BUZZING around
for neurodivergent, blind and visually impaired audiences hosted by Elena Lach & Ema Benčíková
BUZZING around is an invitation to discover the theatre space in your own time and using all your senses: at a scent buffet, a touch tour and the subsequent concert performance BUZZ. While festival-ing usually means a lot of hustle and bustle, we keep it playful and relaxed!
To start with, the scent buffet will offer plenty of opportunity to sniff, combine, guess or just enjoy. Why not play a game of scent charades? We will move through the various scents of the room, be impressed and take our time to settle in.
BUZZING around will continue with a touch tour at 19:00 and finally tanz.sucht.theater’s concert performance BUZZ, which is scheduled to start at 20:00. The show will then be followed by a Q&A with artists from the production.
That’s a lot, but don’t worry, there will be plenty of downtime between the touch tour and the start of the show. Even before, feel free to take breaks and come back whenever you like, according to your own needs.
Join us, you are kindly invited!
Elena Lach (they/she) lives in Vienna and works as a performer, personal assistant and director’s assistant. They research the queer use of public spaces under the name of SPACE HOLDER, helping neurodivergent people to access queer parties, so far at flucc and 4lthangrund. As part of the Careful Collisions Collective, Elena Lach designs queer movement spaces for contact improvisation. They love questions and non-verbal communication and practice social idiosyncrasy as a survival strategy and a way to conduct relationships. In the autumn of 2025, Elena Lach, together with Ema Bencikova, hosted a workshop entitled Spacing in: Relaxed Performance Lab for autistic and neuroqueer persons as part of accessible brut.
Ema Bencikova (she/they) is a Vienna-based curator, theatre director and care worker. In their artistic research, they concentrate on a critical phenomenology of non-normative embodiment using methods of institutional constructivism and infrastructural analysis of assistance within trans and crip communities. From 2019 to 2024, they headed the Stopy Snov neurodivergent community theatre in Bratislava. In 2025, they curated exhibitions at the ŠKUC Gallery in Ljubljana and the Kunsthalle Exnergasse in Vienna. Also, Ema Bencikova received a scholarship from the intersectional organisation ‘kültüř gemma!’ In the autumn of 2025, together with Elena Lach, they hosted a workshop entitled Spacing in: Relaxed Performance Lab for autistic and neuroqueer persons as part of accessible brut.
Accessibility
Registration for assistants, attendants and support dogs can be done via our registration form, by e-mailing barrierefreiheit@brut-wien.at or by calling +43 1 587 8774.
For everybody to find their way to brut nordwest, we offer a pick-up service at the close-by tram stations prior to the shows. Please give us a heads-up by e-mailing barrierefreiheit@brut-wien.at or calling +43 1 587 8774 and we will be happy to pick you up!
Tactile guidance system
Alternative seating and lying options
Stim toys
Resting room
Sensory regulation room
In the case of questions, please contact us by e-mailing barrierefreiheit@brut-wien.at or calling +43 1 587 8774.
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Dates & Tickets
Registrations apply for BUZZING around and the touch tour afterwards. Tickets for the concert performance BUZZ must be booked separately.
Audioflyer for the brut accessible programme:
March 2026
Pay as you can. Registration via the ticket button
brut nordwest
Nordwestbahnstraße 8-10, 1200 Vienna
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