Cie. Willi Dorner

every-one

brut+ Gudrunstraße 88 / Ecke Hlawkagasse
Performance / Dance Vienna premiere without language
{urbanism} {uniformity} {Roaring Twenties}

Around Labour Day, brut will go out into the city and into public space with Willi Dorner’s performance every-one. A group of eight dancers will guide the audience to architectural landmarks in the 10th district, characterised by density, standardisation and uniformity.

, © Lisa Rastl

Willi Dorner, every-one

, © Lisa Rastl

Willi Dorner, every-one

, © Lisa Rastl

Willi Dorner, every-one

, © Lisa Rastl

Willi Dorner, every-one

The journey of every-one begins in the 1920s, when standardised, serialised, industrial mass production was established and thereby modern urban life was born. Drastic changes in art, science and politics contributed to the emergence of a new concept of humanity informed by standardisation and norm-based thinking. Viennese choreographer Willi Dorner draws a parallel between the 1920s and our present, which looks back on, and ahead to, fast developments and massive upheavals.

The type of dance promoted at the time reflects these developments on a formal level, in revues of considerable production value and girl-group vaudeville dances, in which the dancers with their uniformly shaped bodies became a symbol of a new collective being. These seemingly naïve, entertaining formation dances both hide and visualise a principle of achievement that has altogether economised and internalised life. Willi Dorner picks up on material from various revues and intensifies it into a public-space choreography impressively showcasing the aesthetic idea of serialisation.

Willi Dorner lives and works as a choreographer in Vienna, where he established his company, Cie. Willi Dorner, in 1999. His oeuvre involves stage shows and site-specific performances shown worldwide but also a keen interest in photography, film, animation and installations. Willi Dorner creates projects that grant audiences the opportunity for new experiences, insights and a differentiated perception of everyday life. His interdisciplinary works are created in collaboration with artists and scientists from a great variety of fields. Cie. Willi Dorner has been invited to festivals and venues such as the Vienna Festival, Festival de Marseille, Festival TransAmériques Montreal, Dance Umbrella London, Tanz im August Berlin, Theater der Welt Essen, Crossing the Lines New York, b:om Festival South Korea and, most recently with every-one, the Santiago a Mil festival in Chile.

In the brut programme, we show the company version with eight dancers. The trailer shows a bigger version with students from SEAD in Salzburg.

 

Limited number of participants, please register at tickets@brut-wien.at. Pay as you wish on location. The walk takes around 80 minutes. The meeting point is situated at Gudrunstraße 88 / Hlawkagasse.

 

Press reviews

„The spectrum of the completely synched performers reaches from songs like ‚Ich brauche keine Millionen‘ and captivating show moves to the beginnings of militarization and is shown in backyards, parking lots and parks – and they take interested residents with them as well as their fascinated audience.”, Kronenzeitung Steiermark

 

Credits

Concept, choreography Willi Dorner Performers Britt Kamper, Hugo Le Brigand, Emily Mézières, Christelle Nazarin, Raquel Odena, Stève Paulet, Esther Steinkogler, Luan de Lima da Silva Set/costume design Katharina Heistinger Assistant to set/costume designer Alba Marie Rastl Production management Stefanie Reichl, Emanuela Panucci

A co-production by Cie. Willi Dorner and Provinciaal Domein Dommelhof/Neerpelt, La Strada, Graz, Lieux publics, Centre national de création, Marseille and Festspielhaus St. Pölten. Funded by INSITU and the European Union’s cultural programme. With the kind support of the City of Vienna’s Department of Cultural Affairs. With support of La Briqueterie, Vitry-sur-Seine, Paris.

Dates & Tickets

April 2018

Mon. 30.04.2018, 18:00
brut + in the public space pay as you wish

May 2018

Tue. 01.05.2018, 18:00
brut + in the public spaceut + im öffentlichen Raum pay as you wish

brut+ Gudrunstraße 88 / Ecke Hlawkagasse
Gudrunstraße 88, 1110 Wien

October 2025
Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Sun
    01 02 03 04 05
06 07 08 09 10 11 12
13 14 15 16 17 18 19
20 21 22 23 24 25 26
27 28 29 30 31    

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

October 2025
Aperitivo
October 2025
Karin Pauer
LOW
October 2025
Matteo Haitzmann
Im Styx baden
November 2025
Veza Fernández
Chantal, the body is a text longing for perspective
November 2025
Aperitivo
November 2025
Elena Lach & Ema Benčíková
Spacing in: Relaxed Performance Lab
November 2025
DARUM (Victoria Halper & Kai Krösche)
[EOL]. End of Life
November 2025
Drag Show with the Dragsau Collective
November 2025
Touch tour
November 2025
Alex Franz Zehetbauer
An Evening with

studio brut

not accessible

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

October 2025
Lens Kühleitner & Olivia Hild
trace my layers, thrust your guts
October 2025
Aperitivo
November 2025
François-Eloi Lavignac
Fifth position
November 2025
Laureen Drexler & Giorgia Scisciola
PIERRE

Breitenseer Lichtspiele

not accessible

Breitenseer Straße 21, 1140 Vienna
U-Bahn: U3 (Hütteldorfer Straße) Tram: 10 (Laurentius Platz), 49 (Hütteldorfer Straße)

October 2025
Alex Franz Zehetbauer
An Evening with

Shop in the 4th district (Theresianumgasse 35)

not accessible

Theresianumgasse 35, 1040 Vienna
U-Bahn: U1 (Taubstummengasse) Bus: 13A (Belvederegasse)

October 2025
Jan Machacek & Angélica Castelló
every day display

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)

November 2025
Maria Mam & Flora Renhardt
sk8r grrrl
November 2025
Simone Lorenzo Benini & Miriam Budzáková
Sandpit