Tickets for selected productions at Burgtheater and Volkstheater are now available. The pre-sale for the entire programme starts on 12 June.

All 51 productions by 47 artists and companies can now be found online. The pre-sale for the entire programme starts on 12 June. CALENDARSERVICE

ImPulsTanz brings notable productions and audience favourites from past festivals back to the stage. From groundbreaking pieces that once set new trends in contemporary dance, e.g. Jérôme Bel’s Jérôme Bel o...

ImPulsTanz has been promoting the dialogue between choreography, dance and the visual arts since 2013. To this end, collaborations have been initiated with organisations such as mumok – Museum moderner K...

Young Choreographers’ Series As part of the [8:tension] series, ImPulsTanz has been offering the opportunity to get to know a new generation of choreographers from all over the world and their work since 2...

HIGHLIGHTS Each year, ImPulsTanz presents an exceptionally packed programme of more than 60 productions by international and Austrian artists and companies in theatres and museums in Vienna. All 51 productions...

Eight acrobatic dancers, a stable wall and experimental rock music from the British band This Heat: that’s it. From this, the Brussels-based dance shooting star Alexander Vantournhout conjures up a ut...

Don’t be surprised when a cowboy rides past on a plastic chicken and starts “shooting” with his trash picker, and the upsetting earworm Y.M.C.A. makes a brief auditory appearance. Because this subversive proce...

At first glance, it seems as if the two figures were inviting you to a historical costume ball: Frédéric Gies enters in rich yellow, Anne Juren in dreamy pale blue. However, the two passionate dancers, c...

This lecture performance is truly one of a kind. One of the most influential choreographers of our time appears live in front of an audience 44 years after her first piece (Asch), providing insights into...

“Do we still have four seasons?”, Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker wonders in view of the current changes in climate. Together with her Moroccan co-choreographer Radouan Mriziga, she bases her reflections on ...

Since Plato, the term Khôra (Ancient Greek: “place, area, land, space”) has been an ephemeral one, thinkers from Aristotle to Derrida to Heidegger to Kristeva not so much nailing down a proper definition than...

A small platform, shoes, microphones and idiosyncratic sounds are part of a ritual that dancer-choreographer François Chaignaud and musician Aymeric Hainaux have decided to develop together. Actions and ...

At a time when we have come accustomed to encounter images and people, history as well as the banal, simply as fleeting parts of a continuous downstream, Camilla Schielin points to the flip side of this...

If the title of Christine Gaigg’s group work polymono had taken “a more aggressive form”, it could have been called: Smash Mononormativity. But the Viennese choreographer, director and writer is not tr...

Boundlessness is a feeling, and it’s what Clara Furey wants to stimulate. The Canadian dancer, choreographer, musician and actor takes her audience to spheres of cosmic eroticism. In her new piece, the f...

Here comes HAMLET! Following worldwide successes with reinterpretations of Romeo and Juliet, Carmen, Swan Lake, Giselle and, most recently celebrated at Volkstheater, THE SACRIFICE, Dada Masilo presents...

“A silent rebellion that takes its time”: in her three-hour durational performance MIKE, Dana Michel, winner of the Silver Lion at the 2017 Venice Biennale, carefully approaches the subject of labour, on ...

Davi Pontes and Wallace Ferreira are standing naked in front of the audience and propose an alternative to the structural and political violence that seems to have become a persistent presence in Rio de...

At this year’s festival, the ImPulsTanz – Young Choreographers’ 2022 Award winning piece Repertorio N2 can be seen once again, as well as its sequel, Repertório N3, which premiered at the 35th Bienal...

What is there to discover beneath surfaces – in the ground, for example, but also in dance? New York choreographer DD Dorvillier had a dream. In it, while she was working on a project called Landscape S...

Unity in dissonance – Deva Schubert takes up an ancient tradition that, across cultures, has predominantly been practiced by women: the work of grieving and lamenting. With the tool of the “glitch” – the...

After 2010, choreographer and filmmaker Eszter Salamon will return to John Cage's groundbreaking Lecture on Nothing (1949), a piece that played a decidedly liberating role not only for the performance...

Eszter Salamon’s works are explorations of systems of power and how bodies act as their extensions and historical carriers. At the same time, she recognises the potential and capacity of dance to renegotiate s...

On 10 August at 16:00, the parti- cipants and their teachers present excerpts of their newly learned skills. An atmospherically exuberant finale after four weeks of intensive dancing!

Dancers of every style, level and age are invited to battle for the grand prize – a residency at ImPulsTanz 2025. The challenge is not only to outsmart the other participants through skills, sophistication, w...

“If you’re ever in trouble / I’ll be there on the double”, sings Marvin Gaye into the emptiness. An intimate but eerie duet between a living and a lifeless body, between Georges Labbat and his doppelg...

Usually, Geumhyung Jeong’s works could be called a very finely tuned, occasionally disconcerting puppeteering. In her retrospective at ImPulsTanz 2022, her body again and again formed unpredictable assemblages w...

The [8:tension] Young Choreographers will not only show their great works – they are guests at the festival in a 14-day artistic residency. The [8:tension] artists are also nominated for the prestigious I...

Rathaus – Arkadenhof, from 21:00 Uche Yara live Wandl live Ivo Dimchev live Peeps UCHE YARA Since making her striking debut last year, twenty-one year old Austrian singer-songwriter UCHE YARA has pro...

Rathaus – Arkadenhof, from 21:00 Nyege Nyege Showcase feat. Phelimuncasi live Catu Diosis hybrid set Authentically Plastic DJ set R3IGN DROPS PHELIMUNCASI Phelimuncasi formed in 2012 in the Umlazi township of Du...

A celebration of the life and work of Janet Panetta. A true New Yorker, Steeple Chase Queen of Coney Island, American Ballet Theater Ballerina, contemporary choreographer, and fierce teaching artist. “It’s jus...

Few artists are as closely connected with ImPulsTanz as Ivo Dimchev. For many years, he has captivated the festival’s audiences with his incomparably beautiful voice and the melancholic-but-dirty lyrics t...

“I’m going back to Saturn where the rings all glow / Rainbow moonbeams and orange snow…” Bessie Awardwinner j. bouey and co-performer/DJ Tyrone Bevans host a cosmic and electrifying meeting, consisting of musi...

This is what iconic works such as Nelken by Pina Bausch, Loïe Fuller’s Danse serpentine and Isadora Duncan’s Water Study have in common: they present dances inspired by non-humans. Dance conceptualist Jérôme Bel...

“A score that can function only through utterly committing to the delusion”: that is Jette Loona Hermanis’ FrostBite. A seemingly convoluted, nuclear world of winter, populated by polyclay works of ar...

Our everyday lives are like a jungle sometimes, where everybody has to fight for survival in their own way. KIM Sungyong, Artistic Director of the Korea National Contemporary Dance Company in Seoul since ...

Everybody’s fired up! The oeuvre of American composer Lucia Długoszewski is currently being rediscovered. The keen-to-experiment artist was born to Polish immigrants and worked with New York choreographer an...

Moderated by Kurier editor Werner Rosenberger, there will be an exclusive KURIER talk about the production 3S by choreograph Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui at Volkstheater – in the presence of Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui and festiv...

Only recently, they were “lost in freaky evolution” or demonstrated what it means to live in “funny eternity” – now the dancers of Liquid Loft are plunging into an adventure with the terrifying Medea. In...

It isn’t long ago that queer people had to (and, in many places, still have to) expose themselves to possible violence from the police and fellow citizens, simply to get what everybody wants: affection, u...

This piece is about connections between choreographic approaches and human relationships – with the dancers in harmony with each other or in repetition. This is why accomplished movement composer Lucy G...

Off into the hotly contested place of worship that is the bullring! The atmosphere of a corrida: a snorting bull, a dashing fighter with cloth and sword, the passion of the audience. The mood during El...

Krump is both a way of life and a form of expression with an almost spiritual dimension to it. With their special style of movement, krump dancers turn their internalised anger outward to channel it. Silent...

A light shines out of the darkness, a dancer moves in the light, and images light up along with the figure. Physical sources and their “digital descendants” form the backbone of a carefully crafted pie...

Everything that happens runs through our fingers. Time leaves nothing as it was: this is what has always called its power to mind for humans. In this world premiere of Japanese artist and performer Michikazu...

“How long she has been there, defying decomposition, nobody knows.” Netti Nüganen, known to ImPulsTanz audiences as part of the crew of Florentina Holzinger’s celebrated performative excesses Apollon and TA...

A Seattle-based performance group that undermines the limits of rationality returns to Vienna to finish what was started here: the Eine moderne Geschichte in anhaltender Gegenwart trilogy. Following the...

How to represent the acute general overwhelmedness in view of everything that currently threatens, burns or goes wrong? Viennese choreographer Saskia Hölbling dares to try with this trio. She traces the ...

It takes a lot of courage and confidence to tackle the crises of our time. It is precisely these qualities that the Belgian choreographer of Moroccan descent, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, tries to bolster. To...

Is technology “a bitch”? Or, more generally, a dog? Contemporary dancer Silke “Silk” Grabinger spends three times 150 minutes in an installation with the (in)famous robot dog model “Spot” from Boston Dyna...

It was only at last year’s festival that Soa Ratsifandrihana took the Volkstheater stage for the great Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, showing off both her technical precision and electrifying presence in Fase, Fo...

“In the brutal light of day, I’d never achieve this heavenly nakedness”, writes French author Hélène Cixous. In FROM THE THROAT TO THE DAWN, Sorour Darabi, too, explores the night as a space of refug...

A joint work about friendship and the traces of two lives. First, Stéphane Peeps Moun dances his Last Dance, accompanied by a sound web by music producer rRoxymore who embeds intimate voice-over by P...

In light of recent events, this year’s symposium is dedicated to the practice of hospitality, which is considered key to relational knowledge-making. Touching – a necessarily intuitive technology – is fe...

He disguises himself as a servant or acts like a master, he is Beelzebub and an angel all rolled into one. This performative farce pays tribute to the harlequin, showing him the recognition he deserves....

Trajal Harrell is known for his interventions into already written stories and histories – be it the imaginary meeting between the Judson Church postmodernists and the Harlem ballroom scene in (M)imosa, o...

What if, in 1963, the no-to-spectacle postmodernists of the Judson Church were confronted with members of the Harlem voguing scene, their love of glam and big entrances? The name of this odd couple’s c...

It all starts with a ritual on a glamorously decorated stage bathed in bright blue light. Together with 70+-year-old choreography legend Ishmael Houston-Jones, Snowflake Calvert – an artist with indigenous Y...

The Irmãs Brasil (“Brasilian sisters”) “want to be targeted by life and give their testimony”. To this end, in Eunuchs, they embody “the castrated”, who, in various cultures, have either been ostracised o...

Reality blurs with fiction on a sea voyage from Europe to Martinique. “We use the Ship of Fools”, William Kentridge reveals, as a way to “allow questions to bubble and find answers”. For his new stage w...

“Let us take words that don’t make sense, showing us the impossibility of language to expose its limits.” This is how renowned artist William Kentridge explains the motivation behind Dadaist sound poems...

Israel Galván, the best flamenco dancer in the world, turns into a mythical seer. And Wim Vandekeybus, one of the most influential dancemakers of our time, resurrects an ancient family of gods. People ...

The teachers who are already in town present themselves and their workshops – in words, but above all, in motion – on 14 July at 15:00. A first glimpse into the extensive workshop programme!

In her choreographies, Xenia Koghilaki looks for a “radical aliveness” usually reserved for punk concerts. But the fact that even this ritual of supposed total anarchy foots on “invisible solidarity rules...

The daughter of a war photographer explores her father’s archive. Belgian photo artist Daniel Demoustier has filmed conflicts and disasters in around 100 countries including Afghanistan, Lebanon, Haiti, L...

Brightly shining above Akemi Takeya’s artistic world is the lemon. Under the title Lemonism, the artist has developed a series of works in this light since 2015. Here, with her new solo performed in Ada...

There is no need to pimp the reality of the body because it is beautiful, exciting and fascinating enough as it is. Especially in dance. Alexander Vantournhout, one of the most sought-after Belgian choreographers...

Major issues like migration and divisions in society are on Kristina and Sadé Alleyne’s minds, too. They are, among other things, two of the most renowned and most popular teachers at the ImPulsTanz wo...

How does the dance of moss appear? How do our bones and flesh tap into this dance? And on which planes is the bodily happening? MOSSBELLY is emerging from long-term, deep encounters with moss. A choreography o...

You often hear that dance is a universal language. But what does it really mean to communicate through dance? How much of both our cultural and individual history remains when words fail and the body ...

The two of them have very different artistic approaches, but in their thinking and in the passion they feel for dance, they are very similar. Both Anne Juren and Frédéric Gies started dancing in France a...

“I am alone but inhabited”, we read at the beginning of Anne Lise Le Gac’s “radical blend” La Caresse du Coma ft. YOLO. For 45 days the performance artist has been sitting in a Croatian four-star spa, search...

Two women in white sneakers and dresses dance with breathtaking precision. Fase was Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker’s breakthrough as a choreographer. The four-part early masterpiece remains intact after t...

We happily invite you to the ImPulsTanz – Young Choreographers’ Award, which was established in 2018 and will again be awarded to the artists of the [8:tension] Young Choreographers’ Series in 2023. T...

A “Birdcage” full of drag queens? Not really, because the three funny and accomplished dancers in Simple do not exactly fill the stage in the literal sense. Fortunately, there is still plenty of room for...

“Utopian rituals” that give the prevailing politics and organisation of society “a positive injection”: this is how dance aficionado and Belgian countertenor and director Benjamin Abel Meirhaeghe underst...

Light, yearning and promising, the sensual voice of countertenor Benjamin Abel Meirhaeghe floats in this electronic performance concert that balances in a relaxed way between spectacle and love ritual. ...

The dancing sound of Firedog and Water Rat – three proverbial impossibilities; The Ogre, the Phoenix and the Faithful Friend; plus Boreal Castles: this performance trilogy covers what Benoît Lachambre con...

The dancing sound of Firedog and Water Rat – three proverbial impossibilities; The Ogre, the Phoenix and the Faithful Friend; plus Boreal Castles: this performance trilogy covers what Benoît Lachambre con...

The dancing sound of Firedog and Water Rat – three proverbial impossibilities; The Ogre, the Phoenix and the Faithful Friend; plus Boreal Castles: this performance trilogy covers what Benoît Lachambre con...

A dance governed by impulses, stimuli and meandering states of mind. A piece that savours the mood between sleep and wakefulness and the inner stirrings in the state of drowsiness, when the unconscious...

Ever since she was a teenager, Chara Kotsali has been terrified and fascinated alike by horror movies and their characters, above all the possessed woman, a staple of the genre. In her solo To Be Possessed, ...

Looking into the distance is a well-known motif in art: see Caspar David Friedrich’s painting The Monk by the Sea, for example, or countless photos filled with longing on Instagram. The name Miramar, m...

Ten years before Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, the performance art group Pussy Riot sparked a storm of media attention with their protest gig in Moscow’s Cathedral of Christ the Saviour. To mark the cen...

After his incredible Facebook Theatre at mumok in 2015 and many other concerts since, artist, performer, singer and musician Ivo Dimchev presents his popular concert format with audience participation: “...

A concert? A performance? Stand-up comedy? Provocative quiz show? Absurd poetry? An experimental performance? All at once? Or simply: Ivo Dimchev! In the last 20 years the Bulgarian artist has not just ...

For Marie Chouinard, dancing means applying every available emotional and mental movement as well as the entire body matter and its dynamics, and making the most of it all. In this new work, the Canadian...

Shoes, their style and fetish, their symbolism and the allure of the label. In this work, created as a collaboration with Olivier Saillard, the artistic director of J.M. Weston, Mathilde Monnier plays...

A polyphony of pulsating bodies, guided and carried by Tomas Furey’s transcendental, energetic music, unfolds a ritual that is as enjoyable as it is hypnotic. This is the trio Dog Rising by Canadian m...

The Egyptian Book of the Dead conjures up the magic of stepping out into the light of day. How it can assist with a symbolic rebirth today is demonstrated in this piece, in which Olivier Dubois submits...

A politically complex social construct and a provocative figure of discourse – that is what the CUNT represents. For Dani Brown, born in New York and currently a Berliner, the CUNT is even more than t...

It requires a lot of skill to go all out yet remain relaxed, casual and ironic. Even more so when, as in this piece, the bodies of the dancers do entirely without the protection of clothes. more than naked...

In Beyond The Overflow, art does its striptease. Body at work, body for sale, worked body, the performer is both an art object and a place crossed by desire: an object of multiple transactions. Elisabeth...

Dance can become vegetal. And the four dancers Alix Eynaudi, Samuel Feldhandler, Mzamo Nondlwana and Elizabeth Ward demonstrate how this can be imagined. The latter is, so to speak, the choreographic gardener...

The Heidi Horten Collection, high-profile art collection in Vienna, welcomes an illustrious guest: Emmanuelle Huynh, one of the most well-established representatives of the French dance scene. Huynh has...

Fireworks, firemen, spectacle, frenzy: BURN! is controlled chaos. Esben Weile Kjær, who doesn’t think of himself as a choreographer or dancer but a visual artist, appropriates the brute-force strategies of t...

A 40th ImPulsTanz – Vienna International Dance Festival and the 10th anniversary of Doris Uhlich’s classic: more than naked premiered at ImPulsTanz in 2013! Now we celebrate these two high-energy occasio...

After four weeks of intensive dancing students present excerpts of their achievements. An atmospherically exuberant finale!

Dancers of every style, level and age are invited to battle for the grand prize – a residency at ImPulsTanz 2024 – on 29 July at 20:15. The challenge is not only to outsmart the other participants throu...

A mysteriously eerie atmosphere awaits the audience. Seven figures sit or lie motionless in a semi-dark room. The moment the stage lights are turned on, loud music sounds from a radio, a woman appears...

Reappropriating “batty bwoy”, a Jamaican homophobic slang term, Harald Beharie’s intense solo performance moves between attribution and self-actualization. What kind of energies can be drawn from the d...

Live: Peaches (DE/CA) Special Appearance: LOU ASRIL (AT)  DJ-Support: Dial1808 (AT) & Kristian Davidek (AT) None other than the iconic feminist musician, producer, director and performance artist Peaches, ...

Live: LYZZA (NL/BR) DJ-Support: Dalia Ahmed (AT) & Peeps (DE/FR) On this evening the ImPulsTanz Festival Lounge closes and Kasino at Schwarzenberplatz opens its doors for the legendary ImPulsTanz B-Side...

Ishmael Houston-Jones (New York), whose stunning video portrait can be seen in the Adam Pendleton exhibition and Keith Hennessy (San Francisco), both highly influential artists in the US and Europe, improvise...

Even before James Batchelor takes the stage, we see who brought him here: a video shows his childhood dance teacher, Ruth Osborne, demonstrating the methods of someone she herself was hugely influenced...