Does a ménage à trois necessarily have to become a trio infernal? When the groundbreaking Austrian artist Arnold Schönberg still composed works in the late Romantic style, he created his first masterpiece, wh...

How can the body be liberated from politically motivated, socio-culturally indoctrinated and aesthetically conditioned hierarchies? And how can connections be formed as a result between people, borne...

Every audience possesses strength, energy and sensitivity. This phenomenon is what Canadian choreographer and dancer Benoît Lachambre examines in detail in this artistic experiment. The intimate piece ...

As a reward for her love, a beautiful woman asks the Greek god for longevity, and Apollo does grant it to Sibylle, as Ovid recounts. But, because she refuses him her love, it is not accompanied by lasting...

Three women beneath the ground, indulging in a cheerful putrefication party, not without jibes at gender stereotypes, and featuring an exquisite soundtrack. Ingeleiv Berstad, Kristin Ryg Helgebostad...

A performance as a picnic, a volunteer assignment and a journey through the Yugoslavian forests of the partisans. Three famous modernist monuments are the starting points for this remarkable, first-rate...

Sixteen Candles (2015) equals music, dance and language play, poetry and projections, birds and colours, striking fabrics and naked feet. Bryana Fritz and Christoffer Schieche have developed the elements...

That was Andy Warhol in the Roaring Sixties: the Exploding Plastic Inevitable (Show). And this is Liquid Loft in our present time: the Imploding Portraits Inevitable (Series). The third instalment – a...

Candy goes museum! In a dialogue with his same-titled performance, Liquid Loft create an installation-like format of Candy’s Camouflage in the museum. Different situation, different gaze – and thus new...

untitled (look, look, come closer) A performance by Christine Gaigg to compositions by Klaus Schedl In cooperation with netzzeit – Festival for New Music Theatre Revival as ImPulsTanz Special 2016 “We hav...

These six people incorporate the rhythm of the French folk dance farandole – and so they get the party started, accompanied by tantalising techno sounds created by Charlie Aubry. BiT sounds like “beat” in Fr...

The Garden of Eden, a paradise, and Hell are neighbours. Or so they are in the triptych Garden of Earthly Delights by the Dutch genius Hieronymus Bosch – a painted cornucopia of riddles, stories and f...

One word suffices and a whole world opens up to the imagination – especially when this word is a one-word poem. This was what the Austrian artist Heinz Gappmayr specialized in. Today the Viennese choreographer W...

Two people get entangled in a loose story about unbridled emotions. Captivating the audience, the man is Peter Jasko, founder of Les Slovaks, the woman is Clara Furey, dancer – with Benoît Lachambre, am...

There is a tent, a lectern, dough, a microphone – and Caribbean-Canadian dancer Dana Michel, who actually wanted to become a sculptor. Plus there is a proliferation of various identities on stage in a...

Choreographer Jérôme Bel and art historian Dorothea von Hantelmann will kick off the workshop series with an encounter based on their long lasting practice in and reflection on dance and visual art. J...

A vivid, sensual sanctuary that takes the form of flowing and ephemeral architecture, thereby creating the Fluid Theatre of Austrian choreographer Georg Blaschke. Permanent movement, undressing and reconfiguration...

Undreamt-of things can happen at the borders of the society of the spectacle. Blood, dance, beauty, striptease, for instance. A camera dances amid all that’s going on – this is Gonzo, as seen in sev...

The cast of Body + Freedom will be hosting audience training sessions at the Leopold Museum. To be informed is to be empowered. Not everyone #wokeuplikethis. Being an audience doesn't have to come natural....

Who is this figure whose projected body is set in a frame? Has it been robbed of its physicality? And how are we to regard its movements in this fluctuating shift of painting, video art and choreography?...

How does a voice awaken, and how can a dancing body be perceived in a completely different way yet again? These are the subjects of two video installations by Austrian-German dancer and choreographer...

This is a stirring dance for all those who believe that “good will triumph in the end”. Founded in 2010, the “Ich bin O.K.” Dance Company from Vienna has already conquered the hearts of their audienc...

B_N focuses on universal stories born of stillness. We, restless protagonists, are their subject matter generating timing, rhythm and content. Showing Duration: 70 min

Ismael Ivo associates the drama on the raft of the Medusa, impressively depicted by the French painter Théodore Géricault in 1819, with the refugees’ overcrowded rubber boats on the Mediterranean sea...

“Where am I going? Can I overcome the limits of rejection? Am I able to heal my inner scars?” These are the burning questions that Ismael Ivo, Brazil-born dancer, choreographer and co-founder of ImP...

When someone has attained the position of bailarín principal despite at times controversial performances, when he is so brilliant in a well-established field that he has to reinvent it, and when the ...

Where has the reputation gone? The city on the Seine as a cultural hotspot for migrants from all over the world and a metropolis of the avant-garde – those days are long gone. Today, Ivo Dimchev as c...

“If healing is a choice then why not make this choice while being in the theatre?” And that is the intention of Ivo Dimchev, this creator of the persona Lili Handel and great collaborator with Austrian art...

Just imagine: Maria Callas, Luciano Pavarotti and opera connoisseur Marcel Prawy are looking down from heaven, watching Ivo Dimchev here on earth when he elevates the art of opera to an Elysium of whose...

Once again, the flaming singer Ivo Dimchev presents together with pianist Dimitar Gorchakov songs from his shows. Definitely not for people with a heart of stone! Duration: 60 min Further performances...

This concert is in a league of its own. At the microphone a man dances on the edge of himself – with a siren-like, seductive, and evidently classically trained voice, beneath a wig that bears unmistakable s...

Let’s explore Europe’s past. Jan Lauwers investigates the genealogical trees of his performers in seven portraits: one of Grace Ellen Barkey’s ancestors was a slave trader, for example, and Hans Pette...

In a „vocal Voodoo“ with the aria „Che farò senza Euridice” the soloist Jule Flierl challenges the historical heritage of Western culture. The opera Orfeo ed Euridice by Christoph Willibald Gluck, p...

“Why does my mother always pay when we go to a restaurant?”, the daughter asks her father. Or: “What are we going to do with the teeth you’re losing?” And: “Are you proud of your daughter?” That’s what a...

In her solo A Kind of Fierce, Greek-French choreographer and outstanding dancer Katharina Andreou plays with audacity. More precisely, the boldness required to make decisions at the spur of a moment,...

Following her phenomenal solo tour de force in Le Sacre du Printemps as a ballet for a single body, Lea Moro again goes into battle with one of the “monsters of the classics”. Gustav Mahler’s Resurrection Symph...

It’s as if an unfamiliar, gentle breeze were passing through the theatre when Linda Blomqvist, Madeleine Lindh and Sandra Lolax perform Cosmos The Beach. Captivating dancing and spirited singing fill a...

What are the lines that divide art and life, fiction and fact or people from around here and from elsewhere? Magdalena Chowaniec, the Polish creator of dances and performances, has already vigorously...

“Don’t know what I want but I know how to get it”, the Sex Pistols sang exactly 40 years ago. Actor Marion Duval and choreographer Marco Berrettini revel in the ecstatic quality of punk because it’s ...

At night, when the children are asleep, the time arrives for the creatures of darkness. They start their dance in a space ruled by the gloomiest of black: an “enlightened absence of light” in a “stillness that ...

A rollercoaster into the depths of dance and life. Together with nine gorgeous dancers and a singer, Swedish choreographer Mårten Spångberg has developed “a spiritual energy drink but with movements, lik...

A one-time-only experiment in dancing, friendship and performance by Meg Stuart and Keith Hennessy. With music by Klaus Janek. improvised performance Duration: 40-60 min Due to production reasons...

What would the bed, probably our most important piece of furniture, be without it? A frame or possibly a plank bed, a bed sheet-covered divan at best. It may sound soft, but it has to be said: every...

Goodbyes can be joyous occasions, but most of the time they are upsetting. Whether cold or passionate, in the hope of seeing one another again or saying farewell – they usually come with strong emotions. A...

Comprising performative, discursive and installation based elements, Choreo-graphic Figures: Body Diagrams unfolds as a six-hour durational Radical Score of Attention, where members of the public are...

Dawn is like an empty page between two chapters of a book. Or a moment of silence when something has begun but nothing yet has happened. Eight students of P.A.R.T.S. are led to enter into such a moment...

New expressions for the information age! Starting form the workshop Critical Joy, where Keith Hennessy and Peaches collaborate for the first time that way, a performance will come into being in close...

Is the search for truth like a bag full of lies? The great German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche certainly came to this conclusion, and dancer/actor Frank Willens turns this into a performative experience....

Firstly, Pieter Ampe has a decent beard. Secondly, an immense energy is bursting inside the Belgian dancer-choreographer. And thirdly, this man is heading towards a deceptive summit of transformations...

What happens when you mash up a musical instrument of the 19th century with a form of dance from the last century and performers of the present? A good question. The only real answer is provided by the...

The fiddle, accordion, double-bass and whip combine to create a lively, rousing atmosphere. The four fetching lads take music, dance oddities and lots of humour with them to the hazardous close-to-nature...

Human and non-human actants camp together on a hot pink terrain under a fluorescent sky and stage an inquiry into some vibrant matters. Supernatural suggests a wilderness that signifies a plurality of...

„It feels relevant after two years of performing Supernatural in multifarious situations: theatres, galleries, chateau gardens and a big ass old casino to expose our vibrant matters in Leopold Museum i...

How are language and communication connected with touch, with chaos and music? In a supremely playful and unconventional manner Sonja Jokiniemi explores the search for words as a process that is at the...

Directed by Inge Kaindlstorfer und Sonja Browne, tight is pouring out experiences and searching for inner space. ENG PENG! Das Himmelreich stems from a inclusive research on the topic, conducted by Georg...

For Treasured in the Dark the excellent dancer and performer Thiago Granato is developing choreography based on different imaginary collaborations - between dead and living choreographers, as well as...

In combination with Tino Sehgal’s mentorship of this year’s danceWEB scholarship programme at the ImPulsTanz Festival, a selection of his work, performed by scholarship recipients, will be shown at the...

Antonia Rosa Mercé y Luque was a principal at the Madrid opera at eleven years of age. But she gave up ballet to study Spanish dance when she was 14 years old. She gained fame under the stage name La ...

Concentrated movement, dreamful sounds, images of perfect equilibrium – Ushio Amagatsu’s company Sankai Juku combines these elements to create utterly sensual art: MEGURI is the group’s latest creat...

This dance of vibration and fusion is framed by texts by Benoît Lachambre and an absolutely magnificent soundtrack of the dancer and musician Eduard Gabia. Two young women and a young man throw themselves ...

Vienna, 2008. After a hot danceWEB summer, New York based choreographer and writer Will Rawls, who has collaborated with the likes of Marina Abramovic or Xavier Le Roy, travels south. And here he discovers...

Man as an unbridled horse in the wild. Snorting with flared nostrils and scraping their hooves, a herd of dancers storms across the stage at a gallop. The glistening bodies head for the edge of the stage...

As the saying attributed to Napoleon clearly states: “All is fair in love and war.” In Shakespeare’s comedy Much Ado About Nothing someone says conspiratorially: “Speak low, if you speak love.” And in th...

Untitled (2014) (Theatre Version) Let’s be honest: is there anything more painful than to find out that the dividing lines one has grown fond of turn out to be increasingly blurred, permeable or possibly e...

Who are these masked figures that move in darkness and appear so confusingly similar? What are they up to and what will happen when they are visited by the audience? The conceptual choreographer Xavier...

It is an emergency signal that is universally understood: S.O.S. is used as a distress signal and a call for rescue. In her astonishing work, the Vienna based Japanese choreographer Akemi Takeya has...

Akemi Takeya sets up a battle between “Actionism” and “Lemonism”; adapts, confronts and re-enacts the strategies of Actionism. Lemonism focuses on the body as material of “the I” including 71 items in...

In 2012, Alix Eynaudi und Mark Lorimer made a stir with their work Monique, turning Bondage practices into choreographic instructions: SM meets action art meets contact improvisation meets les ballets...

Four remarks on the history of dance Endangered Human Movements Vol.1 The performance Four remarks on the history of dance is the first volume of Endangered Human Movements, focusing on human movement...

“The shadow of a country does not leave her body” Currently living in France and Japan, choreographer and performer Ana Rita Teodoro creates a series of tableaux vivants, which serve to bring Portuguese wom...

Austrian Premiere Rêve d’Intestin is part of a collection of dance pieces dedicated to the body orifices called Délirer l’Anatomie. Secrets are unveiled which are usually hidden by our physical const...

A research into Anna Brus by Ana Rita – partner in mind. World premiere International and Vienna based dance and performance artists take a fresh glance on the concept and the ideas of actionism a...

Anne Juren’s recent work Pornography examined the relationship between the pornographic gaze and the mechanisms of representation in theatre. In THE POINT she decentralizes this gaze to generate a c...

Magical, a highly successful collaboration between Anne Juren and Annie Dorsen, uses the canon of feminist performance art and the rituals of a magic show to play with illusion, trickery and transformation....

„She is present but I am here“. Not only since him acting her in Robert Wilsons piece The Life and Death of Marina Abramović, both are somehow linked by a mutual interest. The exceptional Antony Rizz...

Viennese performance artist Barbara Kraus opens up a field of forces in the dark glimmer of a world inbetween. There she gives her unrestricted anarchistic attention to things as well as humans. In the...

Do the hormones need to be tamed, and is the chemistry of desire to be diluted down to harmlessness? On the one hand, there’s porn as a media hype, on the other there are meticulous regimentations w...

A performance by Christine Gaigg to compositions by Klaus Schedl In cooperation with netzzeit – Festival for New Music Theatre “We have been carrying war in our pockets for some time now”, says Chris...

A group intervention, developed on site with and by the members of the same-titled research project. "Everything that wasn't allowed has been done. What is the rebellious moment of today?" The research...

an anarchist manifest of the actionists from the late 1960ies is confronted with the presence of 2015. a speech act examines commitments, ideologies and political fantasies and their potential for conflicts...

Completely new perspectives on the crises of our time are revealed in this, the third step towards an ideal paradise: on three days the installation a second step to IDEAL PARADISE becomes the score...

The title is not a joke: the drummer actually appears later when things really get cooking. First, young men prowl around each other like panthers, they bump each other as quick as a flash, then withdraw,...

Techno – that much was clear from the beginning. And now here’s the club. After the first performance of Universal Dancer last autumn, Doris Uhlich now presents the club version of this solo. There she...

“Is it a discount disco or a pathos-laden fireworks display in homage to Shostakovich?”, the Finnish Music Quarterly asked in its enthusiastic review of Elina Pirinen’s award-winning trio. The Finni...

Elisabeth Tambwe’s installations and performances touch the sore spots of a post-colonial world, the disastrous condition of which she criticises with sharp irony. In Symposion, which combines movement, t...

The overbred European chicken as an allegory for the monstrosity but also the descent of the West. A performative showdown by Elisabeth B. Tambwe. World premiere International and Vienna based dance...

So far, Florentina Holzinger’s and Vincent Riebeek’s pieces have been colourful, sexy and well-padded with pop culture. Once the motto was No applause for shit, then there was Spirit followed by Wel...

What happens when people and objects engage in artistic, performative complicity? To get to the bottom of this question, Lisa Hinterreithner and Jack Hauser explore parts of the Odeon theatre that usually...

In a room splendidly designed by Stephanie Rauch, Ian Kaler examines connections, similarities and thresholds as approaches to movement and to being moved in the second part of his series o.T. together...

With artistic contributions by: Ivo Dimchev Clara Furey Dimos Goudaroulis Ismael Ivo Koffi Kôkô & Achille Acakpo Erwin Piplits Akemi Takeya Laurent Ziegler Please get your free ticket i...

Facebook Theater is an interactive theatrical experiment within the setting of the exhibition My Body is the Event – Viennese Actionsim and International Performance in which the actors articulate a...

You must have a problem and be willing to discuss it in public. This show is a one-on-one session in public that uses the current exhibition as an an interpretive tool to examine a personal or creative...

Inspired by Yvonne Rainer’s legendary Continuous Project – Altered Daily, João Martins uses choreography as a method to examine, activate and transform the relationships between people in this group piec...

What is the difference between intervening on nazi-bourgeois obedience in Vienna in the 1960s when nazi guilt was fresh AND intervening on fascist-bourgeois obedience in Vienna in 2015, when colonial-capitalist...

The dancers of tomorrow show how they can get things moving even today. They are still students at Konservatorium Wien University, but their performances are absolutely professional. Such as, for example,...

Voices of disobedience and refusal (such as from Jean Anouilh’s Antigone and Beckett’s Not I) inhabit the hybrid, restless body of a young man performed by L.A. based performance artist Brian Getnick. Lig...

False Colored Eyes follows the insisting gaze of the „Screen Tests“, a series of film portraits created in 1964-66: numerous celebrities and famous personalities posed for short movie close-ups of the...

A club night honouring the boundless spirit of Marjory Smarth (1969 - 2015) hosted by Archie Burnett (New York) Jef Freedom (New York) Storm (Berlin) appearances by Brahms “Bravo” LaFortune (Ne...

WHAT DO YOU MEAN ... is a concert, a sculptural dance, an everlasting pop song and a stand-up comedy show. Assisted by the Horrible Facts, his “supporting band” made up of six oversized wooden sound box...

It was a long and perilous journey. They have braved a passage which thousands so far, who were also on the run and in search of safety, had to pay for with their life. Initiated by the choreographic...