Destination unknown and back Wide jumps and tightrope-walking – boatpeople, people belonging to nowhere and people looking for somewhere to belong – travellers on their way from here to there.   venue: MuseumsQuartier Hal...

The latest solo performance by the great diva of contemporary dance deals with loss of the female instinct and its restoration.   venue: Volkstheater dates: Jul 25, 1996, 21:00

The works of Josef Nadj are outstanding because of their black, macabre sense of humour. A complex, subtle, yet unpretentious style of movement creates an image of the more ludicrous and absurd aspects...

The works of Josef Nadj are outstanding because of their black, macabre sense of humour. A complex, subtle, yet unpretentious style of movement creates an image of the more ludicrous and absurd aspects...

duet from Joelle Bouvier (CH) and Régis Obadia (FR) “… this play consists of a certain ferocity, which is not at all cruel, but even pleasant in our ever so superficial and antiseptic world.” (“Libe...

choreography und dance: Édouard Lock “The audience hast to feel the desire of the person on stage.” (E.Lock)   venue: Volkstheater dates: Aug 06, 1996, 21:00 Aug 07, 1996, 21:00

BRUCHSTÜCKE I: Guest choreographer Randy Warshaws bold and fluent dance explores the physical and emotional bodies of three figures. THOUGH I CLOSED MYSELF AS FINGERS – Willi Dorner and Maria Polakova’s look...

The play by Jan Fabre, enfant terrible of the Belgian theatre, leads us into the world of fairy tales, where visions of horror and fear meet with princesses and magicians.   venue: Volkstheater dates: Jul...

Jan Fabre calls his duet a solo because it symbolizes two aspects of one unity.   venue: Volkstheater dates: Aug 06, 1996, 21:00 Aug 07, 1996, 21:00

CELESTIALES is a sublime connection between movement and text.   venue: Volkstheater dates: Aug 06, 1996, 21:00 Aug 07, 1996, 21:00

PASSAGE is not a play, but a piece, that enables a ritual to live outside its context.   venue: MuseumsQuartier Halle G dates: Aug 03, 1996, 21:00

Mathilde Monnier’s style is wellknown for its austere choreography, which abandons all superfluous elements to reach the essence of artistic expression.   venue: Volkstheater dates: Aug 02, 1...

Mathilde Monnier’s style is wellknown for its austere choreography, which abandons all superfluous elements to reach the essence of artistic expression.   venue: MuseumsQuartier Halle G dates: Aug 0...

With her company DAMAGED GOODS – founded in Brussels very recently – this outstanding discovery among the young choreographers causes confusion as well as enthusiasm among critics and audience.   venue: MuseumsQuartier Hal...

With her company DAMAGED GOODS – founded in Brussels very recently – this outstanding discovery among the young choreographers causes confusion as well as enthusiasm among critics and audience.   venue: MuseumsQuartier Hal...

The exciting choreography gives life to dreams. Subtle balancing of power on and around a blue couch provoke imaginative, absurd, yet comic scenes. THINGS FROM ABOVE takes us to the lighter and more...

part I: HOMUNCULI part II: ANTIQUE part III: VOYAGE TO THE MOON Her creations are always open towards other artistic disciplines. Traditional moves are constantly interrupted by unpredictable gestures....

documentary “The records of ‘Sarabande’ from the Corelli-Suite or the ‘Kameliendame’ do not only show the choreographical quality, but reveal – to all posthumous of her – the captivating personality o...

In a masterly way the protagonists of the two last Africa inspired pieces by Compagnie Mathilde Monnier build a bridge between contemporary and traditional African Dance.   venue: MuseumsQuartier...

Stephen Petronio´s table boasts everything the millennial appetite appears to crave: physical prowess, sensuality, excess and kinky chic.   venue: Volkstheater dates: Jul 19, 1996, 21:00 ...

Stephen Petronio´s table boasts everything the millennial appetite appears to crave: physical prowess, sensuality, excess and kinky chic.   venue: Volkstheater dates: Jul 21, 1996, 21:00 ...

As an uncompromisingly unnarcistic artist Urs Dietrich looks for the secrets of change and the disintegration of time. A seeker for rest within movement, movement within rest.   venue: MuseumsQuartier...

choreography: William Douglas dance: José Navas WHILE WAITING – an elegant portrait of individual struggle and transcendence in an eloquent partnership of life and art, choreographer and dancer.   venue: Volkstheater dates: Aug 06...

A choreography, which has been especially elaborated by William Forsythe and his interpreter, Michael Schumacher, for the solo presentation of IM PULS – TANZ IN WIEN ’96.   venue: Volkstheater dates: Aug 06,...

A complex and brilliant duet portraying the relationship of a couple in the nineties with wit, despair and virtuosity. Between attraction and repellence this capricious, elegant choreography proves exciting,...

“Channels“  presents the connection between dance, music, light and pictures, between things uniting and separating us, between eyes and ears, movement and its pace, time and its urgency, between the...

“I will kill thee and love thee after.” After last year´s success of “Francis Bacon” the Cie. Ismael Ivo and Johann Kresnik will investigate another kind of human obsessions. “Othello”, a world of f...

“Il Cortile“ reflects on psychological violation resulting in suppression or, in the worst case, loss of personality. A touching piece of Italian born choreographer Elio Gervasi who has made Vienna his...

Unworldly, magical and fascinating atmosphere in the new creations by Jorma Uotinen “Halla”, his solo and “7 Women”. The cooperation between the director of the FINNISH NATIONAL BALLET and INTERNATIONALE TANZWOC...

“Whenever La La La Human Steps performs, the reaction is the same: “an event ... a radically new choreographic language.“ Making a tabula rasa of the past Èdouard Lock has virtually eradicated the bo...

“Bonjour Madame...“ a piece about the world of the outsider, the maladjusted. Dance as the expression of an authentic awareness of life, all the hopes and desperation of the world. Dance as the outlet of ...

Screening & Talk : Cage/Cunningham & Beach Birds for Camera   venue: Filmhaus Wien dates: Aug 08, 1995, 20:00 Aug 08, 1995, 22:00

  venue: Volkstheater dates: Aug 11, 1995, 21:00

  venue: Museumsquartier dates: Aug, 01,1995, 21:00

“PA RT“ a legendary – of course always new – master-piece of improvisation by Steve Paxton and Lisa Nelson. To the texts of „Private Parts“ by Robert Ashley virtuose solos and duets are created in the mome...

This year Trisha Brown, a legend of modern dance art, will come back to Vienna with two Austrian premieres. The 1-hour choreography “M.O.” marks the beginning of a new phase in Trisha Brown´s work. In c...

“Alle Größen decken sich zu“ is based on the collected texts by Carlo Verano (1903 – 1992) – a “full head in a filled apartment“ who is occasionally overcome by the past. Wim Vandekeybus, fascinated by...

  venue: Volkstheater dates: Aug 14, 1994, 21:00 Aug 15, 1994, 21:00

  venue: Volkstheater dates: Aug 01, 1994, 21:00

  venue: Volkstheater dates: Aug, 02, 1994, 21:00

  venue: Volkstheater dates: Aug 06, 1994, 21:00 Aug 07, 1994, 21:00 Aug 08, 1994, 21:00

  venue: Volkstheater dates: Aug 04, 1994, 21:00 Aug 05, 1994, 21:00

  venue: Volkstheater dates: Jul 27, 1994, 21:00

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  venue: Volkstheater dates: Jul 30, 1994, 21:00

  venue: Volkstheater dates: Aug 01, 1994, 21:00

  venue: Volkstheater dates: Aug 12, 1994, 21:00

  venue: Volkstheater dates: Aug 10, 1994, 21:00 Aug 11, 1994, 21:00

Jean-Claude Gallotta refers to his choreographies as visual music or symbolized dreams. After his study of painting Gallotta studied Merce Cunningham’s abstraction. But his pieces deal with “narrative emo...

For many years Jorma Uotinen was the personal tip from Europe’s far north among the modern non-classical choreographers; today he is one of the most successful guest choreographers (last commitment a...

Exhilaration, imagination and irony characterize Régine Chopinot’s work. The visionary of the Ballet Atlantique whose wondrous ideas are marked by the world of comics and movies studies in detail th...

Exhilaration, imagination and irony characterize Régine Chopinot’s work. The visionary of the Ballet Atlantique whose wondrous ideas are marked by the world of comics and movies studies in detail th...

The New Yorker artist is one oft he most innovative and provocative choreographers oft he contemporary dance scene. His unusual interpretation of Stravinsky’s “Le Sacre du Printemps” “Half Wrong Plus La...

The New Yorker artist is one oft he most innovative and provocative choreographers oft he contemporary dance scene. His unusual interpretation of Stravinsky’s “Le Sacre du Printemps” “Half Wrong Plus La...

Trisha Brown who last appeared in Austria in 1976 has become somewhat like a legend today. In the sixties the New York pioneer of Post Modern Dance reviewed the most elementary irreversibilities of human...

Trisha Brown who last appeared in Austria in 1976 has become somewhat like a legend today. In the sixties the New York pioneer of Post Modern Dance reviewed the most elementary irreversibilities of human...

You will rarely find impetuous youth expressed in such a conclusive way in all its ambiguity and unveiled directness as in the artistic works of Belgium’s radical dance scene. Wim Vandekeybus is one o...

As a principal dancer of the José Limon Company Carlos Orta certainly belongs to the most prominent representatives of stage dance. He collaborated among others with Jiri Kylián, Anna Sokolow, Lucas H...

“She is completely without respect for conventions and, at the same time, incredibly secure about form and message.” Göteborgs Tidningen   venue: Theater im Künstlerhaus dates: Aug 15, 1992,...

“One of the best young American dancer-choreographers now working on an international scale.” Chicago Tribune   venue: Theater im Künstlerhaus dates: Aug 19, 1992, 21:00 Aug 20, 1992, 21:0...

“Kind of performance that reminds us why we go to the theatre.” New York Press   venue: Theater im Künstlerhaus dates: Aug 10, 1992, 21:00 Aug 11, 1992, 21:00

After his successful guest performance at TANZ ’92 Doug Elkins will now present solistic works. He is considered a prolific and versatile creator whose style defies categories representing a mixture o...

“Sometimes I feel like a midwife. My greatest wish would be to impart a new understanding of dancing.” Frey Faust   venue: Theater im Künstlerhaus dates: Aug 19, 1992, 21:00 Aug 20, 1992, 21:0...

To the music of “The Unfinished Symphony” by Schubert Iztok Kovac slings his body into the twilight zone of the dance space like a projectile of merciless passion.   venue: Theater im Künstlerhaus dates: Aug 07, ...

“The timeless tradition which is Jose Limon’s, … is kept alive in Alegado’s works in the sense that we are part man… part angel.”   venue: Theater im Künstlerhaus dates: Aug 25, 1992, 21:00 ...

Arianna e il labirinto “Arianna is a victim of a destiny that can be traduced in the form LOVE-PERFECTION-DESTRUCTION.”   venue: Theater im Künstlerhaus dates: Jul 31, 1992, 21:00 Aug 01, ...

“Each work is a happening taking place ‘outside’ and looking for the unfinished form.” Ko Murobushi   venue: Theater im Künstlerhaus dates: Aug 13, 1992, 21:00 Aug 14, 1992, 21:00 ...

Mary Overlie’s motivation for making these two post-modern dances partly arose from the wish to contribute in some small way to the vast changes that are happening in societies in our times and to p...

“… kamikaze ecstasy … one of the major new talents to emerge in American dance … dance at its whizzingly inventive best.” London’s Time Out   venue: Theater im Künstlerhaus dates: Aug 15, 1992, 21...

For many years Jorma Uotinen, head of the Finnish National Ballet, has been closely collaborating with Carolyn Carlson, choreographing for her “Groupe des Récherces Théatrales” but also for the Milan...

The works of Yoshiko Chuma can be characterized as “explosions of com-munication, drawing on the field of visual arts, new music, performance art and dance – works whcih are like social microcosms, tou...

Cristina Caprioli, who was born in Italy but has been living in Stockholm since 1983, teaches at the Stockholm Balettakademien. In 1985 she founded her own company. Cristina Caprioli loves the pure and...

„Utt“, a result oft he collaboration betweeen Carlotta Ikeda and Ko Murobushi, is a journey tot he origins of life, a re-expereince of birth and death. Dressed in white with black hair – the archetype of a ...

Don Quijote is music by invisible instruments. In a time when utopias and ideologies seem shattered, lost or impossible, this performance wants to reflect „old“ utopias on the stage. The piece deals wit...

“The metamorphosis of man into animal is painful. The bull has no horns. His head is heavy, laden with ideas. The bull spreads his energy. He gives a bit of his body to each seat, to each spectator a...

The elements of Wim Vandekeybus’ dance are: force, energy, elan and swiftness reduced by elements of wit and coincidence. The sense of danger is present everywhere. Most exact timing, strictest discipline, p...

Michèle Anne de Mey – former member of the „Rosas”, the company of Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker – founded her own troupe in 1989. “Sinfonia Eroica” is the first full-length production of her company. Bee...

Nina Corti was 17 years old and had many years of piano and ballet education when she discovered the original culture of the gypsies. The daughter of a father of Italian-Spanish descent and of a mother...

„Rapta“ – the sixth and most recent production of one of Span’s most successful up-and-coming dancers and choreographers who danced under Anne Teresa de Keersmakeer – is the energetic attempt of two in...

Two highly different languages of movement, whose origins reveal a great proximity to each other… approximation of the two worlds, the languages of movement and approximation of the two bodies. Jean-Yves G...

Quadro Quartet – the four musicians oft he Flemish string quartet, though having diverse musical backgrounds and skills, are linked by the same passion: the instrumental interpretation of both genuinely n...

“Affekte” – Homage to Dore Hoyer: In 1962 this last great solo dancer of Ausdrucktanz who Mary Wigman often called her only legitimate successor, choreographed and dances “Affectos Humanos”, the great...

Proceeding from a routine work – washing clothes – this performance shows three women whose movements are getting more and more abstracted. They are getting further and further away from their "washing wor...

  Spielort: Odeon Termine: 10.08.1989, 21:00 11.08.1989, 21:00

In a dancing hall just covered with a white linoleum two persons feel cold and alone. Both dancers act separately with sparse, cool movements, then follows the first approach, the first kiss. This first...

In composing her performance Charo Calvo proceeds from the opposite relationshipt between recorded music and the sounds the body produces when moving. She wants to carry to extremes the emtional aspects...

  venue: Odeon dates: Aug 21, 1988, 21:00 Aug 22, 1988, 21:00

  venue: Odeon dates: Aug 06, 1989, 21:00 Aug 07, 1989, 21:00

  venue: Odeon dates: Aug 04, 1989, 21:00 Aug 05, 1989, 21:00

In our postidyllic society the individual feels more and more forced into isolation. This problem is the basic subjet of Domenico Strazzeri's work. He presents it in the story of the man in the street...

This performance shows a section from the working process for the piece "Von Frauen und Männern", the performance of which is scheduled for autum 1990. Dealing with men and women, this piece will, of ...

  venue: Odeon dates: Aug 18, 1988, 21:00 Aug 20, 1988, 21:00

  venue: Odeon dates: Aug 17, 1988, 19:30

Song of a deplorable soul which is soaring into the sky but does not want to get into heaven. We regret the rather brief information on this choreography but this is due to a later admission the the...

  venue: Odeon dates: Aug 23, 1988, 21:00 Aug 24, 1988, 21:00