for professional dancers and artists The research and process-oriented projects are aimed specifically at professional dancers and artists. This programme focuses on collaborating on an equal footing in...

‘The colonial-modern aesthetic framework that disciplines and regulates the field of dance art, places the existence of contemporary dance in its opposition, its exclusion and its negation of ‘other’ dance...

the landscape is both evading and present at the same time is an assemblage of factors that create it is a superposition of times the landscape is many landscapes they were before and they will become it’s a...

The central questions of our research are: What can we do together that we cannot do alone? What is possible when love is stronger than fear? The core of this dance research project is a queer love centred...

The Field Project by Antonia Baehr and Jule Flierl is centred on questions of ‘ingenious dilettantism’: on ability, inability, on trial and error. Which working methods result from the ambition of fai...

Darling! Immerse yourself in the grandeur of opera with DRAMARAMA: Queering Opera Narratives, a Research workshop finely crafted for seasoned dancers, choreographers and artists who fancy themselves connaisseurs...

A workshop for sluts and goblins who wanna get a little messy, in the name of making dances! With a playful approach this field project explores socialised notions of sexiness, while referencing the concept...

This Field Project seeks to create a precarious and curious space between engagement and refuge – being present with queerness, the ongoing impact of political-health-ecological crises, and the importance o...

Nikima Jagudajev and Lester St Louis propose an interdisciplinary approach to choreographic and musical composition through game structures. The goal of the class is to support students in the development...

It is believed that when we are young, we are confused by the differing versions of what life ought to be: What is ethical, how to love, who to be. While some of us learn to quiet this angst, some of us...

The workshop is for dancers who are interested in choreography and learning about how to connect meaning to movement. Therefore, participants must come with a hunger to want to speak about subject matter...

This Research Project – initiated by artists and long-time friends Perel and Elizabeth Ward – examines collectivity and consent as a means of performance making. Aiming to work with queer-feminist and...

Sophia invites you to work on a solo performance: To bounce our clichés and our inner fire, building and deconstructing falsehood and truthfulness in a relationship with our self. Through exercises of ...

In this week-long laboratory environment, how can we create a ‘Badehaus’ (bathhouse) within the empty studio? In the ‘Badehaus’ we sweat, we soak, we rehydrate. We rest alone and publicly together. There i...

A Chimera is a mythological Greek figure, recognisable in its disparate parts but constituting an impossible whole. Traditionally, formed by the distinct parts of a goat, a lion and a snake but inevitably...

Understanding our physical selves as a mobile stage, a designated place for the production of actions ... where we can construct things to be and also learn to let things happen through movement while...

We develop individual choreographic and dramaturgical material which we cut, copy, paste and connect with the material of others. It is an attempt to construct more complex performative structures in the...

20 artists, 5 performances to attend together, 5 nights of re-enactment This immediate re-enactment process is a game, a challenge and a dare to take a position actively. Right after the show that we...

Tending: taking care of our own bodies and others. Tuning: finding diverse kinds of commonness with others and noticing the vibrancy of the places we inhabit. Can we reach a state in which “dancing” and...

The field project will attempt to generate a precarious and curious space between engagement and refuge, being present with queerness, the ongoing impact of political-health-ecological crises, and the...

In detail, the research project facilitates bodily experiences that help participants realise the impact that technical expressions could have on their creative process and choreography and vice versa....

How to perform with your digital Avatar? opera – a future game is a music theatre project turned into a videogame performance. In this field project we want to extend the performance with motion capture e...

Ricardo and Benoît work with voice, crystals, water, wood, conic transparent polyethylene resonant structures and magnets. Within their own paths, needing to let go of comprehending their meetings, in ...

A performative space has underlying pre-conditions to its existence that we all take part in – audiences watch, performers perform a pre-defined sequence of actions, all created by a choreographer.  In t...

excitement of non-aligned duets We keep it simple: We are talking about duets – any kind of duets. Ideas, methods and skills start with you. Attention, curiosity and experience are our invitation and g...

“For this research project, I would like to work on the direct relationship between dance and text, or, to put it another way, between a body in movement and a spoken text. This is a work that I started 3...

Mossbelly explores embodied ways to be with the knowledge and insights of plants and plant consciousness. We will invite a mutual field of reciprocity with different local plants. Sourcing from herbal...

The dialogue between Meg Stuart and Mark Tompkins began in 2016, when they started sharing their passion for improvisation, giving workshops and performances in radically different landscapes and contexts....

TARAB the door to enchanted sensuality or How to deal with cultural heritage of other cultures AND with your own? In Arab and Iranian culture TARAB happens when a body is gripped by the music and physical...

The idea for this field project arose in the conversation between Pieter (dancer, choreographer) and Michael (flute player) about breath and their personal experiences of respiration while performing....

This practice-oriented research project is about experimental voice work in relation to maps and scores. We will read objects, write signs and read out loud non-verbally. We will work with and on voicing;...

In Weaving Choreography we will explore and experiment with the notion of weaving, in ways that are both physical and metaphorical. Weaving bodies. Weaving materials. Weaving a text. Weaving stories. Beweaving...

For this research project, we take as an inspiration Céline Sciamma’s movie, Portrait of a Lady on Fire. The movie, as the director claims, is a manifesto about the female gaze. It playfully and beautifully ex...

Encounters is a series of dance pieces placed in rooms and spaces related to work. It departs from the idea that dance is work and sets out to expand the notion of work and to re-place contemporary...

“The Earth is rioting against our world.” – Bifo Berardi Based on Kliën’s recent Social Choreographic works Amendment and 11th Organ*, the Field Project manifests an expanded choreographic process to funda...

“For this research project, I would like to work on the direct relationship between dance and text, or to put it another way, between a body in movement and a spoken text. This is a work that I started 3...

The participants will research on diverse materials, such as fabrics, daily objects and industrial products in combination with their body, to find compelling transformations for these shapes, structures...

Doing Things with Music Jonathan as choreographer and Matteo as composer invite you to investigate the nature of the choreographic through the writing of music. No immediate musical skills are necessary...

New Rituals In Sacrificing Restraint How to start and where will it end? A series of sessions working individually are dedicated to you finding the rite way, to free yourself, to be yourself. Physically...

Oh, pleasure! The costs for this Field Project are to be paid by "pay what it's worth"-principle through the Workshop Office, once the participation has been confirmed. This Field Project is...

The Voice’s Body Irena and Jule will ask questions about what it means to choreograph the voice in the dance field, and about how to use your voice as an artist in the public sphere. Their research s...

IN_DIFFERENCE The Pro Series title refers to the creative space and potential of standing/moving/living in a difference – as in the place where different practices, skills, knowns and unknowns meet. The P...

CAMming: Collective Auto-Mythologising for the Camera A Field Project for movers and filmmakers alike The focus of this research project will be durational dance on film. Featuring Derek Howard. CAMming,...

Making things in the face of overload Note: this research project is fully booked, thus we can not accept any more applications! Even though dance is famously ephemeral it does spend resources to...

Sense Appeal Erotics in Performance (in public proximity and private distance) Edie Nightcrawler and Melanie Maar co-guide this research project situated on the continuum between their performance...

Folktrance – Being Moved Note: this research project is fully booked, thus we can not accept any more applications! In this Field Project we will practise states of being moved (trance states) a...

Moving To Bach / The Goldberg Variations, BWV 988 In this research project, Rosas dancer Marie Goudot and Alain Franco, long-time musical companion of Anne Teresa De Keermaeker and, for his part, a...

Minute Maids Together with and under the guidance of Liquid Loft choreographer Chris Haring, the participants* will create nothing less than a mini-solo festival on the stage of the Odeon Theatre: Inspired...

Voicing the Void Nature makes no mistakes “In this Research Project we delve into the depths of the unrevealed body in search of text, of sounds, of stories untold, of presence. We examine the u...

LAMENTS Researching the physical language of laments featuring Irene Coticchio from the Cowbirds In this field project Brazilian-British choreographer Jean Abreu and the Viennese based, Belgian dance...

The Breath and language of others A Research Project conducted as dialogue between Claudia Bosse, Yosi Wanunu and the workshop participants. How do we breathe someone else’s text? How do we give it a...

Body Scenography Understanding our physical selves as a mobile stage, a designated place for the production of actions ... where we can construct things to be and also learn to let things happen through...

Ancient Kinetic Wisdom Recoil, Resilience, Oscillation Fractal Repetition Traditional Beninese Polyrhythms Introduction to Geomancy – The Fa Group/Solo Awareness Performativity This project will f...

The Choreographic Engine The Field Project proposes different forms of research based on various dance vocabularies und improvisation methods. Above all, dancers will learn how to bring in and develop...

Exercises for Rebel Artists This Field Project is booked! we are sorry, that we can not accept any more applications! Guillermo Gómez-Peña will perform on 11July at 21:00 at the Atelierhaus of the A...

Converging Matters of Anatomy This Field Project is booked! we are sorry, that we can not accept any more applications!  For this Field Project Anne Juren and Philipp Gehmacher join forces to put...

Also dancing: Intimacies with the inHuman The question of "who is dancing" relates intimately with the question "what is human?" What kinds of practices are entangled in our concept of the human and the...

Non-representational physical communication Since nearly 10 years now, Raul Maia and Thomas Steyaert have been investigating on what they call "non-representational physical communication" between performers....

Unstable Nights Together with the participants, a transdisciplinary group of artists will make and host a collective space of experimentation and sharing in the MQ Hofstallung. In the evening, this space...

DISNEGATIF If a choreographic dispositif offers a framework for making sense of a performance's language, a disnegatif could perhaps embrace the choreographic engines that make things fall apart. Rooted...

afroFUTUREqu##r How do we dance for the future? In fits and starts, in video bits and interfaces? Where does our shared history matter as we imagine forward? This is a research workshop dancing toward...

Voilà Working title: The most important thing in the universe Choreographic assistant: Helena Araujo What am I focused on and what do I want my audience to be focused on? Am I aware of the aesthetic/monetary ...

Black, White, Grey: Who’s afraid? It seems that my current preoccupation boils down to the question of what different artistic disciplines do. I’m interested how ideas in dance performance and the vis...

Institute of the Kenns A relaxing dance within the increasingly irrelevant, to discuss the present impossibility of subversion. An aesthetic proposition. Ken Russell and Kenneth Anger, I do the google...

a composition of bodies What moves us to move, to dance? From our dawn the impulse has always been sound. Dancing has been bound to sound since we discovered the joy of movement, with no purpose other...

Danza y Frontera A choreography of resistance at the border between Mexico and the US. This Field Project features live music by Christian Müller and Edgar Uriel Soria Rodriguez. In this Field Project ...

technopeasantry Dancing is a technology of ecstasy, one that has not gotten extinct, yet there were times where there was much more of it happening. Barbara Ehrenreich asks in Dancing in the Streets,...

Play-Fight Play-Fight is a self-empowering physical practice that threads through martial arts and the dance worlds. It is exactly at this unique intersection of languages, with seemingly opposite purposes,...

Do yourself a favour! A PRACTICAL COACHING ON CREATING A SOLO This Field Project is booked! we are sorry, that we can not take any more applications! There is an Add-On-Workshop with Ivo Dimchev in Week3....

V-A.W.A.R.E.N.E.S.S. A – Authenticity, Awareness W – Womb: giving birth to ideas, creation/creativity A – Alignment: centring, focus, control R – Rhythm, Research. E – Emotion N – Nurturing: feed our mi...

From Act to Acting GUIDELINES FOR A PERFORMER IN THE 21ST CENTURY This Pro Series is booked! we are sorry, that we can not take any more applications!  Just like figures such as Stanislavski, Meyerhold,...

Wormhole Through Your Brain Trance Forms: Affect and Analysis Oscillating wildly between abandon and articulation The attempt to both achieve and analyse various trance/liminal states of consciousness...

Moving Mirrors Creating Ensembles This Field Project is based on the choreographic exchange "Moving the Mirror" in fall 2016 in Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art in Warsaw. We will work...

Dynamics of fluids and sensorial memories During this research lab, Benoît Lachambre will explore the materialisation of presence and relational memory. Conveying a heightened awareness of the dynamics ...

RADIO SHOW RADIO SHOW will be a Field Project that involves different practices from visual arts, sound composition, poetry and choreography. A juicy mix of things Andrea Maurer and Frans Poelstra have...

the inside is the outside is the inside : about nothing This Pro Series is booked! we are sorry, that we can not take any more applications!  Angela Schubot shares her practices of how to get into...

You are a complement of the other! (intimate performances - harmonising body energies by dance and touch) This Field Project is booked! we are sorry, that we can not take any more applications! The sensitive...

Gauging A few years ago during training with the group Animatronik we had the fundamental idea of developing a tool, which facilitates the cultivation of the fix-point-principle in the Popping dance style...

Chinese Opera Body Training This Field Project consists of two parts: performance methodology description and performance methodology training. The performance methodology training leads participants,...

Serious Fun! When improvising, each performer is working simultaneously on different levels of perception; listening, watching, sensing, acting, reacting to one's self and one’s partners. The art of r...

Beastie People This Field Project is booked! we are sorry, that we can not take any more applications!  Starting point for this Field Project are non-human movement and behavioural patterns. In...

 Love is the Agreement with live-music by klaus janek This Field Project is fully booked! We regret that we can not revise any more applications! "Meeting Pawel Althamer in Berlin, I see many shared...

Mobile Migration- stories on the run In the last months Daniel Aschwanden and Conny Zenk developed a research practice with refugees in the Café VOZO, a communication space run together by students, ...

Everything fits in the room The fundamentals are there. There is a window only it won’t be accessible in quite the same way or we simply won’t see the view through it in this configuration.  There are...

Do yourself a favour! A PRACTICAL COACHING ON CREATING A SOLO This Field Project is booked! we are sorry, that we can not take any more applications! The aim is that everyone has a coherent solo performance...

Autodomestication / We are the Meeting Incorporating aspects of Eurythmy, soma(tic) rituals, dog training, trash collecting, observing patterns of bird migrations, reading the lines of the movements of...

Liquid Contents This Field Project is a practical workshop in performance-making, whereby participants are invited to make and share performance work tailored to a variety of contexts - i.e. for the theatre...

With Maria and Jan This Field Project is fully booked! We are sorry that we can not take any more applications - thanks for considering other research projects! JM: Maria, would you join me to the Belvédère? MH: O...

Intimacy and Scale The Field Project Intimacy and Scale will take place in two related parts; Angela Schubot will lead a physical practice focused on building intimacy, while Calla Henkel and Max Pitegoff...

NOSE A Nose is an expert in translating an idea/feeling into an odor. This is her job. Her expertise is a skill but a very, very subjective one. Some smells make us nostalgic and others make us nauseous....

Critique and the Event Three kinds of events – Models of (critical) writing – The chain and the score: Event-based curating – The transition into practice – Return to foreign lands: back to the text. ...

Wormhole Through Your Brain Trance Forms: Affect and Analysis Oscillating wildly between abandon and articulation This Field Project is fully booked! We regret that we can not revise any more applications! The...

That choreographs us! Active in the dance milieu since the 1970s, Benoît Lachambre was introduced to Releasing in 1985. He is the founder of Par B.L.eux, an artistic platform whose mission is the creation, ...

Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs - Field Trips To Vienna I invited Rirkrit for a joint workshop venture during Impulstanz because of my admiration for RT’s ‚social choreographies’, his communal cooki...

STATES OF GRACE: Contact Improvisation, Contemplation, and Collaboration This Field Project is fully booked! We regret that we can not revise any more applications! Can we access and change physical,...

Do yourself a favour! A practical Coaching on creating a Solo NOTE: This Research Project is already fully booked, we can not process any more applications! The aim is that everyone has a coherent solo...

A Dark Tale “Because these wings are no longer wings to fly But merely vans to beat the air The air which is now thoroughly small and dry Smaller and dryer than the will.” – T.S. Eliot A dark tale ...

Charged Documents Let us now praise famous men, and women too In the frame of ImPulsTanz at mumok - redefining action(ism) The exhibition "My Body is the Event" at the mumok is packed with screens,...

Performing Extra Large After the large extravagance of "Antigone Sr.", the knock'em dead medium "(M)imosa", and the avalanche of the series in the 2012 and 2013 ImPulsTanz Festival editions, Trajal Harrell's...

Get B(l)ack Black Aesthetics and Contemporary Dance In this Field Project, work with two artists of diverse background to create discourse concerned with the b(l)ackgrounds of contemporary performance....