Brightly shining above Akemi Takeya’s artistic world is the lemon. Under the title Lemonism, the artist has developed a series of works in this light since 2015. Here, with her new solo performed in Ada...

There is no need to pimp the reality of the body because it is beautiful, exciting and fascinating enough as it is. Especially in dance. Alexander Vantournhout, one of the most sought-after Belgian choreographers...

Major issues like migration and divisions in society are on Kristina and Sadé Alleyne’s minds, too. They are, among other things, two of the most renowned and most popular teachers at the ImPulsTanz wo...

How does the dance of moss appear? How do our bones and flesh tap into this dance? And on which planes is the bodily happening? MOSSBELLY is emerging from long-term, deep encounters with moss. A choreography o...

You often hear that dance is a universal language. But what does it really mean to communicate through dance? How much of both our cultural and individual history remains when words fail and the body ...

The two of them have very different artistic approaches, but in their thinking and in the passion they feel for dance, they are very similar. Both Anne Juren and Frédéric Gies started dancing in France a...

“I am alone but inhabited”, we read at the beginning of Anne Lise Le Gac’s “radical blend” La Caresse du Coma ft. YOLO. For 45 days the performance artist has been sitting in a Croatian four-star spa, search...

Two women in white sneakers and dresses dance with breathtaking precision. Fase was Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker’s breakthrough as a choreographer. The four-part early masterpiece remains intact after t...

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 2023. T...

A “Birdcage” full of drag queens? Not really, because the three funny and accomplished dancers in Simple do not exactly fill the stage in the literal sense. Fortunately, there is still plenty of room for...

“Utopian rituals” that give the prevailing politics and organisation of society “a positive injection”: this is how dance aficionado and Belgian countertenor and director Benjamin Abel Meirhaeghe underst...

Light, yearning and promising, the sensual voice of countertenor Benjamin Abel Meirhaeghe floats in this electronic performance concert that balances in a relaxed way between spectacle and love ritual. ...

The dancing sound of Firedog and Water Rat – three proverbial impossibilities; The Ogre, the Phoenix and the Faithful Friend; plus Boreal Castles: this performance trilogy covers what Benoît Lachambre con...

The dancing sound of Firedog and Water Rat – three proverbial impossibilities; The Ogre, the Phoenix and the Faithful Friend; plus Boreal Castles: this performance trilogy covers what Benoît Lachambre con...

The dancing sound of Firedog and Water Rat – three proverbial impossibilities; The Ogre, the Phoenix and the Faithful Friend; plus Boreal Castles: this performance trilogy covers what Benoît Lachambre con...

A dance governed by impulses, stimuli and meandering states of mind. A piece that savours the mood between sleep and wakefulness and the inner stirrings in the state of drowsiness, when the unconscious...

Ever since she was a teenager, Chara Kotsali has been terrified and fascinated alike by horror movies and their characters, above all the possessed woman, a staple of the genre. In her solo To Be Possessed, ...

Looking into the distance is a well-known motif in art: see Caspar David Friedrich’s painting The Monk by the Sea, for example, or countless photos filled with longing on Instagram. The name Miramar, m...

Ten years before Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, the performance art group Pussy Riot sparked a storm of media attention with their protest gig in Moscow’s Cathedral of Christ the Saviour. To mark the cen...

A concert? A performance? Stand-up comedy? Provocative quiz show? Absurd poetry? An experimental performance? All at once? Or simply: Ivo Dimchev! In the last 20 years the Bulgarian artist has not just ...

After his incredible Facebook Theatre at mumok in 2015 and many other concerts since, artist, performer, singer and musician Ivo Dimchev presents his popular concert format with audience participation: “...

For Marie Chouinard, dancing means applying every available emotional and mental movement as well as the entire body matter and its dynamics, and making the most of it all. In this new work, the Canadian...

Shoes, their style and fetish, their symbolism and the allure of the label. In this work, created as a collaboration with Olivier Saillard, the artistic director of J.M. Weston, Mathilde Monnier plays...

A polyphony of pulsating bodies, guided and carried by Tomas Furey’s transcendental, energetic music, unfolds a ritual that is as enjoyable as it is hypnotic. This is the trio Dog Rising by Canadian m...

The Egyptian Book of the Dead conjures up the magic of stepping out into the light of day. How it can assist with a symbolic rebirth today is demonstrated in this piece, in which Olivier Dubois submits...

A politically complex social construct and a provocative figure of discourse – that is what the CUNT represents. For Dani Brown, born in New York and currently a Berliner, the CUNT is even more than t...

It requires a lot of skill to go all out yet remain relaxed, casual and ironic. Even more so when, as in this piece, the bodies of the dancers do entirely without the protection of clothes. more than naked...

In Beyond The Overflow, art does its striptease. Body at work, body for sale, worked body, the performer is both an art object and a place crossed by desire: an object of multiple transactions. Elisabeth...

Dance can become vegetal. And the four dancers Alix Eynaudi, Samuel Feldhandler, Mzamo Nondlwana and Elizabeth Ward demonstrate how this can be imagined. The latter is, so to speak, the choreographic gardener...

The Heidi Horten Collection, high-profile art collection in Vienna, welcomes an illustrious guest: Emmanuelle Huynh, one of the most well-established representatives of the French dance scene. Huynh has...

Fireworks, firemen, spectacle, frenzy: BURN! is controlled chaos. Esben Weile Kjær, who doesn’t think of himself as a choreographer or dancer but a visual artist, appropriates the brute-force strategies of t...

A 40th ImPulsTanz – Vienna International Dance Festival and the 10th anniversary of Doris Uhlich’s classic: more than naked premiered at ImPulsTanz in 2013! Now we celebrate these two high-energy occasio...

After four weeks of intensive dancing students present excerpts of their achievements. An atmospherically exuberant finale!

Dancers of every style, level and age are invited to battle for the grand prize – a residency at ImPulsTanz 2024 – on 29 July at 20:15. The challenge is not only to outsmart the other participants throu...

A mysteriously eerie atmosphere awaits the audience. Seven figures sit or lie motionless in a semi-dark room. The moment the stage lights are turned on, loud music sounds from a radio, a woman appears...

Reappropriating “batty bwoy”, a Jamaican homophobic slang term, Harald Beharie’s intense solo performance moves between attribution and self-actualization. What kind of energies can be drawn from the d...

Live: Peaches (DE/CA) Special Appearance: LOU ASRIL (AT)  DJ-Support: Dial1808 (AT) & Kristian Davidek (AT) None other than the iconic feminist musician, producer, director and performance artist Peaches, ...

Live: LYZZA (NL/BR) DJ-Support: Dalia Ahmed (AT) & Peeps (DE/FR) On this evening the ImPulsTanz Festival Lounge closes and Kasino at Schwarzenberplatz opens its doors for the legendary ImPulsTanz B-Side...

Ishmael Houston-Jones (New York), whose stunning video portrait can be seen in the Adam Pendleton exhibition and Keith Hennessy (San Francisco), both highly influential artists in the US and Europe, improvise...

Even before James Batchelor takes the stage, we see who brought him here: a video shows his childhood dance teacher, Ruth Osborne, demonstrating the methods of someone she herself was hugely influenced...

He has caused a stir or two, introduced a whole new way of thinking to dance and prompted a turning point in contemporary choreography. With his artistic approach, inspired by postmodern philosophy and...

Moderated by Kurier editor Peter Jarolin, there will be an exclusive KURIER talk about the production « M » by Compagnie Marie Chouinard at Volkstheater – in the presence of Marie Chouinard and festival direc...

What is being left to future generations, and what has been inherited from ancestors? What has, as of yet, neither been perceived nor imagined? Lara Kramer transfers Them Voices – the voices of her mixe...

In Europe, forests are generally considered to be cultural landscapes and recreational areas. The peace and quiet as well as the clean air are much appreciated, hunters fetch game and pickers pick mushrooms...

How are we to survive? A question that burns inside the bodies of six of Liquid Loft’s dancers as soon as they enter the stage together with Viennese rock experimentalists Bulbul in this world premiere. L.I.F.E stands for ...

Plants live in different time conditions than the tense human being. So if you want to be receptive and exchange ideas with them, you should downshift. Like, for example, in this sensitive and sensual ...

Completely off the rails! Lau Lukkarila and Luca Bonamore take their audience to an imaginary karaoke bar, which serves as the setting for their encounter. There, in the stimulating light of a scarlet...

This is what happens when the doyenne of postmodern dance, and theatre all-rounder Robert Wilson – two great personalities of the performing arts with a shared past sit – at home alone because of the pan...

One of the leading figures of US postmodern dance distils the narrative motif of a choreography for herself from a short story by the New York writer and essayist Susan Sontag published in 1984. Lucinda...

The odd humour in this solo is a means of criticism; and the self-exposure reveals an underlying racism: a “Samba of the Crazy Creole” wants to settle the score with the position that Brazil’s Black popul...

A duet, but not only between two dancers: Marga Alfeirão’s LOUNGE is a place where opposites – movement and rest, giving and receiving, the private and the public – meet and merge into a transitory space not...

Internal resistance, exposed to the brink of self-destruction, determines the life and work of this dance extremist. “I have always imagined myself in the middle of the stage, as a heroine, taking revenge o...

She could no longer stay in Argentina. “This work is a farewell,” says Marina Otero. She presented the premiere of LOVE ME in Buenos Aires as an act of rupture and then fled to Spain. It has become a sol...

You cannot put it any more clearly: “Nothing is more brutal than the trivialisation of gestures, words and aggressions against women.” The position Mathilde Monnier, one of France’s most influential chore...

He is a man who indulges in a little happiness – a holiday from the hardships of the world of work on an island of contentment. He has all he needs to do so: leisure in abundance, his own little house, a...

A long history, two outstanding artists. Since 2016, Meg Stuart and Mark Tompkins have shared a passion for improvisation, as here in this real-time composition accompanied by musician Martin Siewert. ...

Having danced like Meg Stuart, one accumulates an enormous, mysterious and sometimes monstrous reservoir of body memories over the course of an artistic career. Add to this the impact of traumas, joys...

A public confession, an intimate dive into the depths of the self and at the same time a rebellion against the vulgar unpacking of narcissistic self-promoters. This is Confession Publique, a solo developed by...

Anyone who was bullied as a child will probably understand the impact of such exclusion. This is exactly what happened to Janis Joplin, and the songs of the rock icon reflect the pain of these humiliations:...

Wherever she shows this solo, created eleven years ago, it immediately attracts everybody’s attention. Nadia Beugré fights in a sparkly dress, a cable around her neck, against surroundings of garbage th...

Romeo isn’t quite himself in this story. First, he is transported from his old, heartbreaking tragedy to a comedy and ends up in a fairyland. Why? Because Needcompany wanted to devote themselves entirely t...

Not exactly known for being squeamish, cult director Quentin Tarantino (Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill) is “a choirboy” compared to “the sheer brutality evoked by Shakespeare”, according to Needcompany masterm...

When people come together and work or stand up for something as a community, this may cause Ofelia Jarl Ortega to burst into tears. The young choreographer and dancer of Chilean ancestry, daughter of a...

“What is at the core of sex?” Infinite possibilities or an eternal void? In order to find answers and ultimately a way out of this cycle of bodily commodification and the prison-house of gender, Vienna-based dir...

Aggression, anger and brutality are deplored yet fascinating attributes of the human body. Ruth Childs explores these phenomena in her new solo Blast!, focusing on the violent and explosive but also the...

“The relationship between three lovers, the camera being one of them.” That is what Samira Elagoz agreed with Cade Moga, with whom he shares the screen in this masterful, four-hour film performance. But...

“Hurray, we’re still alive!” In his new piece MATHIEU, Sebastiano Sing recognizes shamelessly grand emotion as the common denominator of the hit parade and Tanztheater and, in that, creates a new genre:...

His name is synonymous with daring pieces and perfect dance, he caused legendary scandals and had a tragic life. This piece by French-born choreographer Sidney Leoni pays homage to Vaslav Nijinsky, who...

ImPulsTanz Symposium for Dance and Other Contemporary Practices LACE #1: Topographies of Touch 21.–23. Juli Volksoper Probebühne 1 + 2 & online In Topographies of Touch experts working at the intersection of...

On the eve of the ImPulsTanz – Young Choreographers’ Award Ceremony 2023, the jury – choreographer and dancer Tamara Alegre, author Anna Kozonina and curator Mateusz Szymanówka – hosts a musical roundtab...

A great film is in the making, and it needs a central scene of stunning musical acts with people who perform and those who enjoy this Grand and Glorious Party by Viennese artist duo Peter Kutin and Florian K...

a post(operatic)-apocalyptic video game essay with music by ole hübner and texts by thomas köck based on the opera opera, opera, opera! revenants&revolutions The (in)ability of collective action, pro...

Yosi Wanunu and Roland Rauschmeier in the roles of two portraits of a pope ponder ageing, time and dying, art history and interpretation, their faces overshadowed in horror. The two popes are devastated,...

This is where the catwalk meets Maggie the Cat. But the focus shifts in this brilliant dance reinterpretation of Tennessee Williams’ world-famous Southern drama Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, whose film version s...

Generations of music fans count it among their favourites: The Köln Concert by US American jazz pianist Keith Jarrett. And the voice of Canadian singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell, who turns 80 this year ...

The 1776 Declaration of Independence is regarded as the political foundation for the United States of America. Trajal Harrell took a fresh look at it and was fascinated by the urgency of this call for...

We cordially invite all participants and dance enthusiasts to the programme presentation of the workshop teachers at Schmelz. The best opportunity to get to know our guests before the courses start!

A two-part evening that brings together artistic positions that have one thing in common: a “twist”, a tipping point after which, just like in real life, nothing is the same anymore. Yulia Arsen’s work ...