DanceAbility Teacher Certification

ImPulsTanz and Alito Alessi, founder and managing director of DanceAbility, are offering a four-week DanceAbility teacher training as part of ImPulsTanz 2020.

Further Education Programmes 2020

The further education programme for artists, dancers and choreographers ATLAS – create your dance trails (application deadline 31^st March 2020) with Guy Cools as ATLAS-Coach will take place once more from 8^th July to 12^th August 2020 as part of ImPulsTanz. Applications are open as of now!

toxic dreams awarded with Nestroy Prize

A big round of applause to toxic dreams for receiving the Nestroy Prize in the category best off-production for The Bruno Kreisky Lookalike. Congratulations from the bottom of our hearts! At ImPulsTanz 2019, they presented their equally great piece The Deadpan Dynamites – The Art of the Gag with WTKB.

Exhibition opening: Richard Gerstl at Leopold Museum

INSPIRATION – LEGACY
27^th September 2019 to 20^th January 2020

25 years after the last monographic presentation of his oeuvre in Austria, the Leopold Museum is dedicating a comprehensive exhibition to the artist based around the eminent works from the museum’s own collection.

Opening: 26^th September 2019, 18:30 

Awards for Teresa Vittucci and Lenio Kaklea

We are very happy to announce that two artists of ImPulsTanz 2019 were now honored for their great work. Teresa Vittucci, artist of the [8: tension] - Young Choreographers' Series, received the Swiss Dance Award 2019 in the category Current Dance Works for her piece HATE ME, TENDER. Performer and choreographer Lenio Kaklea, who presented her work Practical Encyclopaedia, Chosen Portraits, won the Hermès Prize for the Milan Triennial. Congratulations from the bottom of our hearts!

Publication: “Dance & visual impairment"

Dance & visual impairment  – For an accessibility of choreographic practices, produced by Centre national de la danse and Cemaforre-European Centre for Cultural Accessibility in the frame of the THE HUMANE BODY EU project, raises questions of how our senses are used in dance teaching practice. In considering how we might develop a more inclusive teaching methodology for blind and partially sighted learners it also exposes other questions: how might traditional ocular-centric teaching models be denying the potential for everyone of a more multi-sensory approach to learning dance? What possibilities might there be for a pedagogy that embraces touch and hearing as equals with vision? 

Award for Dana Michel

CONGRATULATIONS to choreografer and live-artist Dana Michel! She was recently awarded with the ANTI - Contemporary Art Festival Prize for Live Art. We are thrilled to have been able to show her piece CUTLASS SPRING at ImPulsTanz 2019. If you haven't seen it yet – check out her touring schedule here: bit.ly/2QyCJ8g

Bessie Award Nomination for Juliana F. May

We are happy to announce that one of our artists of 2019 – Juliana F. May – is nominated for the Bessie Award in the categorie Outstanding Production with her piece Folk Incest.  The performers Leslie Cuyjet and Molly Poerstel also both received Outstanding Performer nominations for Sustained Achievement. Congratulations! We are very glad to have had the chance to present this great work at ImPulsTanz 2019.

Obituary for Johann Kresnik

The dance theatre has lost one of its pioneers and ImPulsTanz a good friend. Shocked and in deep mourning we have to announce that Johann Kresnik passed away on Saturday, 27^th July 2019 in his 80^th year of life.