"skyhook" “Skyhook” is a production for an alien site. Module 2 in the “love turn” complex. The “skyhook” is an anti-crane – an imaginary hanging device in the firmament. In a figurative sense “skyhoo...

"While We Were Holding It Together" 5 people in somewhat artificial poses, three standing, two draped across the floor. How long will they be able to hold the poses? Well, long. And the living picture...

"Lili Handel" Ivo Dimchev, all-round artist with roots in physical theatre tells the story of the aging diva Lili Handel in an androgynous performance of shocking intensity. The tragedy of her fading...

"Both Sitting Duet" Two middle-aged, very concentrated gentlemen sit on chairs with a score at their feet and make precise music with the upper part of their bodies. Immediately a rhythm sets in, counterpoint...

"The Quiet Dance" After the great success of "Both Sitting Duet" Jonathan Burrows and Matteo Fargion collaborated again in 2005 for the piece "The Quiet Dance", which is exactly what it says it is....

"Speaking Dance" Choreographer Jonathan Burrows and composer Matteo Fargion present the final part of a trilogy of performances, which began in 2002 with ‘Both Sitting Duet’ and continued in 2005 wit...

"La Sisyphe" With "La Sisyphe" the French choreographer Julie Nioche present a re-worked version of the piece "Les Sisyphe", produced in 2003. Three years after the creation she radicalized this project,...

"Nachtflug mit Puppen" with music from Wolfgang Mitterer and Olga Neuwirth play: Christopher Widauer character: Julia Reichert & Kabinetttheater live electronic & dissected piano: Wolfgang Mitterer...

"ARTEMIS, eine" After her well-received works “Zum Landler” and “Ganz die Ihre” and after collaborations with, amongst others, Oleg Soulimenko, Renald Deppe and Bodo Hell the young choreographer Kathari...

"Correspondances" Kettly Noël, a Haitian who lives in Mali, and Nelisiwe Xaba from South Africa correspond. They invented the characters Madame X and Madame Y to celebrate their friendship and to negotiate ...

"Mundry / Cerha/ Gander / Lang" Program: Isabel Mundry: Spiegel Bilder Friedrich Cerha: Deux éclats en reflexion Bernhard Gander: fluc 'n' flex (UA) Klaus Lang: wenn wir in höchsten nöten seyn Klangforum Wi...

"Giacinto Scelsi" Program: Giacinto Scelsi (1905 - 1988) Anahit | Okanagon | Quattro pezzi | Mantram | To the master | Maknogan Emilio Pomarico: musical director Gunde Jäch-Micko: violin Klangforum ...

Theater an der Wien & ImPulsTanz proudly present: June 5, 6 + 8, 2007, 8.00 pm, at the Theater an der Wien The renowned choreographer Alain Platel has vivid memories of the Vespers, the Vespro della...

"Posing Project B - the art of seduction" HONOURED WITH THE GOLDEN LION FOR BEST PERFORMANCE OF THE 5TH INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF CONTEMPORARY DANCE OF VENICE! First presented in 2007 at the Venice...

"Elucidation" Loïc Touzé encountered Luciano Berio’s interpretations 7b and 9b through saxophonist Claude Delangle and experienced a sudden ‘Élucidation’. In a light pink suit Touzé stands by the mu...

"The Ballad of Ricky and Ronny - a pop opera" (preview/work in progress) Maison Dahl Bonnema is the name adopted by the duo Hans Petter Dahl and Anna Sophia Bonnema. These two performing artists have...

"The Case of the Spectator" Does the woman sitting in the television chair reading a murder mystery with her back to the audience cause the terrifying scenes that can be seen, apparently projected live...

"WIN FOR U!" feat. Party Pure Luck! Complete Chance! Big Emotions! Striking Movements! This is a performance lottery by and with two real artists Michikazu Matsune & David Subal! The audience gets...

"It`s not funny" With an all-star band Meg Stuart exhumes the genre of the Hollywood musical though at the moment it is far from dead. She immediately slaughters it again. In the continuation of hair-raising...

"solos and duets" Looking back in time, Meg Stuart developed a special program with works that were made between 1997 and 2001. Meg Stuart, Yukiko Shinozaki and Heine R. Avdal will perform excerpts...

"Blessed" Once again Stuart locates her lonesome heroes in parable-like territory between civilisation and wilderness like Robinson Crusoe on an island with paper mache palms. This abandoned faun is...

"Nine Finger" Verdonck as a physical performer, Ikeda, the Japanese dancer with intensive experience with Rosas and Alain Platel turn to the sites of world catastrophes in order to confront their own...

"Survive Cycle" Choreographer RoseAnne Spradlin investigates breakdowns and transformations in the evening-length, mixed-media work "Survive Cycle." Spradlin collaborates with artists Glen Fogel (film/video),...

"Myth" The Moroccan dancer and choreographer Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui who works in Belgium made a furore with his last works (like e.g. “d’avant” that was shown at ImPulsTanz 2006) of medieval boy bands...

"SCHRITTE VERFOLGEN II - Rekonstruktion und Weitergabe 2007"

"EXIT 2-4-1" Elio Gervasi – holder of the Austrian Dance Production prize – developed a choreographic search for identity for dancer Leonie Wahl. A solo in which movement and language interlock wit...

Filmnight hosted by Wim Vandekeybus Renowned for his cinematic styled choreographies, Vandekeybus hosts a special evening, presenting excerpts of his own filmprojects and selected scenes of films which...

"Sister" Does the title refer to the joint work by Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker with her sister Jolente – for example in 2004 in “Cassandra”? In any case Vincent Dunoyer works up a complex homage to Ro...

"Spiegel" In 1986 a Flemish choreographer by the name of Wim Vandekeybus travelled with a group of young dancers to Madrid for a few months. The result was a new company “Ultima Vez” – the last time ...

"RE-PLAY" In her Slovenian debut the young Italian-Swiss choreographer Yasmine Hugonnet is showing a work for three dancers that orbits the subject of consequences with variations on the theme. The...

"So What!" For the Viennese Akemi Takeya who originally comes from Japan a portrait is: "Face is spirit, is an eye, in inside and out, is black and white, is line and life, is a spiral." The new work...

"Gold" The contradictory images and messages in the videos of R&B icons such as Missy Elliot or Kelis lie somewhere between pornography and female power and are put under the microscope in the first...

"Solo" Ann Liv Young is as wild, sharp and cunning as the body itself when in moments of clarity it becomes aware of the fundamental absurdity of existence. In her new piece "solo" which is, by the...

"D'un soir un jour" It is an energy-charged game of contradictions that turns around appropriation, re-working and reversal. In the process dancing corresponds to the complicated rhythmic shifts of...

"The Role I Should Have Done" A not in the least down and out dancer allows us an in-depth look at his artistic life. Twenty years with William Forsythe – and what is left? Chaos, absurdity and 3427 E...

"Fuck all that shit! We‘ve done our homework and now it‘s enough. The Company Freaks on Tour..." (Uraufführung) Notice: "The air is mild, the sky is clear, in spite a lousy mood it could be a ni...

"As I Was Saying..." At the latest in 1994 with his piece on the subject of AIDS, “Still/Here”, and the scandal provoked by the New York critic Arlene Croce, Bill T. Jones has been regarded as a liv...

„tanzkaraoke*version“ Who knows karaoke for the entire body? So: whole body karaoke means to dance for yourself to the movements of shining fixed stars in the firmament of contemporary choreography and...

"Jours Blancs" In her most recent piece, "Jours Blancs", the Austrian choreographer Saskia Hölbling places her body in a threatening environment that undermines her commonplace gestures with desire, ...

"No Change or 'freedom is a psycho-kinetic skill'" The microphone promised anything but peace. It is the appendix of the sound intestine, a detector, a stylus, a snake's head and an erotic symbol....

"Hell" Ludwig van Beethoven's 5th Symphony and Dante's "Inferno" are beacons lighting the way to hell. At any rate that applies to the unique artistic symbiosis from the Netherlands, Emio Greco and...

"Mixtape" Either it comes straight from the heart or it is almost impossible to say it aloud or write it down: A declaration of love. For all those intoxicated by emotion and words simply fail them,...

"I am... in Concert - A solo for a club" Frans Poelstra and Robert Steijn let it rip. "I am... in Concert - A Solo for a Club" concerns the scrapings in the barrel of show business. Poelstra, a passionate...

"Chunking" Between colourfully-papered walls bizarre figures that might have come from a performance by US artist Mike Kelly under the influence of Franz West crawl, wriggle and strut. In "Chunking",...

"en servicio" It is a project in which the impossible loses its terrors. Because this is the offer made by Belgian Hans Van den Broeck – known from works such as "Almost Dark" and "Lac des Singes" –...

"we failed to hold this reality in mind" Voices from the streets of the Iranian capital Teheran: "Love is alchemy of happiness " Or Love is a permanent scratch on the face of feelings." In "we failed to...

"Apocalypse" A pleasant melody with a little sadness in it comes from the piano. "If I close my eyes," says Ismael Ivo, "I can see Takashi Kako's hands and his whole body dancing. If I close my ears...

"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...

"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” ...