priorities? A...SOLD OUT
2018
Jaha Koo
Cuckoo
Loneliness is when the rice cooker becomes the only “person” to talk to in life. In South Korea, this state of being is called golibmuwon – helpless isolation. After an economic crisis 20 years ago, ...SOLD OUT
[8:tension] 2018
Jamila Johnson-Small
i ride in colour and soft focus, no longer anywhere
“Body as oracle, a trance, a rhythmic interface, an atmosphere, a landscape with the texture of my current mental state. A dance informed by everything and everyone I have ever encountered, seen, heard, f...SOLD OUT
[8:tension] 2018
Jan Fabre / Troubleyn
The generosity of Dorcas
A man with a golden lower lip is dancing in a stage set of colourful threads. He seems intent on amazing his audience like a fairground magician. Large sewing needles are dangling from the threads, and...SOLD OUT
2018
Jule Flierl
Störlaut
Grotesque dancer Valeska Gert was quite the thing in Berlin during the Roaring Twenties. The artist, who referred to herself as the “first vocal dancer in the world”, presented her sound-dance pieces on ...SOLD OUT
2018
Karin Pauer
five hundred thousand years of movement
A young woman dances the cosmic evolution. She plunges into the history of everything and stages a gigantic project with minimal means. In the face of the enormous periods of time she has to cover, Viennese...SOLD OUT
[8:tension] 2018
Liquid Loft / Chris Haring
Foreign Tongues Babylon (Slang)
Foreign Tongues Babylon (Slang) The Babylonians were properly vainglorious when they built their sky-scraping tower in an attempt to get closer to God. They envisioned a structural as well as a logistical...SOLD OUT
2018
Louise Lecavalier / Fou Glorieux
Battleground
The virtuoso dance tornado of the Canadian company La La La Human Steps, with her characteristic white-blonde mane of hair, was one of the best-known dancers in the world. Most notably after performing...SOLD OUT
2018
Mark Tompkins / La Cie. I.D.A.
Stayin Alive
Acknowledging the fact that one has grown old often makes one pensive, and sometimes melancholic. The loss of his mother still fresh in his mind, US American-French singer, dancer and choreographer Mark...SOLD OUT
2018
Mathias Ringgenberg aka PRICE
Where Do You Wanna Go Today
All the ingredients for great entertainment are there: a little drama, a dash of irony, plenty of songs, some art. But there is something else to this performance, and the solo figure, PRICE, a fictional...SOLD OUT
[8:tension] 2018
Meg Stuart / Damaged Goods
Solos and duets
Originally from the US, Meg Stuart (Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement, Biennale Danza Venice 2018) is based in Brussels and Berlin. She is an artist who has beamed dance to a new level since the 1990s....SOLD OUT
2018
Meg Stuart / Damaged Goods & EIRA
BLESSED
This man is truly happy. He has all that the heart desires: a little house, a palm tree, a wonderful swan and nothing but spare time. Portuguese dancer Francisco Camacho portrays the man BLESSED by Fortuna...SOLD OUT
2018
Meg Stuart & Mark Tompkins
Serious Fun
This performance provides unique insights into the lab of Meg Stuart and Mark Tompkins, where they collect material for their book on Real Time Composition – as a tool, technique, research, philosophical a...SOLD OUT
2018
Michikazu Matsune
All Together
All Together tells stories of people we encountered in our life, people we lost contact with and people who cannot be here. It might be a brother, childhood friend, teacher, first-love or even star-artists.... 2018
Nick Power
Between Tiny Cities រវាងទីក្រុងតូច
Two b*boys celebrate hip-hop and its rituals. Erak Mith is from Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Aaron Lim was born and raised in Darwin, Australia. Their choreographer, Nick Power, is a b*boy himself and knows...SOLD OUT
2018
Ofelia Jarl Ortega
B.B. (Theaterversion)
(Theatre version) B.B. as in b and not a, as in b-side, as in babe, baby, bb, as in Brigitte Bardot, as in two characters and as something that those who know know. A fan fiction to our fans – one i...[8:tension] 2018
Ofelia Jarl Ortega
B.B. (Museumsversion)
Museum version B.B. as in b and not a, as in b-side, as in babe, baby, bb, as in Brigitte Bardot, as in two characters and as something that those who know know. A fan fiction to our fans – one in t...SOLD OUT
[8:tension] 2018
Pierre Rigal / Cie. dernière minute
STANDARDS
Liberty, equality, fraternity! A group of lively hip-hoppers, covered in colourful face paint, dance exuberantly on the French tricolour. They turn the national flag into a playing field, dissolving...SOLD OUT
2018
Salva Sanchis
Radical Light
An hour full of explosive energy and virtuoso choreography to minimal techno running at 120 beats per minute throws a “radical light” on dance today. The fi ve dancers, including the choreographer, do ...SOLD OUT
2018
Shamel Pitts
BLACK VELVET – Architectures and Archetypes
Two figures emerge from the darkness like sculptures come to life: futuristic ideal types with shaved heads and naked to the waist. Subtle lighting, contrasted by pounding music, shapes muscles and contours....SOLD OUT
[8:tension] 2018
Silke Huysmans & Hannes Dereere
Mining Stories
Brazil, State of Minas Gerais, 5 November 2015. Two dams of a settling pond at a mine collapsed, villages were laid to waste. The Rio Doce turned into a toxic cesspit stretching over 600 kilometres,...[8:tension] 2018
Simon Mayer
Oh Magic
What is it about machines that enchants humans and why do robots spark our imagination? To throw light on this allure Austrian choreographer Simon Mayer sets up a futuristic band of metal and cables,...SOLD OUT
2018
Trajal Harrell
Caen Amour
This is much more than a re-staged hoochie coochie show. Nevertheless, New York choreographer Trajal Harrell takes the erotic-exotic entertainment format, which caused many a scandal in the Victorian...SOLD OUT
2018
Trajal Harrell
In the Mood for Frankie
His Twenty Looks or Paris is Burning at The Judson Church series put Trajal Harrell on the international map. Now he has been gripped by a fascination with Japanese butoh. He indulges in his passion...SOLD OUT
2018
Valerie Oberleithner & Magdalena Chowaniec
iChoreography – Conversations
In the theatre the body is being prepared for what is to be done outside in the public space. That is the premise under which a group of people from different generations walks to Heldenplatz to examine...FULLY BOOKED
2018
Xavier Le Roy
Le sacre du printemps (2018)
A man in a red polo shirt and washed-out jeans entered the empty stage and began conducting. Without an orchestra, as the music came from speakers under the audience stands. In a captivating solo choreography...SOLD OUT
2018
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