Letters for later
Read all the Letters for later here
Writing about dance can be intimidating. But everybody knows how to write a letter. You usually start with the word Dear. Then you share your thoughts and perhaps update your recipient about how you're doing. There may be some questions for the reader. You finish with a kind word and a signature.
Initiated by Claire Lefèvre, Letters for later is a writing project which allows audience members to write open letters about the performances programmed at brut. Addressed to the artists, to the piece, or to the world, these letters offer a gentle and personal alternative to review-writing, inviting spectators to share their impressions from a place of care and curiosity, while also acknowledging their subjectivity.
This project aims to offer a plurality of perspectives upon the performances. It welcomes questions without demanding answers. It embraces intimate thoughts and experiences as a valid form of feedback and proposes its own time-frame: the letters will be available on brut's webpage all season, to be read on their own or as a collection, right after the shows or months later. Leaving behind a written trace of each performance and the imprint it had on one audience member.
The Letters for later will be written by members of brut’s new audience club BEATE. Meeting regularly during the whole season, BEATE accompanies rehearsals, projects and creative processes, creates dialogues with artists and takes part in brut's program decisions.
Claire Lefèvre is a French choreographer and performer working in Vienna (AT). A self-titled language nerd, Claire also teaches writing workshops, and is a contributing writer for Springback Magazine.
Events
brut all over Vienna
brut nordwest
accessible
Nordwestbahnstraße 8-10, 1200 Vienna
Subway: U1, U2 (Praterstern), U4 (Friedensbrücke), U6 (Dresdnerstraße) Tram: 5 (Nordwestbahnstraße) Bus: 5A (Wasnergasse)
Meeting point: Gasthaus Hansy at Praterstern
accessible
Heinestraße 42 , 1020 Vienna
Subway: U1, U2 (Praterstern) / S-Bahn: S1, S2, S3, S4, S7 (Praterstern) / Tram: 5 (Praterstern)
brut at Bank Austria Kunstforum Wien
accessible
Freyung 8, 1010 Vienna
Subway: U1 (Stephansplatz), U2 (Schottentor), U3 (Herrengasse) / Tram: 1, 37, 38, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44 (Schottentor) / Bus: 1A, 2A (Herrengasse U), 3A (Renngasse)
Rote Bar at Volkstheater
accessible
Arthur-Schnitzler-Platz 1, 1070 Vienna
Subway: U3 (Volkstheater) / Tram: 49 (Volkstheater) / Bus: 48A (Volkstheater)
brut at Sportplatz 1210
accessible
Jedlersdorfer Platz 25, 1210 Vienna
Subway U6 (Florisdorf) / S-Bahn: S1, S2, S3, S4, S7 (Floridsdorf) / Tram: 30, 31 (Brünner Straße / Hanreitergasse) / Bus: 30A, 32A (Toni Fritsch Weg)
studio brut
not accessible
Zieglergasse 25, 1070 Wien
Subway: U3 (Zieglergasse), Tram: 49 (Westbahnstraße / Zieglergasse)
brut nordwest – rehearsal space
not accessible
Nordwestbahnstraße 8-10, 1200 Vienna