Festivals
imagetanz 2026
From 04 to 28 March, imagetanz will be showing new works by international and local artists, including LIFT Tanzkollektiv, Cat Jimenez, tanz.sucht.theater, Carolina Cappelli, gergő d. farkas, Viktor Szeri and many more. brut accessible complements the festival with formats by Elena Lach and Ema Benčíková. On top, Huggy Bears and Selin Baran invite you to showings and events. We will bring the festival to a perfect close with a DJ set by Yinna.
Tickets are available now!
imagetanz 2025
Festival for new choreography and performance
15.03.2025 - 12.04.2025
In March and April, it’s imagetanz time again at brut Wien! From 15 March to 12 April 2025, the renowned festival will present a varied programme with new positions in choreography and performance. At brut nordwest, studio brut, WUK performing arts, Bears in the Park Art Place, FLUCC Deck and Palais Rössl, international and local artists and collectives will present a diverse programme with world and Austrian premieres. Workshop formats, discussions, studio visits, artist talks and parties complement the festival.
With Stina Fors, Imani Rameses, maria mercedes, Hyeji Nam, Ariadne Randall (feat. McKenzie Wark), Malika Fankha, Seba Kayan and many more.
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imagetanz 2024
News on Choreography and Performance
05.03.2024 - 24.03.2024
March 5th – 24th
March is imagetanz time! Over the course of three weeks, the festival at brut will be presenting a variety of new takes on choreography and performance. At three venues – brut nordwest, studio brut and WUK – international as well as local artists and collectives show a diverse programme made up of numerous shows, some of them world premieres. With workshop formats, panel discussions, a tactile introduction, a film screening and a conference under the title The Art of Access: Creating and Shaping Accessibility, the brut barrierefrei series focuses on questions about the conditions, incentives and artistic practices of accessibility in the performing arts. Studio visits, artist talks, and a festival party complete the 2024 imagetanz schedule. Oh, and by the way: It’s the festival’s 35th birthday this year. Happy Birthday!
Choreographic Platform Austria
19.10.2023 - 21.10.2023
Thu 19 – Sat 21 October 2023
brut, Festspielhaus St. Pölten, Tanzquartier Wien
With Alix Eynaudi, Veza Fernández, Philipp Gehmacher, Florentina Holzinger, Hungry Sharks, Liquid Loft, Mzamo Nondlwana, Karin Pauer, Amanda Piña/nadaproductions, Michael Turinsky, Doris Uhlich, CieLAROQUE/helene weinzierl, Navaridas/Deutinger/Riegler
imagetanz 2023
News on Choreography and Performance
02.03.2023 - 01.04.2023
March 2nd to 25th
we show you what you can't see – In March brut presents for three weeks new positions in choreography and performance as part of the imagetanz festival. 17 local and international artist(-collectives) will present a varied programme of world premieres, Austrian premieres and studio visits at different venues.
imagetanz 2022
News on Choreography and Performance
04.03.2022 - 26.03.2022
In March, the imagetanz festival once again presents a diverse three-week programme with new positions in choreography and performance. Five world premieres by local and international artists, an Austrian premiere at the festival opening, studio visits and artist talks ensure a varied festival programme.
imagetanz 2021
Emotional Support Festival
Presenting international guest performances, dance premieres by young artists from Vienna and across Austria, studio visits, workshops and talks, the imagetanz festival marks a beloved March highlight of brut’s programme. Even though planning is not the easiest thing to accomplish at the moment – for reasons known all too well –, we hereby declare that imagetanz 2021 will take place! While it will be somewhat different in shape and duration, its way of being experimental, young, new, international and exciting will be unaffected. We called this instalment the Emotional Support Festival because we know how hard these times are – for many of us, all over the world. That’s why we’re here, that’s why we keep going: We will be improvising, we will be digital and we will use hybrid formats to actually get involved with this present in order to shape it instead of just leaving it to itself.
imagetanz 2020
postponed but not cancelled
03.10.2020 - 28.02.2021
Four imagetanz premieres will also be rescheduled in October and November - other festival projects, which should have originally taken place in March 2020, will follow in winter and spring 2021.
imagetanz 2019 – dancing 30 years ahead
30 Years of News on Choreography and Performance
08.03.2019 - 30.03.2019
The year 1989 marked major political changes, the legendary David Hasselhoff concert in Berlin and the invention of the world wide web. But did you know it was also the year imagetanz was established? For its 30th anniversary, the festival presents a colourful three-week programme presenting new takes on choreography and performance. World premieres featuring local artists, international guest performances, studio visits, talks and parties will make up an exciting festival programme. This year’s festival centre with the main venues will be located at Atelier Augarten in Vienna’s 2nd district. Additional venues include Dschungel Wien and studio brut.
imagetanz 2018 – Reflections
What’s New in Choreography and Performance
02.03.2018 - 24.03.2018
By a diverse three-week programme this March, the imagetanz festival will present a variety of current takes on choreography and performance. Five premieres by local artists and two international guest performances will be completed by a multi-faceted outreach programme including twelve occasions on which festival artists invite the audience to join them for studio visits, workshops, talks and parties.
Writing workshop imagetanz 2018
During the imagetanz festival, students in their 4th year of the bachelor course dance at MUK university will leave their familiar terrain and will become observers and critics of the imagetanz productions. Selected texts will be published here during the festival.
imagetanz 2017
What’s new in Choreography
03.03.2017 - 25.03.2017
In March, imagetanz Festival is back at brut, with a diverse, three weeks long program presenting new artistic works in choreography and performance! Many exciting premieres and cooperations with local artists, outstanding international guest performances and an outreach program with studio visists, discussions, warm-ups and regulars' table is awaiting the audience! The artists invited this year propose alternative ties with the past and alternative strategies of staging it.
imagetanz 2016
What's new in Choreography and Dance
03.03.2016 - 18.03.2016
It’s March again, and it’s time for imagetanz! The 2016 edition of the festival focuses on a fundamental question: how can artists initiate a change in their own communities, neighbourhoods, cities? Do they have this power only through their artworks, or can the artists themselves induct a positive change just through their presence? >>>More
FEEDBACK 4th edition
Platform of the current dance and performance scene in Austria from the perspective of Tanzquartier Wien and brut Wien
24.04.2017 - 27.04.2017
This year’s edition of FEEDBACK is again also collating the various positions from the previous season of the Austrian dance and performance scene into a festival. In cooperation between the Tanzquartier Wien and brut Wien this provides the chance to admire outstanding works from the local performance scene afresh and also to make them accessible to an international expert audience in concentrated form.
Freischwimmer
02.12.2016 - 07.12.2016
The Freischwimmer Fesitival is an international platform for new-comers, presenting contemporary artistic approaches by young artists from the independent theatre, dance and performance scene every other year. The festival is mutually organised and curated by brut Wien, Sophiensæle Berlin, Forum Freies Theater Düsseldorf, Künstlerhaus Mousonturm Frankfurt am Main and Gessnerallee Zurich.
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
studio brut
not accessible
Zieglergasse 25, 1070 Wien
Subway: U3 (Zieglergasse), Tram: 49 (Westbahnstraße / Zieglergasse)
not accessible
Bears in the Park Art Place
not accessible
Eyzinggasse 12, 1110 Vienna
U-Bahn: U3 (Gasometer) Bus: 72A (Gasometer), 76A, 76B (Simoningplatz)
not accessible
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)
Der Betrieb
accessible
Vogelweidplatz 13, 1150 Wien
Subway: U6 (Burggasse-Stadthalle) / Bus: 48A (Moeringgasse) / Tram: 9 (Camillo Sitte Gasse)