There are no programme booklets for this performance. Jérôme Bel insists on this because the conceptualist of contemporary dance works according to stringent ecological principles. This is why, at the b...

In 2015, she invented Lemonism – a performative toolbox with which she created works such as Lemonism x Japonism & Actionism to throw new light on some of the most important art ‘-isms’ of the 20th centur...

Mowgli is a girl in this version of The Jungle Book, and British star choreographer Akram Khan has made many more changes to the plot of Rudyard Kipling’s book from 1894 in his sensitive reinterpretation. H...

Encounters is a series of dance pieces per­formed in spaces and at locations related to work. Whether daily, for a whole year, in a retail outlet in Vienna or in an aban­doned factory building during the C...

Ana Pi’s The Divine Cypher is research, poetry and politics at the same time – an examination of ancient Haitian sacred dances and of the present into which these gestures continue to reach. The Brazi...

Sensorial Transference is a choreographic ‘session’ inviting the audience to take part in the bodily experience of a patient. French­ born Viennese choreographer, dancer and researcher Anne Juren is wel...

Very few artists investigate the relationship between dance and music, sound, space and movement structures so thoroughly and with such outstanding success as Belgian superstar Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker....

We happily invite you to the ImPulsTanz – Young Choreographers' Award, which was established in 2018 and will again be awarded to the artists of the [8:tension] Young Choreographers’ Series in 2022. The p...

NATUR und die Versuche, ihr mit Sprache beizukommen (“NATURE and the attempts of its linguistic comprehension”) – in her essay, the award­-winning author Barbara Frischmuth not only pleads for a great...

Authenticity and a direct connection with life are significant factors in the performances of one of Canada’s most notable contem­porary choreographers, Benoît Lachambre. And what could be more genuine tha...

Boglárka Börcsök first made an appearance at ImPulsTanz back in 2018 with Eszter Salamon when performing in The Valeska Gert Museum at mumok. Figuring Age again displays her aptitude for transformation: in col...

The last couple of years have brought along manifold reminders of just how profound humanity’s dependance on nature and its state of health really is; however, the fact that the ways we live on and with t...

In the face of social upheavals resulting from global warming or the pandemic questions and longings for a different way of dealing with the world increase. The cinematic pieces of the presented artists...

Hell is generously open to all, and some may wonder whether they have already arrived there in their lifetime or whether there is something even bigger, hotter or colder than this world. The generally...

Danses macabres are being played on this performative turntable, such as can be found on some old frescoes. “These grotesque dances conjure up comic characters making fun of death, as well as rather t...

In 2018, the Canadian musician, dancer and choreographer presented her fascinating solo When Even The, inspired by Leonard Cohen’s poem of the same name, at ImPulsTanz in mumok. An ‘architecture of plea...

The future and the past are of the same fabric. We carry what was – and there­fore what will be – in us, it has inscribed itself into our organs and must therefore be legible, must make possible the unth...

The original is considered the greatest ballet classic of the early 20th century: Le sacre du printemps. Names associated with this masterpiece include Sergei Diaghilev, Vaslav Nijinsky and Igor Stravinsky....

Davi Pontes and Wallace Ferreira are stand­ing naked in front of the audience and propose an alternative to the structural and political violence that seems to have be­come a persistent presence in th...

What is old? There is a new way of looking at the body, the old body, the aged body. Covid has brought it into the foreground, shows like Germany’s Next Topmodel into the spotlight. In her musical­-discursive for­...

After a danceWEB scholarship in 2019 Djibril Sall returns to ImPulsTanz with evening.haiku, a performance named after Sonia Sanchez’s collection Morning Haiku, inviting the audience to take time out for...

He is an established poetic great on the Viennese dance scene, and he has always remained true to his own artistic stand­ards, regardless of the fluctuating trends in contemporary choreography. Born in ...

This is the way to play and dance a commu­nity: six dancers, the Viennese music ensemble Studio Dan and the audience combine to form a virtuoso association of sound and movement – in the open air to t...

Oh, the beauty of romantic ballet! For instance La Sylphide, with its floating pointe dancers and the evil witch Madge. ‘Floating’ and ‘witch’ are keywords for Florentina Holzinger: very special sylphs ...

The work of artist and choreographer Geumhyung Jeong explores the relationship between the body and the objects surrounding it. In her performance Rehab Training, Jeong has developed a customized rehab...

Geumhyung Jeong's Spa & Beauty investigates the relationship of body-objects, taking inspiration from the industry of beauty and body care products. Brushes, sponges, soaps and all the objects that touch ...

7 ways are 7 interactions of the artist with objects – 7 peculiar duets. Common things, once they meet with the artist’s body, come to life, become a partner in the game of pulling and pushing, and caus...

A Classic! First shown at ImPulsTanz’ [8:tension] Series in 2014, this piece has nothing lost of its charm and intelligence. Geumhyung Jeong tells us of the pursuit of the subject of her desire in the fo...

Geumhyung Jeong creates choreographic assemblages with self­made robotic sculp­ tures. In a series of intimate encounters and sensual interaction with her homemade partners, she uses her body to communicate w...

Water burbles, patterns and images flit through this somnambulistic installation, in which a soloist dances – a shadow diva in a shiny sequin dress. Grace Ellen Barkey, who was born in Surabaya, Indonesia, an...

Who has succeeded in reformulating flamenco, adding elements of cross-dressing, bullfighting and the most diverse rituals from popular culture through to football to the mix, thereby carrying it over into...

“Artists must do all they can to make sure that their ‘poetics’ provide a powerful response to the all-devouring political suffocation we now find ourselves in”, Jan Lauwers writes about this piece, which i...

Lenio Kaklea was inspired to create this ‘duet with a pianist’ because music revolutionary John Cage composed pieces for the two African-American choreographers Syvilla Fort (1917–1975) and Pearl Primu...

The five men in this piece aren’t exactly shy. Carried by Serge Gainsbourg’s voice, they drift into a kind of trance and get themselves naked. Black, white, brown skin shines in the spotlight. Hands car...

On his mysterious island, Dr. Moreau tells a visitor the secret of his macabre experiments: “These creatures you have seen are animals carven and wrought into new shapes. To that, to the study of the p...

Together with three soloists of the renowned Ensemble Contrechamps from Geneva and dancer Maya Masse, Swiss choreographer Maud Blandel tackles a new instrumen­talisation and corporeal interpretation of ...

At first, the two-time Nestroy Prize winner Michael Turinsky wonders if he should write a love letter to communism ‘as a genuine movement’. Or is it a better idea to tweet about socialism and its rela...

Can one’s own body – removed from the self, lost in the digital labyrinth – be found in a dream and be reassembled? Based on notes made each day at four o’clock in the morning by the choreographer and per...

The urgency of the climate crisis not only demands political action but a concerted rethinking of every facet of society. What’s Done / Undone brings together artists and experts for three panel discussions: a...

For two years, in 2020 and 2021, chore­ographers and dancers were invited by the Creative Europe project Life Long Burning to share resources, working processes and artistic practices with the network’s part...

When it comes to recognising the apparent nature of a good many opposites so as to stimulate more complex thinking, these are great times to live in. And this piece, which has been completely reworked...

This is one of dancer, performer, choreogra­pher and visual artist Philipp Gehmacher’s most intimate pieces. Philipp Gehmacher’s solo is divided into two parts and yet is a whole that firmly encloses itsel...

Have you ever been held after drinking too much?  You are puking, you’re completely emptied out, but can’t stop gagging …. Have you ever been held in that moment? Someone, a group of friends, holding your h...

How do these four dancers bring a club setting to the stage of a theatre? In a truly mistressfully fashion and with a great deal of sensitivity for their cause! Which, incidentally, is house dance: the...

Manhattan, 1994. South African dancer Robyn Orlin watches homeless people seeking shelter in refrigerator packaging on the Lower East Side. She struggles to find a working space and begins to develop ...

“Digging beneath the surface“ could be the Austrian choreographer’s motto, who was awarded the prestigious H13 Lower Austria Prize for Performance in 2021. Inspired by Steve McQueen’s Western Deep, Sar...

What can Theocritus’ and Virgil’s hymns of praise to Earth tell us about the ruins that are mere shadows of their original splendour? Is it even possible that they refer to the same world? In Hopeless., Berli...

Schuhplatteln without lederhosen, is that even possible? It is, but it’s painful. At any rate, it’s what Upper Austrian choreographer Simon Mayer does in this plucky danced attempt at liberating folklore fro...

What moves you and us, how does that feel? And: how does it work, this being moved deep down inside? To begin with, Simon Mayer focuses on breathing. This is what it’s like when air flows into and out of...

Is it possible to meet an animal - that with its three hearts and eight arms seems almost extraterrestrial - at eye level without depriving it of its fascinatingly different intelligence, without breaking...

For two minutes and fifty­six seconds / the both of us / yowled, / shortly before the sloth poured the bucket of car paint over them. / In the glove compartment, a fish in a negligee / is singing ballads i...

The Time*Sailors are back! It’s been more than a quarter of a century since the crew of Vienna’s Tanz*Hotel first set out dancing as Time*Sailors: Destination unknown and back! This time around, Captai...

A man approaches a beauty wearing dark sunglasses and a long white dress. The two find each other interesting, he offers himself as an armchair. An intimate song by Tom Waits starts to play. The dancer...

The ImPulsTanz audience may still remember Tiran Willemse from Trajal Harrell’s celebrated Maggie the Cat at Akademietheater. He now engages in his very own aesthetic in blackmilk (melancholia), the fi...

Keith Jarrett’s Köln Concert, the best-selling jazz solo record of all time, has served as a soundtrack for countless people for almost fifty years, in vulnerable moments as well as ecstatic ones. But be...

the mingled universes of Wim Vandekeybus, Olivier de Sagazan & Charo Calvo There is a mystical quality to the bodies smeared with clay and paint, swirling, stumbling and plunging their way through archaic...

The impact this man has had on late modern dance from the late 1980s onwards is enormous. Wim Vandekeybus started an aesthetic revolution at the age of 24 when he founded the company Ultima Vez and presented...

Who is Emmanuel ‘Mani’ Obeya? Willi Dorner, a fixture of the Viennese dance scene, had long conversations with Obeya, which evolved into this solo for the Nigerian­ born dancer, singer songwriter and ...