Networks
Be spectACTive!
Be SpectACTive! is a large-scale European cooperation project – co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union – which operates in performing arts through artistic productions and participatory practices aimed at involving the citizens and spectators in creative and organizative processes. Its members are European festivals, theatres, cultural organisations, universities and a research center.
FREISCHWIMMEN
Platform for performance and theatre
Freischwimmen is a production platform for performance and theatre, supported by brut Wien, FFT Düsseldorf, Gessnerallee Zürich, Schwankhalle Bremen, Sophiensæle Berlin, and Theater Rampe Stuttgart.
Festivals
imagetanz 2020
07.03.2020 - 28.03.2020
From March 7th to 28th, the festival imagetanz 2020, organized by brut Wien, presents news on choreography and performance.
With five world premieres and five Austrian premieres, the festival once again offers a dense performance programme. The focus is on local and international artists such as Malika Fankha, Asher O’Gorman, Claudia Lomoschitz, Lau Lukkarila, Alex Franz Zehetbauer, Inge Gappmaier, hannsjana and others completed studio visits, talks and workshops.
Following the current brut logic of a cultural activity moving through the city, this year’s three-week festival takes place all over Vienna. imagetanz starts in the Ankersaal in Favoriten and on the former Siemens site at Kempelenpark and is then present in the studio brut, in the Kosmos Theater, in the Erbsenfabrik Wien and at other venues.
The festival will open on Saturday, March 7th in the Ankersaal with a double evening with two international guest performances:
In their duet Panflutes and Paperwork, the Norwegian choreographer Ingrid Berger Myhre and the musician Lasse Passage explore the relationships between dance and music. What does that actually mean: "dance to music"? And how do you make danceable music? Panflutes and Paperwork is neither performance nor concert, but something new and in between.
Again The Sunset is also a hybrid form between concert and performance and examines the interaction of dance and live music. The Icelandic dancer Inga Huld Hákonardóttir and the French sound artist Yann Leguay throw movements, thoughts and tones at each other in perfect harmony and take the audience into a world of sound with sculptural approaches, formed from elementary materials such as wood, water and stone.
The ticket sale for imagetanz starts on February 11th, 2020.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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
Projects
Open Call: In the Field
A festival excursion with brut Wien and the Wiener Festwochen
22.02.2019 - 31.03.2019
In the Field is a format that is directed primarily at students and artists starting out in their profession and invites them to experience a theatre festival at first hand.
season start 2018/19
Save the date: October 11
With Gin Müller, irreality.tv, Nesterval, Claire Lefèvre, Fanni Futterknecht, Simon Mayer, Die Rabtaldirndln and many more!
All over Vienna has been the motto of the last months. Thanks for joining brut on a tour through 15 districts and 30 venues. The next season is coming up and here is a sneak preview on what is going to happen in and with brut this autumn. Our nomadic journey will continue a little longer – the renovation of Künstlerhaus is still lasting – and besides venues all over Vienna we will open the studio brut at Zieglergasse 25 as a permanent venue this autumn.
The Inheritance
Re-enacted works from the imagetanz archive 1989–2017
The imagetanz festival has existed in Vienna for more than 25 years now. It represented an important first step for many artists who are well-known in the Austrian dance scene today – it was here that some performers presented their very first pieces to the public. With The Inheritance, the upcoming imagetanz festival takes a look back at more than 25 years of dance history, creating a link to today’s young generation of artists.
Beginning of season 2017/18
Featuring Barbara Ungepflegt, Simon Mayer, Nesterval, notfoundyet/Laia Fabre & Thomas Kasebacher, Michikazu Matsune, Monsterfrau & Crystal Distortion, Gin Müller, Jan Machacek, Tiosha Bojorquez & Edwarda Gurrola, Alix Eynaudi u. v. m.
Doris Uhlich: All Machines Welcome!
A co-operation between brut and WUK performing arts
12.10.2016 - 24.10.2016
All Machines Welcome! presents new works by Doris Uhlich and takes place at both WUK and brut. Part of the co-operation are the premiere of Ravemachine at brut as well as the workshop Every Body Electric and the performance Ravemachine all over + Every Body Electric + Rave at WUK.
The Capitalism Tribunal
Is Capitalism a crime?
01.05.2016 - 12.05.2016
The Capitalism Tribunal is about the alleged crimes of European capitalism. From 1 to 12 May 2016, brut Wien will be transformed into a court of law, where charges will be presented on European capitalism - about its impact on people, society and the planet.
The Ineffable Me
Concert series featuring Bianca Casady & the C.i.A., Gazelle Twin and Mirel Wagner
19.11.2015 - 21.11.2015
„Can’t catch me, I’m syntax free, I’m preconceived, preternaturally […]“ Sonic Youth – The Ineffable Me
Three utterly different musicians visit brut for the concert series The Ineffable Me: Bianca Casady, one half of the artsy folk music duo CocoRosie, includes video art and choreography in her new solo project; electropop musician Gazelle Twin confronts the terrors of puberty in a hoodie; and Finnish artist Mirel Wagner plays gloomy blues music with a sub-pop touch. All three of them refuse to submit to the still male-dominated dictate of the pop industry, like to play with attributed identities and amaze by their ineffable, intractable musical creations.
19 November: Bianca Casady and the C.i.A.
20 November: Gazelle Twin
21 November: Mirel Wagner
Series
BRUTTO
BRUTTO is a concert series juxtaposing various artistic formats, styles, approaches and methods. A team of curators (Rania Moslam, Lisa Kortschak and Gregor Mahnert) presents small, fine shows of experimental music. But they don’t arbitrarily say ‘anything goes’, they ambitiously combine opposites and seeming opposites.
Guests at brut
One guest, two tables, 110 questions. A genially merciless interviewer provides insights into a country’s mentality. Guests at brut is a new regular series created by Graz-based company Theater im Bahnhof. In each episode, three different local personalities are thoroughly probed in 30-minute interviews. Pia Hierzegger asks them randomly drawn questions ranging from the current political situation to personal issues, thus unfolding a vivid selection of greatly varying insights, views and perspectives.
Co-operations
Wiener Festwochen
This year as well, brut is one stage of the Wiener Festwochen, which take place in May and June and combine cultural events with relevant goals and topics of the society.
Kooperation Kunsthalle Wien
The Promise of Total Automation
11.03.2016 - 29.05.2016
brut und Kunsthalle Wien kooperieren inhaltlich im Rahmen der Ausstellung The Promise of Total Automation, die vom 11. März bis 29. Mai zu sehen ist. Im Rahmen der Kooperation zeigt brut eine Performance des französischen Künstlers Philippe Decrauzat mit dem New Yorker Musiker Alan Licht sowie eine Arbeit der koreanischen Performancekünstlerin Geumhyung Jeong. Neben den beiden Performances gibt es ein Gespräch mit Philippe Decrauzat in der Kunsthalle Wien, eine Kuratorenführung durch die Ausstellung The Promise of Total Automation für brut-Publikum sowie gegenseitige Ermäßigungen.
Szene Bunte Wähne 2016
International Dance Festival for young audience
Ziel von SZENE BUNTE WÄHNE ist es, einem jungen Publikum die Vielfalt verschiedenster Theaterformen näher zu bringen. Das Festival wurde gegründet, um ein anspruchsvolles und abwechslungsreiches Programmangebot im Bereich Kunst und Kultur für Kinder und Jugendliche zu entwickeln. Seither hat sich das Theaterfestival zu einem der bedeutendsten jährlichen Treffpunkte für Theatermacher aus der ganzen Welt entwickelt.
Szene Bunte Wähne 2017
International Dance Festival for young audience
Ziel von SZENE BUNTE WÄHNE ist es auch in diesem Jahr, einem jungen Publikum die Vielfalt verschiedenster Theaterformen näher zu bringen. Das Festival wurde gegründet, um ein anspruchsvolles und abwechslungsreiches Programmangebot im Bereich Kunst und Kultur für Kinder und Jugendliche zu entwickeln. Seither hat sich das Theaterfestival zu einem der bedeutendsten jährlichen Treffpunkte für Theatermacher aus der ganzen Welt entwickelt.
Aktuelle Spielorte
studio brut, Zieglergasse 25, 1070 Vienna
studio brut
Zieglergasse 25, 1070 Wien
U-Bahn: U3 (Zieglergasse), Tram: 49 (Westbahnstraße / Zieglergasse)
brut at Austrian Museum of Folk Life and Folk Art
Laudongasse 15-19, 1080 Vienna
Tram: 5, 33 (Laudongasse, Lange Gasse), 43, 44 (Lange Gasse), Bus: 13A (Laudongasse)
brut at Vronihof
Veronikagasse 24, 1170 Wien
U-Bahn: U6 (Alserstraße), Tram: 44 (Hernalser Gürtel)
brut im ORF RadioKulturhaus, Studio 3
Argentinierstraße 30a, 1040 Wien
U-Bahn: U1 (Taubstummengase) Tram: D (Plößlgasse)
brut at Dschungel Wien
MuseumsQuartier Wien, Museumsplatz 1, 1070 Vienna
U-Bahn: U2 (Museumsquartier, Volkstheater), U3 (Volkstheater), Bus: 13A (Mariahilfer Straße / Stiftgasse), 57A (Burgring), Tram: 1, 2, 71, D (Burgring)