Frankenstein’s creature at the foot of the Salzburg Fortress
Salzburg is always worth a detour. Not only because of its historical, architectural uniqueness. Theatre enthusiasts will also find a range of events there that is well worth seeing – even outside of the festival.
Why is this Shakespeare so unknown?
The production not only lives from the fact that it shows different views of a successful state and their respective representatives. The production also lives from strong, emotional moments.
When the risotto starts to smell
Carmen C. Kruse and Manuel Zwerger achieved the feat of coupling a VR performance with a live experience. European Kitchen Encounters: VR_Bania became a not only theatrical but also epicurean experience for the audience on the occasion of the ‘Musiktheatertage Wien’.
Chornobyldorf – a look back and one forward
The threat to the earth posed by technological progress, hybrid forms of human beings who practise art genres that can nevertheless never be animated by them, but “Chornobyldorf” contains all this and much more. Apart from all artistic intention, the piece is also a strong commitment to Europe.
From a Zen exercise to physical massacre
Simon Mayer combines high-tech equipment with a purely human-based choreography. Although he explores new techniques excessively, his piece “Being moved” conveys a lot of depth.
Wherever it says Ivo Dimchev, there’s pure entertainment inside
Ivo Dimchev was a guest at Impulstanz for the 15th time. And rightly so. Because each of his shows is and has been an experience. Although he has a good, recognisable USP, the artist always devotes himself to new topics. In doing so, he seems to be endowed with an almost inexhaustible creativity.
Jarrett meets Mitchell meets Harrell
“The Köln Concert” by Keith Jarrett shows itself in Trajal Harrell’s dance arrangement as a successful symbiosis of different artistic genres.
A recurring sacrifice in new guise
Dada Masilo, the South African dancer and choreographer, has made a name for herself in recent years with new interpretations of classical ballets. With “Swanlake”, “Carmen” and “Giselle”, she set strong, new interpretative scents. With “The Sacrifice”, a new arrangement of the “Sacre du Printemps”, she wanted to explore what sacrifices we are prepared to make today.
Disappeared impulse givers
In 2022, the Impulstanz Festival had invited Lenio Kaklea, a dancer and choreographer from Greece, to Vienna, as it had several times before. She was joined by the French pianist and composer of British origin, Orlando Bass, who performed live on a prepared piano.
Brutal Romanticism
“Dance. A Sylphidic Reverie in Stunts” by Florentine Holzinger transforms ballet dancers into bloodthirsty witches.
Memories in a row
This year, the Impulstanz Festival is showing productions by international dance greats like a non-stop stream. Wim Vandekeybus was represented with two new works. After his show ‘Hands do not touch your precious Me’, he showed “Scattered Memories” at the Volkstheater – a retrospective of 35 years of Ultima Vez.
Animalistic and cool calculation
Dark, threatening, somnambulistic, powerful and poetic. This is how “Hands do not touch your precious me” presents itself with the eponymous subtitle “The mingled universe of Wim Vandekeybus, Charo Calvo & Olivier de Sagazan”.
What do you really need to know about the creation of a work of art?
Jan Lauwers created a multidimensional artistic masterpiece with his “Needcompany”.
The Jungle Book – reimagined
With “Jungle Book reimagined”, Akram Khan created a story of Rudyard Kipling’s classic that has been revised in terms of content. Designed as a great dance spectacle, it is sure to conquer the stages of the world.
Much and little and yet more than enough of everything
On the opening weekend, the Festival Impulstanz showed “Dances for an actress” by Jérôme Bel and “Vollmond. A Piece by Pina Bausch”. If you take these two productions as a taste of what may be to come, you can justifiably look forward to the next Dance Weeks in Vienna.
Only stagnation means freedom
Humans live isolated from other individuals as hybrid beings, controlled by a global intelligence machinery. Caroline Peters and Ledwald impressed at the Hamakom as part of the Vienna Festival.
An animal election campaign
When it comes to voting, one is spoilt for choice in the truest sense of the word. Right, left, moderate, up or down, established party or newcomer – you should at least familiarize yourself with their election programmes. The Schubert Theatre, specialised in puppet theatre for adults, presents its audience with a special treat with “Election Campaign of the Animals”.
Quo vaditis, Rabtaldirndln and toxic dreams?
Graz housewives versus Viennese housewives – an astonishingly tiring combination
An exciting mixture
Bouchra Ouizguen presented a cross-border dance project with her work “Elephant” as part of the Wiener Festwochen.
What a time!
In the years of the Trump era, we around the globe became familiar with the concept of fake-news. So much so that we now think we have to adopt lying ourselves in order to survive in society. Martin Gruber and his ensemble have taken a closer look at the phenomenon. But not only this one.
Not for the faint-hearted
Blood wants blood. This sentence from “Macbeth. After William Shakespeare” by Heiner Müller was taken more than literally by director Stephan Rottkamp. The production of the play at the Schauspielhaus in Graz begins bloody and ends bloody. In between: Blood by the bucketful.
The horror does not only take place in the theatre
Abuse of power begins in the family and it is passed on from there. With ‘L’etang / Der Teich’, Gisèle Vienne succeeded in creating a highly emotional adaptation of Robert Walser’s play of the same name. It shows how children are emotionally at the mercy of their parents and how much they suffer when they are deprived of love.
At the breaking point between the old and the new
Tschechows „Der Kirschgarten“ in der Inszenierung von Tiago Rodrigues, überzeugte bei den Wiener Festwochen gleich in mehrfacher Hinsicht.
A lot of head, not much heart
In ‘Un imagen interior’ by the group El Conde de Torrefiel, reaching into the magic box of post-dramatic theatre only worked to a limited extent.
Everything has already been there and yet much that is new
Michael Köhlmeier filled the Graz Schauspielhaus with his “Evening of Greek Mythology”. A good idea to get still hesitant audiences back into the house after the pandemic-induced break.
Music and dance without time and space
TUMULUS – the new work by François Chaignaud and conductor Geoffroy Jourdain unites dance with historical and contemporary music. It tells of the transience of life as well as of the desire to celebrate and enjoy life.
Playing the piano means much more than just pressing the keys
Peter Bence is currently filling concert halls around the globe. Like hardly any other pianist, he has experienced a meteoric rise within a short time.
Improbable – The Paper Man
What may sound like a straightforward story about football and Nazis turns out to be so much more. Laying bare the layers of society, of patriarchy and white privilege, The Paper Man playfully questions predominant narratives and power structures.
The beautiful Leviathan
The Internationale Bühnenwerkstatt opened its annual festival with James Wilton Dance Cie’s “Leviathan based on Moby-Dick”, a performance loaded with testosterone and violence, but also plenty of poetry.
The Sound Magician
I have come to understand that ‘sound’ in my life is the means by which I can best express myself, and with which I can help people greatly.
Evolution and its physical legacy
“Bones and Stones” – what rhymes so wonderfully in English sounds much more unwieldy in German.
Frankenstein’s creature at the foot of the Salzburg Fortress
Salzburg is always worth a detour. Not only because of its historical, architectural uniqueness. Theatre enthusiasts will also find a range of events there that is well worth seeing – even outside of the festival.
Why is this Shakespeare so unknown?
The production not only lives from the fact that it shows different views of a successful state and their respective representatives. The production also lives from strong, emotional moments.
When the risotto starts to smell
Carmen C. Kruse and Manuel Zwerger achieved the feat of coupling a VR performance with a live experience. European Kitchen Encounters: VR_Bania became a not only theatrical but also epicurean experience for the audience on the occasion of the ‘Musiktheatertage Wien’.
Chornobyldorf – a look back and one forward
The threat to the earth posed by technological progress, hybrid forms of human beings who practise art genres that can nevertheless never be animated by them, but “Chornobyldorf” contains all this and much more. Apart from all artistic intention, the piece is also a strong commitment to Europe.
From a Zen exercise to physical massacre
Simon Mayer combines high-tech equipment with a purely human-based choreography. Although he explores new techniques excessively, his piece “Being moved” conveys a lot of depth.
Wherever it says Ivo Dimchev, there’s pure entertainment inside
Ivo Dimchev was a guest at Impulstanz for the 15th time. And rightly so. Because each of his shows is and has been an experience. Although he has a good, recognisable USP, the artist always devotes himself to new topics. In doing so, he seems to be endowed with an almost inexhaustible creativity.
Jarrett meets Mitchell meets Harrell
“The Köln Concert” by Keith Jarrett shows itself in Trajal Harrell’s dance arrangement as a successful symbiosis of different artistic genres.
A recurring sacrifice in new guise
Dada Masilo, the South African dancer and choreographer, has made a name for herself in recent years with new interpretations of classical ballets. With “Swanlake”, “Carmen” and “Giselle”, she set strong, new interpretative scents. With “The Sacrifice”, a new arrangement of the “Sacre du Printemps”, she wanted to explore what sacrifices we are prepared to make today.
Disappeared impulse givers
In 2022, the Impulstanz Festival had invited Lenio Kaklea, a dancer and choreographer from Greece, to Vienna, as it had several times before. She was joined by the French pianist and composer of British origin, Orlando Bass, who performed live on a prepared piano.
Brutal Romanticism
“Dance. A Sylphidic Reverie in Stunts” by Florentine Holzinger transforms ballet dancers into bloodthirsty witches.
Memories in a row
This year, the Impulstanz Festival is showing productions by international dance greats like a non-stop stream. Wim Vandekeybus was represented with two new works. After his show ‘Hands do not touch your precious Me’, he showed “Scattered Memories” at the Volkstheater – a retrospective of 35 years of Ultima Vez.
Animalistic and cool calculation
Dark, threatening, somnambulistic, powerful and poetic. This is how “Hands do not touch your precious me” presents itself with the eponymous subtitle “The mingled universe of Wim Vandekeybus, Charo Calvo & Olivier de Sagazan”.
What do you really need to know about the creation of a work of art?
Jan Lauwers created a multidimensional artistic masterpiece with his “Needcompany”.
The Jungle Book – reimagined
With “Jungle Book reimagined”, Akram Khan created a story of Rudyard Kipling’s classic that has been revised in terms of content. Designed as a great dance spectacle, it is sure to conquer the stages of the world.
Much and little and yet more than enough of everything
On the opening weekend, the Festival Impulstanz showed “Dances for an actress” by Jérôme Bel and “Vollmond. A Piece by Pina Bausch”. If you take these two productions as a taste of what may be to come, you can justifiably look forward to the next Dance Weeks in Vienna.
Only stagnation means freedom
Humans live isolated from other individuals as hybrid beings, controlled by a global intelligence machinery. Caroline Peters and Ledwald impressed at the Hamakom as part of the Vienna Festival.
An animal election campaign
When it comes to voting, one is spoilt for choice in the truest sense of the word. Right, left, moderate, up or down, established party or newcomer – you should at least familiarize yourself with their election programmes. The Schubert Theatre, specialised in puppet theatre for adults, presents its audience with a special treat with “Election Campaign of the Animals”.
Quo vaditis, Rabtaldirndln and toxic dreams?
Graz housewives versus Viennese housewives – an astonishingly tiring combination
An exciting mixture
Bouchra Ouizguen presented a cross-border dance project with her work “Elephant” as part of the Wiener Festwochen.
What a time!
In the years of the Trump era, we around the globe became familiar with the concept of fake-news. So much so that we now think we have to adopt lying ourselves in order to survive in society. Martin Gruber and his ensemble have taken a closer look at the phenomenon. But not only this one.
Not for the faint-hearted
Blood wants blood. This sentence from “Macbeth. After William Shakespeare” by Heiner Müller was taken more than literally by director Stephan Rottkamp. The production of the play at the Schauspielhaus in Graz begins bloody and ends bloody. In between: Blood by the bucketful.
The horror does not only take place in the theatre
Abuse of power begins in the family and it is passed on from there. With ‘L’etang / Der Teich’, Gisèle Vienne succeeded in creating a highly emotional adaptation of Robert Walser’s play of the same name. It shows how children are emotionally at the mercy of their parents and how much they suffer when they are deprived of love.
At the breaking point between the old and the new
Tschechows „Der Kirschgarten“ in der Inszenierung von Tiago Rodrigues, überzeugte bei den Wiener Festwochen gleich in mehrfacher Hinsicht.
A lot of head, not much heart
In ‘Un imagen interior’ by the group El Conde de Torrefiel, reaching into the magic box of post-dramatic theatre only worked to a limited extent.
Everything has already been there and yet much that is new
Michael Köhlmeier filled the Graz Schauspielhaus with his “Evening of Greek Mythology”. A good idea to get still hesitant audiences back into the house after the pandemic-induced break.
Music and dance without time and space
TUMULUS – the new work by François Chaignaud and conductor Geoffroy Jourdain unites dance with historical and contemporary music. It tells of the transience of life as well as of the desire to celebrate and enjoy life.
Playing the piano means much more than just pressing the keys
Peter Bence is currently filling concert halls around the globe. Like hardly any other pianist, he has experienced a meteoric rise within a short time.
Improbable – The Paper Man
What may sound like a straightforward story about football and Nazis turns out to be so much more. Laying bare the layers of society, of patriarchy and white privilege, The Paper Man playfully questions predominant narratives and power structures.
The beautiful Leviathan
The Internationale Bühnenwerkstatt opened its annual festival with James Wilton Dance Cie’s “Leviathan based on Moby-Dick”, a performance loaded with testosterone and violence, but also plenty of poetry.
Frankenstein’s creature at the foot of the Salzburg Fortress
Salzburg is always worth a detour. Not only because of its historical, architectural uniqueness. Theatre enthusiasts will also find a range of events there that is well worth seeing – even outside of the festival.
Why is this Shakespeare so unknown?
The production not only lives from the fact that it shows different views of a successful state and their respective representatives. The production also lives from strong, emotional moments.
When the risotto starts to smell
Carmen C. Kruse and Manuel Zwerger achieved the feat of coupling a VR performance with a live experience. European Kitchen Encounters: VR_Bania became a not only theatrical but also epicurean experience for the audience on the occasion of the ‘Musiktheatertage Wien’.
Chornobyldorf – a look back and one forward
The threat to the earth posed by technological progress, hybrid forms of human beings who practise art genres that can nevertheless never be animated by them, but “Chornobyldorf” contains all this and much more. Apart from all artistic intention, the piece is also a strong commitment to Europe.
From a Zen exercise to physical massacre
Simon Mayer combines high-tech equipment with a purely human-based choreography. Although he explores new techniques excessively, his piece “Being moved” conveys a lot of depth.
Wherever it says Ivo Dimchev, there’s pure entertainment inside
Ivo Dimchev was a guest at Impulstanz for the 15th time. And rightly so. Because each of his shows is and has been an experience. Although he has a good, recognisable USP, the artist always devotes himself to new topics. In doing so, he seems to be endowed with an almost inexhaustible creativity.
Jarrett meets Mitchell meets Harrell
“The Köln Concert” by Keith Jarrett shows itself in Trajal Harrell’s dance arrangement as a successful symbiosis of different artistic genres.
A recurring sacrifice in new guise
Dada Masilo, the South African dancer and choreographer, has made a name for herself in recent years with new interpretations of classical ballets. With “Swanlake”, “Carmen” and “Giselle”, she set strong, new interpretative scents. With “The Sacrifice”, a new arrangement of the “Sacre du Printemps”, she wanted to explore what sacrifices we are prepared to make today.
Disappeared impulse givers
In 2022, the Impulstanz Festival had invited Lenio Kaklea, a dancer and choreographer from Greece, to Vienna, as it had several times before. She was joined by the French pianist and composer of British origin, Orlando Bass, who performed live on a prepared piano.
Brutal Romanticism
“Dance. A Sylphidic Reverie in Stunts” by Florentine Holzinger transforms ballet dancers into bloodthirsty witches.
Memories in a row
This year, the Impulstanz Festival is showing productions by international dance greats like a non-stop stream. Wim Vandekeybus was represented with two new works. After his show ‘Hands do not touch your precious Me’, he showed “Scattered Memories” at the Volkstheater – a retrospective of 35 years of Ultima Vez.
Animalistic and cool calculation
Dark, threatening, somnambulistic, powerful and poetic. This is how “Hands do not touch your precious me” presents itself with the eponymous subtitle “The mingled universe of Wim Vandekeybus, Charo Calvo & Olivier de Sagazan”.
What do you really need to know about the creation of a work of art?
Jan Lauwers created a multidimensional artistic masterpiece with his “Needcompany”.
The Jungle Book – reimagined
With “Jungle Book reimagined”, Akram Khan created a story of Rudyard Kipling’s classic that has been revised in terms of content. Designed as a great dance spectacle, it is sure to conquer the stages of the world.
Much and little and yet more than enough of everything
On the opening weekend, the Festival Impulstanz showed “Dances for an actress” by Jérôme Bel and “Vollmond. A Piece by Pina Bausch”. If you take these two productions as a taste of what may be to come, you can justifiably look forward to the next Dance Weeks in Vienna.
Only stagnation means freedom
Humans live isolated from other individuals as hybrid beings, controlled by a global intelligence machinery. Caroline Peters and Ledwald impressed at the Hamakom as part of the Vienna Festival.
An animal election campaign
When it comes to voting, one is spoilt for choice in the truest sense of the word. Right, left, moderate, up or down, established party or newcomer – you should at least familiarize yourself with their election programmes. The Schubert Theatre, specialised in puppet theatre for adults, presents its audience with a special treat with “Election Campaign of the Animals”.
Quo vaditis, Rabtaldirndln and toxic dreams?
Graz housewives versus Viennese housewives – an astonishingly tiring combination
An exciting mixture
Bouchra Ouizguen presented a cross-border dance project with her work “Elephant” as part of the Wiener Festwochen.
What a time!
In the years of the Trump era, we around the globe became familiar with the concept of fake-news. So much so that we now think we have to adopt lying ourselves in order to survive in society. Martin Gruber and his ensemble have taken a closer look at the phenomenon. But not only this one.
Not for the faint-hearted
Blood wants blood. This sentence from “Macbeth. After William Shakespeare” by Heiner Müller was taken more than literally by director Stephan Rottkamp. The production of the play at the Schauspielhaus in Graz begins bloody and ends bloody. In between: Blood by the bucketful.
The horror does not only take place in the theatre
Abuse of power begins in the family and it is passed on from there. With ‘L’etang / Der Teich’, Gisèle Vienne succeeded in creating a highly emotional adaptation of Robert Walser’s play of the same name. It shows how children are emotionally at the mercy of their parents and how much they suffer when they are deprived of love.
At the breaking point between the old and the new
Tschechows „Der Kirschgarten“ in der Inszenierung von Tiago Rodrigues, überzeugte bei den Wiener Festwochen gleich in mehrfacher Hinsicht.
A lot of head, not much heart
In ‘Un imagen interior’ by the group El Conde de Torrefiel, reaching into the magic box of post-dramatic theatre only worked to a limited extent.
Everything has already been there and yet much that is new
Michael Köhlmeier filled the Graz Schauspielhaus with his “Evening of Greek Mythology”. A good idea to get still hesitant audiences back into the house after the pandemic-induced break.
Music and dance without time and space
TUMULUS – the new work by François Chaignaud and conductor Geoffroy Jourdain unites dance with historical and contemporary music. It tells of the transience of life as well as of the desire to celebrate and enjoy life.
Playing the piano means much more than just pressing the keys
Peter Bence is currently filling concert halls around the globe. Like hardly any other pianist, he has experienced a meteoric rise within a short time.
Improbable – The Paper Man
What may sound like a straightforward story about football and Nazis turns out to be so much more. Laying bare the layers of society, of patriarchy and white privilege, The Paper Man playfully questions predominant narratives and power structures.
The beautiful Leviathan
The Internationale Bühnenwerkstatt opened its annual festival with James Wilton Dance Cie’s “Leviathan based on Moby-Dick”, a performance loaded with testosterone and violence, but also plenty of poetry.
The Sound Magician
I have come to understand that ‘sound’ in my life is the means by which I can best express myself, and with which I can help people greatly.
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