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OPEN CALL Residency imagetanz 2023

With Handle with care selected by BEATE two artists or groups receive the opportunity to complete a 2-week residency during the festival imagetanz in March 2023 at brut and will open their working process in a presentation to the public at the end of the residency. Application deadline: October 2nd 2022
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You can be BEATE, too

BEATE is short for BRUT’S ENGAGED AUDIENCE as THEATRE EXPERTS – might sound complicated, but is actually pretty simple: BEATE joins rehearsals and creation processes of projects, opens a dialogue with artists and takes part in brut’s season programming. Please register until September 18th
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OPEN CALL Residency and presentation at imagetanz 2022 at brut Handle with care selected by BEATE

Handle with care selected by BEATE will be a special edition during the festival imagetanz 2022 at brut. BEATE (Brut’s Engaged Audience as Theatre Experts) is the name of the audience club at brut, where engaged brut visitors attend rehearsals, showings and performances together to discuss and reflect about them, have talks with artists and experts and take part in brut’s season programming.
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Katharina Senk & Tanja Erhart – j_e_n_g_a. The Movie

j_e_n_g_a – The Movie is a multi-lingual dance-film in which Tanja Erhart, her two crutches and Katharina Senk explore the juicyness of pleasure, interdependence and intersectional feminism in multi-sensorial perspectives. The film contains interactive parts in which the viewers have options to choose from and to guide the film while diving into their very own pleasure feelings.
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You can be BEATE, too!

Come join BEATE, the audience club at brut. BEATE is short for BRUT’S ENGAGED AUDIENCE as THEATRE EXPERTS – might sound complicated, but is actually pretty simple: BEATE joins rehearsals and creation processes of projects, opens a dialogue with artists and takes part in brut’s season programming.
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About BEATE – brut's active audience club

The brut audience club meets regularly to exchange ideas, works internationally with groups of other Be SpectACTive! network members and visits events of the brut programme.
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TALK TALK TALK!

dialogue between brut's artistic director Kira Kirsch and theatre maker Samara Hersch – about inspiration, motivation and creative work
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Interview mit Sara-Lisa Bals: Ein fiktiver Feiertag zu Ehren einer widerständigen Frau*

Im Rahmen des imagetanz Festivals lädt Sara-Lisa Bals zu einem Online-Probenbesuch. Im Interview erzählt sie, was es mit dem fiktiven Feiertag auf sich hat, nach dem ihre Performance "CUMERNUSTAG" benannt ist.
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Interview mit Klemens Hegen: Die Schönheit des Scheiterns

Im Rahmen des imagetanz Festivals lädt das Team von "poetry of failure" zu einem Online-Probenbesuch. Im Interview erzählt Klemens Hegen, was der Ausgangspunkt für ihre Arbeit war und worin die Schönheit des Scheiterns liegt.
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European Spectators Festival

European Spectators Day will take place on November 21st! The sixth edition of the festival is a digital and community-based event, that involves and connects the local groups of active spectators participating in the co-programming activities developed in the framework of the European project Be SpectACTive!.
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Collection of Spectators – INSTRUCTION #7 – ASK A QUESTION. FIND AN ANSWER​.

In preparation for the European Spectators Day, the artist Raquel André will give you various tasks until November 21st. The focus lies on the relationship between audiences and artistic works. Raquel André studied at the Theater and Film School in Lisbon and got her Masters degree in Performing Arts in Rio de Janeiro. She develops cross-genre projects in the fields of theater, dance, film and television. Her passion for collecting is expressed in her artistic projects.
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be spectACTive! Instruction #6 – INSPIRE ME

In preparation for the European Spectators Day, the artist Raquel André will give you various tasks until November 21st. The focus lies on the relationship between audiences and artistic works. Raquel André studied at the Theater and Film School in Lisbon and got her Masters degree in Performing Arts in Rio de Janeiro. She develops cross-genre projects in the fields of theater, dance, film and television. Her passion for collecting is expressed in her artistic projects.
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Collection of Spectators Instruction #5 – TELL ME: HOW ARE YOU?

In preparation for the European Spectators Day, the artist Raquel André will give you various tasks until November 21st. The focus lies on the relationship between audiences and artistic works. Raquel André studied at the Theater and Film School in Lisbon and got her Masters degree in Performing Arts in Rio de Janeiro. She develops cross-genre projects in the fields of theater, dance, film and television. Her passion for collecting is expressed in her artistic projects.
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Collection of Spectators Intstruction #4 – WRITE A MANIFESTO

In preparation for the European Spectators Day, the artist Raquel André will give you various tasks until November 21st. The focus lies on the relationship between audiences and artistic works. Raquel André studied at the Theater and Film School in Lisbon and got her Masters degree in Performing Arts in Rio de Janeiro. She develops cross-genre projects in the fields of theater, dance, film and television. Her passion for collecting is expressed in her artistic projects.
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Collection of Spectators Introduction #3 – SING ME A SONG

In preparation for the European Spectators Day, the artist Raquel André will give you various tasks until November 21st. The focus lies on the relationship between audiences and artistic works. Raquel André studied at the Theater and Film School in Lisbon and got her Masters degree in Performing Arts in Rio de Janeiro. She develops cross-genre projects in the fields of theater, dance, film and television. Her passion for collecting is expressed in her artistic projects.
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Collection of Spectators Instruction #2 – KEEP SOMETHING MINE

In preparation for the European Spectators Day, the artist Raquel André will give you various tasks until November 21st. The focus lies on the relationship between audiences and artistic works. Raquel André studied at the Theater and Film School in Lisbon and got her Masters degree in Performing Arts in Rio de Janeiro. She develops cross-genre projects in the fields of theater, dance, film and television. Her passion for collecting is expressed in her artistic projects.
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OPEN CALL: Residency and presentation at imagetanz 2021

With Handle with care selected by BEATE two artists or groups receive the opportunity to complete a 1-week residency during the festival imagetanz at brut and will open their working process in a presentation to the public at the end of the week.
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Collection of Spectators

In preparation for the European Spectators Day, the artist Raquel André will give you various tasks until November 21st. The focus lies on the relationship between audiences and artistic works. Raquel André studied at the Theater and Film School in Lisbon and got her Masters degree in Performing Arts in Rio de Janeiro. She develops cross-genre projects in the fields of theater, dance, film and television. Her passion for collecting is expressed in her artistic projects.
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Collection of Spectators Instruction #1 – I WANNA TALK TO YOU

In preparation for the European Spectators Day, the artist Raquel André will give you various tasks until November 21st. The focus lies on the relationship between audiences and artistic works. Raquel André studied at the Theater and Film School in Lisbon and got her Masters degree in Performing Arts in Rio de Janeiro. She develops cross-genre projects in the fields of theater, dance, film and television. Her passion for collecting is expressed in her artistic projects.
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Handle with Care selected by BEATE

Drei Fragen an Tanja Erhart & Katharina Senk und Julia Müllner
European Spectator's Day 2019
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European Spectator's Day 2019

The 5th European Spectator’s Day took place on November 16 as part of the European be SpectACTive! Network, in which brut’s audience club BEATE participated. In studio brut they met to discuss the central issues of discussion on freedom at the same time with each other and with over twenty groups at other theaters and institutions throughout Europe via Facebook. The meeting was graphically captured by local artists at each location. The idea of the European Spectator’s Day, as well as the entire be SpectACTive! Network, is to enable interested audiences to actively participate in the artistic work of an institution.
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Cultural Infuencer wanted

The European theatre network Be SpectACTive! is looking for cultural influencers who want to travel through Europe, visit different theatres and feature their productions on instagram. The European call is open from 1 March to 15 April.
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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)
accessible

February 2026
How to festival?
March 2026
LIFT Tanzkollektiv (Liv Schellander, Irene Giró, Fia/Sophia Neises, Tanja Erhart)
BIOFUCK
March 2026
Taking the time
March 2026
marhaba مرحبا at brut with IZRAA, Noura Hashem, Anahita Neghabat & Khashajar Hani
March 2026
Touch Tour
March 2026
tanz.sucht.theater
BUZZ
March 2026
BUZZING around
March 2026
gergo d. farkas
rascal
March 2026
imagetanz Closing Party with a DJ set by Yinna
April 2026
cARE (core Artistic Research Ensemble)
Philosophy on Stage #6: Notebook of the Heart
April - May 2026
DARUM (Victoria Halper & Kai Krösche)
Auflösung
May - June 2026
Nesterval
Nestervals Nibelungen: Donaugold
June 2026
Karin Pauer & Aldo Giannotti
FOR NOW
June 2026
Queereeoké
Unmute yourself!
June 2026
BRUT HARD SOFT KISSEN After Pride Edition with KISSEN, GATAFIERA (live) & DJ Sets by anxxxious_t, aua&angst, yves, Dia, Shepperd, nas.delphine

studio brut

not accessible

Zieglergasse 25, 1070 Wien
Subway: U3 (Zieglergasse), Tram: 49 (Westbahnstraße / Zieglergasse)
not accessible

March 2026
Cat Jimenez
ruins of a shell
March 2026
Carolina Cappelli
B-MOVIES
April 2026
Frans Poelstra
THIS MOMENT WITH YOU

Bears in the Park Art Place

not accessible

Eyzinggasse 12, 1110 Vienna
U-Bahn: U3 (Gasometer) Bus: 72A (Gasometer), 76A, 76B (Simoningplatz)
not accessible

March 2026
Handle with care feat. Huggy Bears Part 1 & 2
March 2026
Handle with care feat. Huggy Bears Part 3 & 4
March 2026
10 Years of Huggy Bears

WUK performing arts

barrierefrei

Währinger Straße 59, 1090 Vienna
Subway: U6 (Währinger Straße / Volksoper), Tram: 40, 41, 42 (Währinger Straße / Volksoper), 5, 33 (Spitalgasse), 37, 38, 40, 41, 42 (Spitalgasse / Währinger Straße)

March 2026
Viktor Szeri
unseen
March 2026
Closing Cocktail

Der Betrieb

accessible

Vogelweidplatz 13, 1150 Wien
Subway: U6 (Burggasse-Stadthalle) / Bus: 48A (Moeringgasse) / Tram: 9 (Camillo Sitte Gasse)

April - May 2026
Der Betrieb / Alexander Gottfarb
The Season of Narratives