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It's imagetanz time again! This year's imagetanz festival opened yesterday! brut is looking forward to three exciting weeks of news on choreography and performance. Artists and collectives will present a programme of (world) premieres, workshop formats, discussion rounds and studio visits.

Aesthetics and conditions of accessibility; access dramaturgy, creative audio description and tactile guidances, Sign Language and surtitling, designing caring, sustainable structures, breaks, snacks, and rooms for retreat – all this and more was on schedule on March 16th as part of the imagetanz festival.

Aesthetics and conditions of accessibility; access dramaturgy, creative audio description and tactile guidances, Sign Language and surtitling, designing caring, sustainable structures, breaks, snacks, and rooms for retreat – all this and more was on schedule on March 16th as part of the imagetanz festival. Not just because it’s nice and exciting, creates new and innovative things, and on various levels enriches processes in art and society at large, but also because uninhibited access on all levels is a basic right of disabled, chronically ill, crip, neurodivergent, deaf, hearing-impaired, blind, and visually impaired people. Hosts: Tanja Erhart & Julischka Stengele / Gutests: Pam Eden, Eva Egermann & Cordula Thym, Katharina ‘Senki’ Senk, Liv Schellander, Noa Winter

This year's artwork for imagetanz by Charlie Engman tease out visual possibilities, opening up new spaces between reality and fiction. His playful images deal with transformations and the sculptural potential of actions. The images were created by Engman using AI.

With La notte è il mio giorno preferito by Annamaria Ajmone, imagetanz Festival 2023 opened on March 2. Until March 25 brut shows news on choreography and performance. Christine Miess captured the impressions of the evening for us in atmospheric pictures.

For the opening of this year's imagetanz festival, Kiki House of Dive invited for the first time to a Kiki Ball at brut.

We celebrated the closing of this year's imagetanz festival on March 25 under the disco balls at brut nordwest together with festival visitors, artists and dance enthusiasts. A big thank you to A party called JACK, who provided the sound for this closing party with Flo Real & JP Bechamel and the singer GIANNA!

The imagetanz festival 2022 opened with SHE LEGEND by Rykena/Jüngst on March 4th and at brut nordwest and all over Vienna the motto until March 26th is: Feed the Dance! Christine Miess captured the impressions in beautiful pictures for us.

The performance artist Stina Fors transforms her mouth into a theatre. In the interview you can learn more about her understanding of communication, her needs for a rehearsal process and the power of imagination.

This year's imagetanz subjects by Maisie Cousins combine the beautiful with the grotesque.

FROM MARCH 6th: In SHE LEGEND, the choreographer duo Rykena/Jüngst embarks on a search for the queer potential of the comic world, its superheroes and their choreographic translations onto the stage. A recording of the piece in the 2019/20 version can be viewed here until March 26 (also with an English audio description).

Lisa Rykena und Carolin Jüngst sprechen über Popkultur, das Durchbrechen von Stereotypen und empfehlen ihre Lieblingscomics.

CHICKS* sprechen über die Arbeit im Kollektiv, den Ballsaal ihrer Träume und den Tanz der Zukunft.

L-INKED/THE SOLO Teaser: Jaskaran Anand talks about his inspiration, desires and the process which led to his performance L-INKED/THE SOLO.

Mzamo Nondlwana about concepts of community, sharing visions as inspiration and negotiating the future.

Toilet artist Zoe Gudović transforms the brut toilets during imagetanz 2022 into a temporary living room. We spoke about the themes of her artistic works and the toilet as temple.

The dancer Cat Jimenez presents the performance losing face together with three other artists as part of imagetanz. Here she describes how the themes of racism, trauma and colonialism can be expressed performatively. Can dance change society?

Fabian Faltin und Adam Dekan haben eine geführte Tour durch brut nordwest entworfen. Wie sie auf diese Idee gekommen sind, was euch bei dem Rundgang möglicherweise erwartet und was sie auf dem Gelände schon alles entdeckt haben, erzählen die Beiden in diesem Interview.

Die Liebe zum Theater, ihre Studien der Bühnengestaltung und Transmedialer Kunst haben Sara-Lisa Bals zur Performancekunst geführt. In ihrer neuen Arbeit vereint sie ihre unterschiedlichen Arbeitsfelder und entwickelt einen performativen Gedichtband.

Maggessi/Morusiewicz are combining their interests in their collective work on the content-related and formal level. Their shared interest in wormholes will be the topic of their contribution to this year’s imagetanz Festival.

Wie können Berührung und Narration sich in Gesten, Worten, Klang, Affekt und Raum verflechten? Mit dieser Frage haben sich verena herterich und Oravin beschäftigt. Präsentiert wird ihr Arbeitsprozess im Rahmen der Reihe Handle with care featuring HUGGY BEARS.

Luca Bonamore und Francesca Valeria Karmrodt geben dem brut-Publikum im Rahmen der Reihe Handle with care Einblicke in ihren Probenprozess. Welche Rolle die Dating Show Herzblatt dabei spielt, ist in diesem Interview nachzulesen.

Lisa Bunderla und Alina Bertha sprechen über ihren Weg zur Performancekunst, ihre kollektive Arbeitsweise und welche Rolle Bibelreferenzen und der philosophische Begriff der Potenz in ihrem Showing im brut nordwest spielen werden.

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.

Our poster subjects by photographer Bubi Canal visually underline this year's motto of imagetanz: Emotional Support Festival

NEW ART ON ... LINE ALL SUMMER LONG: Julia Müllner’s performance is centred around the process of fermentation, a way of microbial transformation and preservation. While microbes negotiate their symbiotic long-term relationships, tentacular dances of a romancing mite become intertwined with costume textures and pulsate performatively while squinting to the rhythm created by sound artist Christa Wall. (VIDEO)

NEW ART ON ... LINE ALL SUMMER LONG: Three female artists jump from a (sur)face and delve into the exciting worlds of Tarot: In eleven. each print in the mud fills with honey, Agnes Schneidewind, Johanna Nielson and Marina Poleukhina draw inspiration from one of the trump cards, reading into it with all their senses and sentiments, including the subconscious and irrational ones. They dance, they draw, and they interact with a number of different objects in permanent circulation. (VIDEO)

"The Art of Assembly" ist eine neue brut-Reihe, in der Autor und Dramaturg Florian Malzacher mit wechselnden Gäst*innen aus Kunst, Politik und Gesellschaft über politisches Theater diskutiert. Anlässlich der dritten Ausgabe mit den Gäst*innen mit Jodi Dean (Politikwissenschaftlerin, New York) und Jonas Staal (Künstler, Athen/Rotterdam), die im Rahmen des imagetanz Festivals im März 2021 präsentiert wird, veröffentlicht brut im online Magazin einen Text von Florian Malzacher zum Thema „Theater als Versammlung“.

In ihrem Stück "Body of Knowledge – At Home" lässt die australische Theatermacherin, Regisseurin und lehrende Künstlerin Samara Hersch das Wiener Publikum per Telefon intime Gespräche mit Jugendlichen führen – über Sexualität, Scham und Sterblichkeit. The Gap hat sie ein Interview zu ihrer Produktion gegeben.

Kann Fermentieren eine politische Praxis sein? Die Choreografin Julia Müllner bringt ungeahnte (non)humane Symbiosen auf die Bühne ihres ersten Stückes.

Im Rahmen des imagetanz Festivals lädt Laura Stoll zu einem Online-Probenbesuch ins Huggy Bears Studio. Im Interview erzählt die Künstlerin von ihrer aktuellen Arbeit "Questionnaire Series" und ihre Erfahrungen als Medizinerin und Performancekünstlerin.

During imagetanz, the PUC collective invites the audience to an online rehearsal visit to the Huggy Bears studio. In an interview the members of the collective talk about their project "The first image was the outline of a shadow", their artistic practice and aesthetics.

Im Rahmen des imagetanz Festivals lädt die Künstlerin Susanne Songi Griem zu einem Online-Probenbesuch ins LE STUDIO. Im Interview erzählt sie von den Einflüssen, die ihrer Arbeit "Library of Unfinished Memories // Fisch und Schwan in Negligé" zugrunde liegen.

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.

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.

Jaskaran Anand’s performance "Around L-INKED" is part of this year’s imagetanz festival edition. In an interview he talks about his project, the role gender and sexuality play in his artistic work and what dance really means to him.

During imagetanz, artist Frida Robles invites the audience to an online rehearsal visit to Huggy Bears studio. In an interview she talks about her project "Sessions with Frida. A performance on the possibilities of healing", the intersections between art and psychoanalysis as well as the concept of healing through art.

Im Rahmen des imagetanz Festivals lädt das Duo maria mercedes zu einem Online-Probenbesuch ins Huggy Bears studio. Im Interview erzählen die beiden Künstlerinnen von ihrer aktuellen Arbeit "Ballade" und wie sie als Duo zusammenarbeiten.

Johanna Nielsons, Agnes Schneidewinds und Marina Poleukhinas "eleven. each print in the mud fills with honey" ist Teil des diesjährigen imagetanz Festivals. Im Interview erzählen die drei Künstler*innen von ihrer Arbeit und wie ihr Projekt entstanden ist.

Mathea Magdalena, a transgender artist interested in creating interactive visual and performative spaces, situations and environments with an interdisciplinary approach, share their letter for later inspired by Lau Lukkarila's "Nyxxx".

Queer non-binary performing artist Mzamo Nondlwana writes a letter inspired by "Oxy Moron" to the future and to the Hottentot Venus.

Student at the theatre, film and media studies department of the University of Vienna Eszti Zala and Performer Alex Bailey share their thoughts on Alex Franz Zehtbauer's "wet dreaming at 52Hz"

Contributions by Fabian Faltin / Daphna Horenczyk / Hyeji Nam & mirabella paidamwoyo dziruni / Rhizomatic Circus Collective

The opening of the festival for took place this year in the Ankersaal of the Brotfabrik in Favoriten. The festive opening included the performances "Panflutes and Paperwork" by Ingrid Berger Myhre and Lasse Passage and "Again the Sunset" by Inga Huld Hákonardóttir. © Franzi Kreis

Liv Schellander, dance and performance artist, choreographer and facilitator shares her thoughts about the opening performance of this years imagetanz "Again the Sunset" by Inga Huld Hákonardóttir.

Performer and writer Claire Lefévre adresses her letter about "Panflutes and Paperwork" to Ingrid Berger Myhre, whose work she encountered in the past.

Interview with Ingrid Berger Myhre & Lasse Passage

Interview with Inga Huld Hákonardóttir

Interview with Malika Fankha

Interview with Lau Lukkarila

Interview mit Charlotta Ruth und Dominik Grünbühel

Interview with Asher O’Gorman

Interview mit hannsjana

Interview mit Inge Gappmaier

Interview mit Claudia Lomoschitz

Interview with Alex Franz Zehetbauer & Guests

Three questions to Fabian Faltin / Daphna Horenczyk /Hyeji Nam & mirabella paidamwoyo dziruni / Rhizomatic Circus Collective

Drei Fragen an Tanja Erhart & Katharina Senk und Julia Müllner

Three questions to Claire Lefèvre

Student at the theatre, film and media studies department of the University of Vienna Lara Cortellini shares her thoughts on Zoë Schreckenberg's "After Getting Up and Before Lying Down".

Choreographer, performer and writer Claire Lefèvre shares her thoughts about the imagetanz performance "Oxy Moron" by Malika Fankha.

Performer and choreographer Evandro Pedroni shares his thoughts about Sophia Hörmann's GLOWING current moods.

Choreographer, director and dancer Christine Gaigg and dancer Alja Ferjan share their thoughts on Elina Pirinen's "Brume de Mer" .

The performers Marcus Fisch and Dorothea Zeyringer share their thoughts about "Volume" by Jasmin Hoffer / Sara Lanner / Liv Schellander.

Wera Hippesroither, PhD student and scientific project staff at University of Vienna, shares her thoughts about Asher O'Gorman's "the way of ink ••º• – a performative ceremony celebrating the dynamics of human and non-human bodies"

Performer Denise Palmieri and choreographer, performer and writer Claire Lefèvre share their thoughts about the imagetanz performance "sans culottes" by Robyn/Hugo Le Brigand.

Dancer and choreographer Deborah Hazler shares her thoughts about the imagetanz Handle with care featuring Inge Gappmaier – protect.

Tanzende Kiefer und nie gehaltene Münder: Drei Fragen an Jasmin Hoffer, Sara Lanner & Liv Schellander zu ihrer imagetant-Uraufführung "Volume".

Bipolare Neigungen, kulturelle Hierarchien und Alltagsrassismus – Drei Fragen an Cat Jimenez & Maiko Sakurai Karner zu ihrer imagetanz-Uraufführung WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE?

"Wet dreaming at 52Hz" translates the science of the whale experience into the abstract. With this performance, Alex searches for what it would mean to have the mind of a whale or to perform in a room full of whale-minded people.

Drei Fragen an Zoë Schreckenberg zu ihrer imagetanz-Uraufführung "nach dem Aufstehen und vor dem Liegen". Durch die Kombination des Hauptelements Körperbewegung mit live improvisierten elektronischen Klängen und dem skulpturalen Bühnenbild experimentiert die Performance mit Momenten des Übergangs.

Sophia Hörmann entwirft zu den Themen Selbstdarstellung und Erwartungshaltung ein Setting, in dem sie als Grenzgängerin buchstäblich durch Sphären und Emotionen gleitet.Drei Fragen an Sophia Hörmann zu ihrer imagetanz-Uraufführung "GLOWING current moods"

Choreographer and performer Philippe Riera and Scenography department of the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna Sophie Eidenberger share their thoughts on the imagetanz performance Maiko Sakurai Karner & Cat Jimenez – WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE?