"Tempus Fugit" Time flies, carried by a wind of irretrievable moments heaping up innumerable layers of events, thus enclosing manifold traces of both past and current societies. In his latest piece...

"Public Property" Who owns the stage, who the figure on stage, who rules the body? Does the dancer belong to the audience, the state, the foundation, the company funding the project? Is she her own...

"BIG – 1st episode (reality show/artificial intelligence)" "BIG – 2nd episode (show/business)” BIG is the dazzling life as presented via the various channels of pop media - larger than life, sexy ...

"BIG – 1st episode (reality show/artificial intelligence)" "BIG – 2nd episode (show/business)” BIG is the dazzling life as presented via the various channels of pop media - larger than life, sexy ...

"Report On Giving Birth” In 1994 the choreographer Wen Hui founded the only independent dance company in China so far. Ever since she has pursued her ambitious and radical objective: to reflect contemporary C...

"Report On Body” Wen Hui’s Living Dance Studio is known for its highly personal, yet also documentary approach towards Chinese society. Based on individual biographies and with the help of many int...

Blush Ten persons, men and women, are chattering and screaming. A party resembling an all too ardously civilized bestiarum. Scenes that could make spectators blush, turbid dreams, hot fantasies, theatre,...

"Sonic Boom" In the heat of the night there are some people assembling at a deserted wharf: They will love each other, yet above all they will hit each other - and one of them is actually cutting his...

Calmly a naked man is standing beneath strip lights, is clogging his genitals, is putting on seven underpants. Now his looks are touching, like those of a big, freshly swaddled baby. With dandy like voice...

A high wall divides the stage into two parts. On the right side a woman, on the left a man. Video projections on the backside of each half. The two cannot see each other, but from time to time videos show,...

Two pretty young women in beautiful white wedding dresses plant themselves in front of the audience and proclaim: What follows is a treatise on the word „performance“. Subsequently they present themselves as ...

It is neither theatre, nor dance or television. Yet there is a stage and there is choreography, and it is transmitted via monitor. Fact is: „héatre-élévision“ is another masterpiece by Boris Charmatz. Extrem...

Aatt! Enen! Tionon! Three stage platforms. Aa! Chch! Tungung! Three dancers in T-shirts on three platforms which are assembled to form a layered, blocklike, five meters high sculpture. They are young and...

Six young women form a circle, lurk for each other, start a merciless battle, fall to the ground as if hit by lightning, crook and open their mouths for silent screams. „Haru no saiten“, a „spring sacri...

Christoph Winkler, young shooting star of German contemporary ballet, makes the live stories of two exquisite ballerinas, Margaret Illmann and Bettina Thiel, his starting point for an extraordinary piece:...

The performers are sitting upright along a table. There is raging music. A woman tilts forward and creeps over the table, a man drinks hastily, spills water onto the creeping woman’s face, dives down u...

„Sometimes it is useful to see an organism, even man, as a self-preserving mechanism“, claims biologist S. Anthony Barnett. „Regulation depends on change, especially change in behaviour. What is more,...

Saskia Hölbling, Austrian body composer and popular young choreographer, presents a new and exciting solo piece. With „exposition corps“ she continues her intense analysis of „the subjectivity of the bo...

The body as an orphan left behind, the end of the quest for harmony and consensus and the fragmentation of the body – Emio Greco and Pieter C. Scholten entwine these dramatic meatphors in their newest g...

A live wire, rebellious character, fanatic and passionate dancer: This is Bertha Bermudez Pascual, a tall, dark-skinned Spaniard who reflects upon her dance biography in Emio Greco’s and Pieter C. Scholten’s „Do...

A Hammond organ, a laptop, impressive Lesley loudspeakers, a man and a woman. And a memorial for the first computer that came to Iceland in 1964, a device of the type IBM 1401. Choreographer and dancer...

Accompanied by Steve Reich’s pulsating music, the Afro-Brasilian dancer’s mighty body frees itself from a narrow, wet and hot glass shaft and dives into a field of callae. This fleshy flower’s elegant bloom...

Jonathan Burrows, former solo dancer of the London Royal Ballet who defected to experimental dance, has, after theatre person Jan Ritsema, found another extraordinary dance partner: the Italian composer...

A painter and a sculptor who took their lives. An artist who went to Rome to destroy a piece of art with his hammer. A poet who wrote: „God, I know, you never saved anyone/ Yet I fear for me you will m...

Ivana Gottliebová has already been living for 78 years. A small lady with grey hair, a former circus artist, journalist and waitress. Choreographer Kristyna Lhotáková, 33 years her junior, is dancing a ...

Legs executing a raving pizzicato, arms scourging through the air, hands humming like insects: The ballerinas in „Amelia“, the new piece by Canadian star choreographer Édouard Lock, are wrapped in blac...

What’s the cost of life? Especially for those who are standing apart, who are neither particularly trendy nor telegenic? The English DV8 Physical Theatre and its choreographer Lloyd Newson are famous f...

Applause sets in. The artist bows in front of an invisible audience. The – fictitious – show has come to an end, and „Show and Dance“, a play about the mysterious offstage world, begins. Mark Tompkins, most in...

Three women never turning around. Yet through the eye-sockets of old men they keep throwing dull looks at us. „Manual Focus“, a trio by P.A.R.T.S. student Mette Ingvartsen, creates monsters. A twelve-legged cre...

An evening in three parts by Milli Bitterli. The Austrian dancer and choreographer who does surprise us with every new piece, presents two solo pieces taken from her successful production „In bester G...

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 by the s...

Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker’s choreographies are reinforced by her unique musicality, which comprises classical music as well as minimalism and jazz. With her brandnew piece „Bitches Brew/Tacoma Narrows“ the c...

Working, editing, reworking, developing – these are premises of the huge dance project which Elio Gervasi, Austrian choreographer of Italian origin, has been conducting since last autumn. Successful l...

A dance dealing with the macabre geometry of war? Christoph Winkler created just that: Based on the absolutistic aspiration for a „beautiful war“, which followed the terrible slaughtering of the thirty yea...

A cosy nightclub. A woman the size of a two year old is dancing in tutu and toe shoes. An elderly man is throwing tomatoes at a tall blonde beauty. The same man will soon be admiring and caressing the...

Video as a window allowing glimpses on the media world behind the real world. Old movies, countdown numbers, a close-up of feet preparing for a dance: In „48 Almost Love Lyrics“ London choreographer and...

Ten persons, men and women, are chattering and screaming. A party resembling an all too ardously civilized bestiarum. Scenes that could make spectators blush, turbid dreams, hot fantasies, theatre, dance...

"Kaash" Just like Bengal lights 28-year-old choreographer Akram Khan radiates the world of contemporary dance; his refined, lyric pieces have already been awarded numerous prizes. For his new work "Kaash"...

"Judy was angry" Judy Garland tells the story of her life. In her anger the actress, the object of desire, talks herself hoarse – with a broken voice, for hours on end. "Judy was angry" is the second p...

"Mirth" The dancers are forming geometrical patterns within space, are being chased by frantic video projections, lose and regain control. "Mirth" by German choreographer Arco Renz is loaded with suspense;...

"Mpirahalahy Mianala" A man hanging head first from a wooden rack, holding a woman in his arms. The rack is bed as well as door or bus or raft.Travellers take the bus for a trip to the unknown, and on...

"Wer will kann kommen" Barbara Kraus is herself. First and foremost. The performer, the actress, the dancer, the seductress, the fighter, the feminist. Yet in "Wer will kann kommen" (Come if you want)...

"Not to Know" The two Canadian choreographers’new improvisation project, created in collaboration with stage designer Nadia Lauro, light designer Jean Jauvin and some of the most interesting improvisers i...

"Vivisector" An experiment combining dance and projection techniques, thus examining the possibilities for a digital decomposition of movement. Video and sound artist Klaus Obermaier and dancer and choreographer...

"Black Spring“ Toulouse-based African choreographer Heddy Maalem goes back to the very heart of his native continent, presenting an eerily beautiful, shocking collision of grandeur and misery, and providing a...

"not at all" In "Not at all", the newest work by Viennese choreographer Willi Dorner, the actors function as symbolic derivates of a cynical video game world that streamlines the body and reduces it to...

"other feature" The naked bodies of four female dancers, turning their backs on the audience. A look on a body’s surface turns into a vision of its internal universe … Young Austrian choreographer Sas...

"The Show Must Go On!" "Jérôme Bel" "Nom donné par l’auteur" Passion, drama, decline, and survival, this is, what film and stage are made of. The show must go on. Since the mid-90s French choreographer Jérô...

"The Show Must Go On!" "Jérôme Bel" "Nom donné par l’auteur" Passion, drama, decline, and survival, this is, what film and stage are made of. The show must go on. Since the mid-90s French choreographer Jérô...

"The Show Must Go On!" "Jérôme Bel" "Nom donné par l’auteur" Passion, drama, decline, and survival, this is, what film and stage are made of. The show must go on. Since the mid-90s French choreographer Jérô...

"Blackbird" Trapped! The dancer’s arms, head and shoulders are caught in an elastic tube extending to the unknown above. A voice can be heard from there. A formidable manipulator is at work, so it seems, u...

"Weak Dance Strong Questions“ How does a "weak dance" become a "strong play"? The answer to this question is provided by an unlike couple: Jonathan Burrows, ex-soloist of the Royal Ballet London, a...

"[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...