"[Edge 01]" "[Edge 02]" One of the most radical minimalists of Japanese Butoh dancing a highly sophisticated solo that shows his body in a state of extreme tension and, as movements slow down, in a process...

"[Edge 01]" "[Edge 02]" One of the most radical minimalists of Japanese Butoh dancing a highly sophisticated solo that shows his body in a state of extreme tension and, as movements slow down, in a process...

"Lac des Singes" A slip of the tongue marked the beginning of "Lac deS Singes" ("Monkey Lake"). Belgian choreographer Hans van den Broeck created a turbulent paraphrase of "Swan Lake", which incorporates...

"Still Life N°1" In "Still Life N°1" Canadian choreographer Lynda Gaudreau dissects the human body; she deconstructs the interplay of arms, legs, head and torso on a table-like object which transforms t...

"Still Life N°1" In "Still Life N°1" Canadian choreographer Lynda Gaudreau dissects the human body; she deconstructs the interplay of arms, legs, head and torso on a table-like object which transforms t...

"Disfigure Study" In 1991 "Disfigure Study" introduced the young American choreographer Meg Stuart to a wider audience and marked the beginning of her outstanding career. Since Stuart does not keep a...

"Camouflage" "Camouflage", a contemplative duet by Estonian dancers Merle Saarva and Krööt Jurak, deals with a process of undressing. Yet even stripped off their clothes the bodies remain obscure; they w...

"Under the light, observing" For "Under the Light, observing" Stephen Petronio’s former star dancer blends word, gesture, light (Jean Luc Ducourt) and sound (DJ Olive, Guy Yarden, Pole, Sheila Chandra, F...

"und er ein anderer aus untereinander" Walking, running, falling to the ground, rearing up, dancing, interrupting oneself, continuing, colliding, being entangled, breaking loose: With the help of this...

"Wittingly" The body is full of wit. This is the Estonian dance artist’s basic thesis underlying this short but sparkling work. Mägi dances his own solo and reveals, how a body’s nackedness changes – al...

"We must eat our suckers with the wrappers on" The title is straightforward enough. "We must it our suckers with the wrappers on" is a widespread idiom in the townships of Johannesburg. White South African...

Gala "Soirée Répertoire" Anna Teresa De Keersmaeker’s anniversary piece for the 20th birthday of her company Rosas is a poetic symphony of movement, colours and music. "Soirée Répertoire" unites five ...

Gala "Soirée Répertoire" Anna Teresa De Keersmaeker’s anniversary piece for the 20th birthday of her company Rosas is a poetic symphony of movement, colours and music. "Soirée Répertoire" unites five ...

Gala "Soirée Répertoire" Anna Teresa De Keersmaeker’s anniversary piece for the 20th birthday of her company Rosas is a poetic symphony of movement, colours and music. "Soirée Répertoire" unites five ...

"New Work“ All those cherishing dance improvisation will regard the name Steve Paxton with respect and admiration. A cult figure (though he would resist being called one) and a unique stage personality, t...

"Total Masala Slammer/Heartbreak No 5" Modern dance goes Bollywood! If choreographer Michael Laub borrows the "Werther"-theme of German genius Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and crosses it with Indian soap...

"Total Masala Slammer/Heartbreak No 5" Modern dance goes Bollywood! If choreographer Michael Laub borrows the "Werther"-theme of German genius Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and crosses it with Indian soap...

"Be" A couple caught in a whirlpool of misunderstandings, conflicts, and a cool kind of sadness: Takiko Iwabuchi‘s choreographical gem is gripping, absurd and charged with emotions. Its passion and v...

"Unetso" The moods in "Unetso", one of the timelessly beautiful works by Japanese choreographer Ushio Amagatsu for his company Sankai Juku, are those of meditative composure. Amagatsu’s baldheaded dancers r...

"Unetso" The moods in "Unetso", one of the timelessly beautiful works by Japanese choreographer Ushio Amagatsu for his company Sankai Juku, are those of meditative composure. Amagatsu’s baldheaded d...

"Solos“ The Portuguese choreographer and dancer acting the part of legendary Josephine Baker: Vera Montero’s solo piece "a mysterious Thing, said e.e. cummings" (1996) has become one of the classics of ...

"Giszelle" "Giszelle" quotes the ballet, but also monkeys’ steps, the martial arts, Michael Jackson and club dancing. Le Roy, a molecular biologist by training, who then decided to be a dancer and c...

"Giszelle" "Giszelle" quotes the ballet, but also monkeys’ steps, the martial arts, Michael Jackson and club dancing. Le Roy, a molecular biologist by training, who then decided to be a dancer and choreographer i...

Out of stillness grows motion, breath creating a body within the body. Akemi Takeya, the “Windkartenspielerin (wind card player)” (Helmut Ploebst), is a cosmopolitan Japanese woman working and living in ...

“Half And Nine”: An improvisation of the “table-virtuoso” Vishnu Sahai together with Akram Khan, driven by the rare and complex India “9_-Rhythms”. “Fix” is the title of a solo structured by the corner p...

The initial inspiration for “Rush” comes from the imagined sensation of watching parachutists in “free-fall”, as they descend rapidly through the sky having jumped from an airplane. The tremendous speed s...

“Modul 1+1” is a work without net, no guideline, no topic, no story. Two women only, who pause, feel, listen; it’s rather a groping, a searching, a trying coming from inside, a creating from moment to mo...

It is a rarity in the ethereal art form of dance to still see “Fase” with the original dancers, De Keersmaeker herself and Michèle Anne de Mey. This duet of four parts, described by the renowned Fren...

Pure dance and clear sounds whirl, rush, patter – like the relief rain provides after a long period of heat and drought – into calmly moulding blue light: “Rain”, the new piece by Anne Teresa De Keer...

Like “Just Before” and “Drumming” (of the same name as Steve Reich’s sound whirl), the choreography is heavily influenced by the theatre a dense yet light composition of movement in which the mathemati...

Born in Soweto, Boyzie grew up in the township of Johannesburg, South Africa. For him, dance delineates the path of dignity and nobleness to which every human being apires. “Rona” is a se-Seho word mea...

Body images set up like snapshots, at times comical, at times irritating. A body is a fleece of skin around a mass of flesh. It is a rump, a head, two legs, two arms, 10 toes, 10 fingers. This is the...

The collection, presented on a small revolving stage, resembles a gallery of curios. Costumes, boots, makes and fabric swabs disguise the models as hybrid characters. They appear in astonishing metamorphosis...

“’Le sacre du printemps’ (Strawinsky/Nijinksy/Röhrich) displays the routine of pagan sacrifice rite. Now we could have hinted on all kinds of possible sacrifices in our choreography, where people challe...

Bodies ornamentally entwined together, rapid fragmented rhythm, a fantasia of colour backdrop, female figures in often provocative and erotic poses and demonstrating mythological rituals shape the work...

Dance and body movement create an unspeakable language. How are we to interpret such a mode of expression? This question guides the choreographer Willi Dorner from his previous year’s project “back to ...

Eight good looking gentlemen, all perfectly mannered and dressed. They are business people and –men. In “Le coq est mort” the Senegalese dancers mime masculine group behaviour, male games, codes and h...

You know them all, those talk shows. Arnold Schwarzenegger at Jay Leno’s, Nadja Auermann sings with Stefan Raab. A witty, entertaining structure with star factor. Here comes David Zambrano, an interviewer a...

For fractions of a second, lightening engulfs the stage in a harsh light. Hardly noticeable, the shape of a human body reveals itself from the distance. A second flash and a third confirm – it is the m...

“Conjunto die Nero” is what Emio Greco and Pieter C. Scholten call the third of their most recent work series “Double Points”. At the beginning of this performance, a heavy darkness is hanging over a ...

From the lascivious music of the Velvet Underground to the punk mix of Tricky, CAN, Stockhausen and Sonic Youth, director and choreographer Grace Ellen Barkey of Indonesia brings the original satire...

Beside its close co-operation with the Flemish choreographer, Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, ICTUS, an ensemble of contemporary music, is invited to perform at the most important European concert halls...

Look through me! Look inside me! The title itself invites us to see ourselves as x-ray machines. The eye of the theatre spectator becomes a radiation canon, his/her look a weapon – searching, threatening a...

The world of the ladies-in-waiting is a prison. The combination of tedious manual labour, personal isolation and sexual frustration only breeds to incestuous relationship. The Japanese director Yoshi...

His choreographic theatre bears masterpieces, which are shaped, carved and forged out of massive/-bulky visual symbols. The native of Carinthia, Johann Kresnik, still revolutionary and ruthless critic...

Kresnik paints a powerful portrait of “Goya” on a somber stage: a “femme fatale” in red high heels, men with axes, a protagonist portrayed by five different dancers, a cross between a gas guzzling plastic...

Even the smallest movement in the swiftest second demands the highest precision. Ko Murobushi, one of the most radical minimalist in the Japanese Buto Dance, presents the world premiere of his new performance...

Is there anybody still asking questions? Could you invent yourself? Does anybody know where you came from or what history you have? Are you you and me me? “Untitle Me” explores the freedom one has whe...

Summer, sun, wit and wishes. A boisterous little group of young people amusing themselves in a tapestry fantasy landscape. Small offenses and shows of vanity add to the fun in Mark Tompkins’ choreography o...

A first artistic approach to Merce Cunningham is Mathilde Monniers “Signé” (signature): a short hyper intensive piece, that was premiered at tanz2000.at. Now the French choreographer has an expanded vers...

He thinks of himself, the place where he is, the present moment. He thinks as well of himself in the future, the place where he wants to be. At some point he realizes that what is in-between is probably...

A woman, a bathtub, a towel, music by Satie. Susanne Linke circles the bathtub, lets her towel glide over the enamel. She disappears and comes back as a dream figure. During the solo “Im Bade Wannen” (ba...

In his new programme Thomas Hauert is constructing a dense net of motion, voice and music. Statements – songs that he is singing into a micro like a popstar are being undermined ironically with dance t...

Vishnu Sahai is one of the most highly demanded table players of our times. The blending of contemporary western with classic-indian techniques are characteristic for the descendant of Panidt Ram Sahai...

  Events for Television (again) venue: Sofiensäle II dates: Jul 30, 2000, 21:00 Aug 01, 2000, 21:00   Affects venue: Sofiensäle I dates: Jul 31, 2000, 21:00

  venue: Soefiensäle I dates: Aug 04, 2000, 21:00 Aug 05, 2000, 22:00

  venue: Sofiensäle II – Blauer Salon dates: Aug 12, 2000, 21:00 Aug 12, 2000, 22:30 Aug 13, 2000, 21:00 Aug 13, 2000, 22:30

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  venue: Sofiensäle II dates: Aug 03, 2000, 21:00 Aug 05, 2000, 21:00

  venue: Sofiensäle I dates: Jul 23, 2000, 19:00

The Vertiginous Thrill of Exactitude by William Forsythe Woundwork 1 by William Forsythe Concerto Barocco by George Balanchine Capriccio by George Balanchine   venue: Staatsoper dates: Jul...

  venue: Volkstheater dates: Aug 02, 2000, 21:00

  venue: Volkstheater dates: Aug 08, 2000, 21:00 Aug 10, 2000, 21:00

  venue: Volkstheater dates: Aug 11, 2000, 21:00

  venue: Sofiensäle I dates: Aug 07, 2000, 21:00 Aug 09, 2000, 21:00

  venue: Sofiensäle II dates: Aug 03, 2000, 21:00 Aug 05, 2000, 21:00

  venue: Emballagenhallen dates: Jul 14, 2000, 21:00 Jul 15, 2000, 21:00 Jul 16, 2000, 21:00 Jul 18, 2000, 21:00 Jul 19, 2000, 21:00

  Summerspace, Biped venue: Volkstheater dates: Jul 25, 2000, 21:00   Windows, Biped venue: Volkstheater dates: Jul 27, 2000, 21:00   Event, Rainforest venue: Volkstheater dates: Jul...

  venue: Sofiensäle II dates: Jul 17, 2000, 21:00 Jul 19, 2000, 21:00

  venue: Burgtheater dates: Jul 13, 2000, 20:30 Jul 15, 2000, 20:30

  venue: Sofiensäle I dates: Jul 26, 2000, 21:00 Jul 28, 2000, 21:00

For Christine Gaigg “one plus one” is more than two. In her new creation the promising Austrian choreographer is analysing the energetic field between the two polarities generating love, desire, sex...

“I follow the spores of my heart. Anything is possible, nothing is impossible.” Jan Fabre In Wim Vandekeybus’ monologue Fabre displays the body that „refuses to be used“. The combination of Fabre ...

Inspired by the poems of Oktavio Paz, Josef Nadj created a piece for two dancers (himself and a female dancer) and the Russian percussionist Vladimir Tarasov. In “Les temps du repli” a poetical connection is ...

The bold, avant-garde works choreographed by Marie Chouinard during her solo period both shocked and delighted audiences around the world. “Les Solos 1978–1998”, performed by the dancers of her compa...

Always hunting for the genuine and the inexpressible, the astonishing choreographer Marie Chouinard develops her first solo for a male dancer. Each gesture becomes a dance of thought anchored to the...

Always hunting for the genuine and the inexpressible, the astonishing choreographer Marie Chouinard develops her first solo for a male dancer. Each gesture becomes a dance of thought anchored to the...

“Les lieux de là” is a piece of conflict. The choreographer makes us sharing her vision of another community. Community where communication is certainly difficult, but not impossible to achieve. A pi...

The short pieces, all choreographed by the dancers themselves, are driven by a special ease, disregarding a specific meaning or idea, but in a common artistic vision of the relation between dance and...

“MAZY” has developed out of Willi Dorner’s captivating duet for two male dancers, “interwining”. His new creation is inspired by the work of French philosopher M. Merleau-Ponty and deals with the relat...

Elizabeth Corbett, former soloist of the Frankfurt Ballett, dances an outstanding selection of solos and duets with and by choreographers such as William Forsythe, Amanda Miller, Michael Schumacher and...

It started with “Bianoc”, then came “Rosso”. The third step could only be “Extra Dry”, the compelling closing piece of the trilogy “Fra Ceverllo e Movimento”. As the title indicates, these humorous,...

A poetical homage to the legendary foundling Kaspar Hauser and all those, whose innocence was broken by an authoritarian regime. With this multi-media piece Francois Verret offers a humorous plea for...

With Burrows, the dance vocabulary is rarely the point. Along with the Judson Church pioneers he shares the view that movement does not represent anything other than itself. He is purging dance drama...

Inspired by his film “The Man Who Never Was”, which was awarded the prestigious Prix Italia 1998, Jorma Uotinen, director of the Finnish National Ballet, created a strikingly visual solo about the tra...

Salt – what is left when the sea is gone. “Salt” is a cascading series of lyrical and intense pas de deux, of choreographic phrases and sequences unfolding at the speed of thought, purposely disorienting our p...

In “Still Life N°1” the worlds of anatomy and painting are superimposed. The body as flesh an das raw material is deconstructed, disjoined, framed, x-rayed almost, and presented on the stage in it’s...

The first meeting of the two “grand dames” of the German Tanztheater after 20 years gives birth to a vibrant piece of dance history in the reticule of the present between reflected memories and new beg...

“In Spite of Wishing and Wanting” – a performance that nearly materializes the primary, overwhelming and alarming power of life. David Byrne’s composition generates a new quality, a new energy of move...

“Watching Valli, I am not sure, if great sculpture is a human body made for eternity in stone, or if it is the body which becomes a work of art – a living statue in an harmonious flow of plastic vis...

Once again Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, the innovative Flemish choreographer, challenges borderlines and enters new territory with the fantastic “Just Before”. Eleven dancers searching for lost time, acc...

Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker has already used the first part of “Drumming” for “Just Before”. Reich’s work inspired her so much that she decided spontaneously to create a choreography to its full, 70-...

Its magnificent images turn this full-length programme by William Forsythe into one oft he most important works of modern ballet. Time and space are widened and we look fascinated through the frozen...

  venue: Sofiensäle dates: Aug 02, 1998, 21:00   In the frame of „These – Antithese“ Performances by Austrian choreographers Kurated by Helmut Ploebst Outstanding works from the fi...

In his latest work Lin Hwai-min, the founder of Cloud Gate Dance Theater, describes the traumatic history of his home Taiwan; with meagre, clear images he tells the history of is people, who, after years...

“vodka konkav” by renowned Frankfurt-based performance artist Helena Waldmann is like a kaleidoscope which intoxicates the audience. The theatre appears like a virtual space. The dancers’ bodies seem ...

“’Paradis’ pays tribute to those who sparkle even in hell.” With a combination of classical and African, Hip-hop and contemporary dance ten highly talented dancers stage an exciting spectacle, a celeb...

Withing a grotesque atmosphere full of subtle kitsch and intelligent creativity the fierce battle between “instinct” and “intellect” is lead with relish. The internationally renowned choreographer Angelin...

A unique dance language and the rhythms of African drums are the most important features of their works; In 1996 Seydou Boro and Salia Sanon have already captured the hearts of the Viennese audience,...

  venue: Sofiensäle dates: Jul 20, 1998, 21:00   In the frame of „These – Antithese“ Performances by Austrian choreographers Kurated by Helmut Ploebst Outstanding works from the fi...