"Two Discussions of an Anterior Event" "Skin Mitten" was the title New York choreographer Jennifer Lacey gave to one of her earlier works in which she engaged with not quite conventional representations...

"The show must go on" Wonderful hits from 30 years of pop culture make this work a real delight. But it wouldn’t be a concoction by French conceptual choreographer Jérôme Bel if there wasn’t another level...

"Pichet Klunchun and myself" Two men sit on a stage opposite each other. Each asks the other a question. One of them, Jérôme Bel, is French and a choreographer embedded in conceptualist, post-modern E...

"Eines Tages" (ab 3 Jahren) Which animal looks like a conductor but doesn't have an orchestra? the 21 year-old Jianan Qu, dance student at the Institute for Dance Arts of the Anton Bruckner University...

"Erase-E(X)" Concept : Joji Inc Johanne Saunier / Jim Clayburgh Choreography : The Wooster Group, Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, Isabella Soupart It seems quite natural when it happens in our heads...

"Both Sitting Duet" Jonathan Burrows and Matteo Fargion stay in their seats. Despite that, since its premiere in 2002, their piece “Both Sitting Duet” has been seen at all the important festivals bet...

"The Quiet Dance" After the success of "Both Sitting Duet" choreographer Jonathan Burrows and composer Matteo Fargion set off together for foreign shores with "The Quiet Dance." Their shared passion...

"Questo Ricordo" (8 years up) Crows flap, drumbeats, a man throws his head back and laughs. Some place somewhere where the boy, the man and the grandfather live. Each of them seems to be waiting for...

"Running Sushi" What is revealed by a glance into the Zen philosophy of a manga household? In an age of animation, fun factors and television shows a very well entertained society is heading towards...

"Structure Multifonctions" Having conversations with strangers, listening to stories or exchanging them or simply having a change of perspective. The artists' collective from Amsterdam, LISA, makes it...

"0101" With "0101" Canadian Lynda Gaudreau begins a new choreographic and dance investigation in Vienna. The artist became known (at the very latest) with her project-in-progress "Encyclopedia". Up...

"Umwelt" Daily life often appears as if it is in a land of mirrors in which average people like you and I, with all their unmistakeable characteristics, surface repeatedly only to quickly disappear...

"NO PARADERAN" It’s show time, folks! Everything's here, beautiful people, drinks and music, an audience, a good atmosphere and a red velvet curtain. Nevertheless Marco Berrettini's scandal surrounded p...

"Still Smoking" Alternating feelings and lighting beneath fifteen chandeliers. Six beautiful people dressed in black and playing with dance rituals. Without any haste the small, isolated group wraps...

"frère&sœur" Two figures in everyday clothes slowly emerge from black, box-like architecture and after this "birth" immediately begin to argue and fight with one another. Mathilde Monnier's choreography "...

"2008 vallée - pièce pour 7 chanteurs danseurs" Cool and passionate, ironic, absurd and at times saturated in subversive gaiety, singing and dancing – that is "2008 vallée – pièce pour 7 chanteurs danseur...

"store" Shopping completely differently for once! Art customers find perfect conditions in the "store" of the two dancers Michikazu Matsune and David Subal. Their shop carries inexpensive visual and...

"50/50" Spectacular expression, patterns of movement as in a rock concert, the opera and the circus. A head hidden beneath a bright red wig, trainers and skin. Mette Ingvartsen versus Yvonne Rainer:...

"Retrospective Exhibitionist and Difficult Bodies" A man and three women plus two pieces in one: "Retrospective Exhibitionist and Difficult Bodies" by Miguel Gutierrez and the Powerful People begins...

MOZART CHOREOGRAPHIEN Philipp Gehmacher & Alexander Lonquich on the piano (A/I) „das überkreuzen beyder hände“ Salva Sanchis & Alexander Lonquich on the piano (E/I) „Zehn Variationen in G“ J...

"Couples of Moments" / "Two Faces" / "Birth-Day" Datum: 28.06.2006, 20h, MQ Halle E It's all about taking leave...The famous Netherlands Dans Theater III founded by Jirí Kylián in 1991 for exceptional d...

„An Evening With P.A.R.T.S.“ P.A.R.T.S. presents an evening composed of creations of the students graduating from the 4th year. Andros Zinsbrowne presents ‘*Limewire’, 5 dancers moving in and out of ...

"Délire Défait" In his solo work "Delire Defait" Benoit Lachambre, probably Canada's most radical choreographer and one of the most intensive dancers in the entire international scene altogether, d...

"Flatland1" A flat man imagines life in three dimensional space to be heavenly. In " Flatland – Part I (Going up, not North)", a mixture of video essay and fairytale for adults, Portuguese Patrícia Po...

"Young People, Old Voices" Twelve well built young people and a very small man with a hump. Songs from old celebrities like Dean Martin, Bette Davis, Patsy Cline and Judy Garland. A stage that is provided...

"Double Trio Live Vienna" The encounter of live musicians and dancers on stage generates a very special tension. How will the groups behave to each another and what atmosphere can be created on stage...

"D'avant" A powerful weakness for medieval vocal music was the starting point for four prominent contemporary dancers, singers and choreographers to work together. The quartet consists of Sidi Larbi...

"BIG 3rd episode (happy/end)" Lucky Superamas! The successful Franco-Austrian collective in whose work film and choreography, theatre, soap opera, music and advertising, science and dancing lights,...

"Barcelona in 48 hours" (film / photo / music / dance) David Zambrano is a mad choreographer, a dancer that knows no limits. He rushes from one city to the next, from performances to workshops to projects....

"Melissa is a Bitch“ Annie Sprinkle meets PJ Harvey! New York choreographer and designer Ann Liv Young will show her work for the first time here in Europe. Her creations are personal to a large extent a...

"Unruhiges Wohnen" Uneasy Living „By no means does this choreography portray Elfriede Jelinek‘s writing in a naturalistic manner nor does it adhere to the composer‘s soundscape. The hard and cold ...

"d.a.v.e. 100" Performance - interactive Installation - Party 'Sensational', 'groundbreaking', 'masterpiece', 'singularly', 'fascinating', are the comments of the international press to the media performance...

"La Vision du Lapin“ Using their incredible stage presence Laurence Yadi and Nicolas Cantillion whisk the audience away into a time loop where bits and pieces of the invisible begin to appear before y...

"bODY_rEMIX/gOLDBERG_vARIATIONS“ Unbelievably flexible and excitingly vibrant dancers in mysterious setting are characteristic traits of Canadian star choreographer Marie Chouinard, as she and her e...

"Letters from Tentland“ Tents are subject to a limited lifetime, they roam through time, they bend in time. They are elastic and provide protection. Renowned for her unconventional projects, Berlin b...

"The Modesty of Icebergs“ According to 52 year old Canadian choreographer Daniel Léveillé skin is the only suit that can truly be worn by the body. And he takes this credo literally. In both “Amour, acide...

"amour, acide et noix“ According to 52 year old Canadian choreographer Daniel Léveillé skin is the only suit that can truly be worn by the body. And he takes this credo literally. In both “Amour, acide...

"Double Points: One & Two" The dancer is caught up in Maurice Ravel’s Bolero composition as it increases in intensity to the point of unbearableness. He chases his body, hesitates, shakes, follows a...

"Skènè“ A vehement plea for encounters held via an excellently composed duet “ ‘Skènè,’ a jewel to be cherished,” which is how Jeroen Peeters described the second piece by Etienne Guilloteau, a graduate of...

"Ich bin bei Dir" Frans Poelstra and his dramaturg Robert Steijn share a late-night programme to celebrate their family affairs. "Helena - a family story with video"  15min  (premiere) A performance by...

"Rekonstruktionen von Sologestaltungen 1923 - 1951" Rosalia Chladek was an acclaimed protagonist of expressive dance and the only European dance expressionist who knew how to pass on her oeuvre to...

"We Are All Marlene Dietrich FOR" In the wild dance satire “We are all Marlene Dietrich FOR” the Iceland Dance Company cuts to the chase. Shooting star choreographer Erna Ómarsdóttir from Iceland, also ...

"DRÄNGEN" in cooperation with Maja Slattery, Veronika Siemer and Johanna Tatzgern An excellent dancer, Ingrid Reisetbauer has collaborated with Willi Dorner, Christine Gaigg and Milli Bitterli and ...

"Isabella's Room" There is a woman who could be straight out of a fairy tale. Masterly performed by actress Vivianne de Muynck, Isabella Morandi recalls her life that spans over 90 years. In a lighted...

"Blindspot" Leonard Cohen, Johann Sebastian Bach and Niklas Luhmann on stage. Dance pop, dance classic, dance system theory! The dancer/theater director Jan Ritsema did it again! After his hit “Weak d...

"Bach Suite 2" (Ch: Francine Lancelot, M: J.S. Bach) "Véronique Doisneau" (Ch: Jérôme Bel, M: P.I. Tschaikovsky) "Apollon" (Ch: George Balanchine, M: Igor Stravinsky) "O zlózóny / O composite" (Ch:...

"kind of heroes" Live-Music: Andreas Berger This is about heroes. The kind that come out of what Austrian choreographer Chris Haring calls “my private body shop.” But, of course, something has gone awr...

"Campo de 'Fiori“ A person of a seemingly nondescript gender and age sits in an armchair on a sparsely set stage. Only a few props make reference to Giordano Bruno, a great thinker of the Renaissance, a...

"Verdeckte Ermittlung“ A nervous dance in a dark, half-lit space that demands clarity. Investigations on the “crime scene” body, identikit pictures, interrogating witnesses. And the commissioner? He do...

"Ausflug" In “Ausflug” Berlin based choreographer Martin Nachbar (known for his collaboration work with Vera Mantero, Thomas Plischke and Thomas Lehmen) brings the audience to a shabby countryside inn...

"Was bleibt von mir? Teil 3“ of two hundred words for different feelings, two engaging videos projected in dialogue and over half a dozen versions of Jacques Brel’s sigh-invoking “Ne me quitte pas” ...

"Basic Dance“ Paz Rojo created a solo. Then she began to work with dancer Cristian Duarte on a possible translation in order to transform her quite personal choreography into a solo pice for Duarte. T...

"incubator" The stage is an incubator. Inside, four figures unfold, stretch out, roll up and come to life. Each movement shows either one singular movement or is already a gesture. The young Austrian...

"Project 1" Ice guitars melting, bone-chilling sounds, spilled milk, shredded telephone books, microbiotic images on a monitor, singers performing on the edge of singability, musicians performing beyond...

"Raga For The Rainy Season / A Love Supreme" (M: John Coltrane) This is Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker in the midst of Indian spirituality and a jazzy love-stricken bout, in a shower of overwhelming emotions...

"Desh" Sparkling sequences of movement on pounded clay. The three exquisite dancers kick up fine dust with their feet that then floats around them as if it were a magical veil of haze in the dreamlike...

"Land Body Scape III“ This is spatial art distilled to its finest concentration in which the content is organized using selected leitmotivs and conveyed through using the universal languages of dance a...

"Et demain...“ What separates the banal from the powerfully meaningful or boredom from violence? It is such a fine line; and the finer the line, the greater the distance between the privileged and u...

"Young Austrian Dance: works-in-progress" "Subject to Change" is an open forum for presenting and affording insight into experimental, unfinished and daunting work for emerging choreographers residing...

“Dolap“ / "Sek Sek“ A man, a woman and between them: a refrigerator monster as tall as a person, center stage. The man (Turkish choreographer Mustafa Kaplan) makes the fridge topple onto the woman lying...

"Fuga-ce“ Italian-born Austrian dance artist Elio Gervasi artfully brings together a brilliant choreography with a highly charged interpretation of Johann Sebastian Bach’s “ Art of the Fugue” in his ...

"Le Salon" “Peeping Tom” is back. The Belgian collective that has continuously been well-received throughout all of Europe with their piece “Le Jardin” is now on tour with a new piece: “La Salon.” A...

"hey dude ..... i have talent ..... i'm just waiting for god ....." Two choreographers in African slums: the fluid choreographic field of experiment that Vera Mantero (Portugal) and the most highly...

"Les porteuses de mauvaises nouvelles" The dancers exert themselves to the point of exhaustion, until their overwhelming instinctiveness and animality burst out of them full speed. Darts fly through...

"ZZ" The glass is singing. The dancer’s fingers are moving along its edge, a gentle melody starts to fill the room. In her piece "ZZ" the Austrian choreographer Akemi Takeya, born in Japan, successfully u...

"MA" Akram Khan stands for dance and energy in its purest form; with his latest creation "Ma" his innovative, idiosyncratic fusion of classic Northern Indian kathak and contemporary Western dance enters...

"J’aime" Two young women who love to dance. In "J’aime" Anne Juren and Alice Chauchat show us why. Their stage is a glittering dancefloor. The enticing sounds by DJ Assault from Detroit have the flo...

"Once" A record player, a chair, a thermos flask – and dancer Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker. An old vinyl record: Joan Baez in Concert, 1963. The dancer is wearing a blue dress, similar to the one worn b...

"eigenSinn" We all know the Grimm’s tale of the stubborn child who opposed its mother, became ill, died, and even in its grave would not keep still. Antje Pfundtner takes this obstinacy as a starting p...

"Bocal: T.P." The French choreographer Boris Charmatz is not only an artist crossing many borders; he also takes a passionate interest in various strategies of enlightenment, and since he attempts and...

Chris Haring & Stephanie Cumming "diese Körper, diese Spielverderber ..." Chris Haring, one of the most original local choreographers where the interlacing of concrete and virtual reality is concerned, ...

"autant vouloir le bleu du ciel" A cloaked figure in a red checked jacket is plying with a variety of objects: shining eggs, flowers, and coins. Balloons filled with red granules are swishing, and taws...

"TRIKE – summer" A sequence of quick movements to and fro, like film cadres assembled in fast rhythms. Three female dancers are systematically building up their movement phrases upon small time units. T...

"Hommages" A bow towards life and passion - these are the four solo works with the title "Hommages", which Mark Tompkins developed between 1989 and 1998. He dedicated them to those figures in dance...

"Chorale" & "Le Sacre du Printemps" Animal instinct and modern rites: "Chorale" (2003), a stirring piece by the expressive Canadian choreographer Marie Chouinard, has ten dancers howling at the moon,...

"Hängende Gärten" A housing area in the 10th district, the flats are empty. So far they do not have a history. And yet each room has a striking influence on the behaviour of any body moving within. T...

"As if (it was beautiful)" Kattrin Deufert and Thomas Plischke are artistic twins working under the label "frankfurter küche (leipzig)", and they are among the most idiosyncratic and original choreographers ...

"Bonus" For the work on his solo piece "Bonus", Romanian choreographer Eduard Gabia has performed some radical experiments on himself. Extreme physical conditions like days of blindness or sleeplessness...

"Frans Poelstra zaubert" "Frans Poelstra, his dramaturg and Bach" The joke, the improvisation, the pitfalls of public acting, playing and dancing, his own stage personality and the presence of the...

"Frans Poelstra zaubert" "Frans Poelstra, his dramaturg and Bach" The joke, the improvisation, the pitfalls of public acting, playing and dancing, his own stage personality and the presence of the...

"Almost Dark" The thrilling experiment of a deconstruction. The psychological aspects of a family tragedy are being analyzed and then choreographed as physical battle between five individuals. How can...

"108 EB – Kammermusik für 4 Motoren & Bedienungspersonal" Excessive machismo and breakneck speed: Four combustion engines are hanging on steel cables; they are throwing flames and producing a diabolical no...

"Love Turn" Anna and Alex are driving through the city. Their audience accompanies them, and so does the ghost of the Russian author Leo Tolstoi. A rakish limousine serves as theatre: the front seats...

"No Comment" Do pictures stand for themselves? Or must they be commented upon, in order to gain meaning? "No Comment" is a TV broadcast which shows pictures from all over the world (also from the Iraq...

"XX with Alice" There is plastic surgery on cable TV, there are women, but also men, who shape their bodies in accordance with current taste. Julie Nioche is tracing these body forms (or formed bodies);...

"M - une piece moyenne" "What should we do next?" Vivaldi’s spring motif, the ringing of a mobile phone, foto stories from magazines, Barbies and Kens, masquerades and soft drinks, sex positions designed t...

"Déroutes" A network of hidden relationships developing on a stage that is bordered by a variety of tubes and inflatable objects. Thirteen dancers, male and female, are encountering each other on an ...

"Pièces" Four short works, merged to form a unity, constitute "pièces". In "8 mn" and its sequel, "12 mn", Monnier excels as a spellbinding solo dancer, in "sursauts" she dances with Bertrand Davy a...

"Publique" Monniers latest group piece "publique" focuses on a public phenomenon: dancing in a club. Here, dance is deconstructed to become a chronology of gestures, common property in a world governed...

Moravia Naranjo "atraída" There are days we find ourselves utterly confused, have no idea whether we are coming or going. On others we are seemingly taking pleasure in a world gone upside down, and ...

"La Mort et le jeune homme" Rachid Ouramdane took Roland Petit’s ballet "Death And The Young Man" as a starting point for his journey through the parallel universes of cyberspace: Search engines were f...

"Tanzgeschichten" A gentle noise caused by the grinding of coffee beans, which soon will spread their flavour all through the theatre. A smallish man, his back rounded by a hump, and a young dancer...

"02.08.04" Free, that is what Raphaëlle Delaunay wanted to be, and so she left the ballet of the Parisian opera, Pina Bausch and the Nederlands Dans Theater, to work with Alain Platel and to pursue ...