This get-together is directed to all those who are keen to find out how to move through a festival – in an environment that actively caters to issues of accessibility and differing needs.

Our main focus will be the imagetanz, a festival designed to show what is new in choreography and performance and scheduled from 04 to 28 March mainly at brut nordwest. Let’s get acquainted with the various spaces at brut nordwest so we can use them safely and without assistance during the festival.

During a guided touch-and-tell tour, we will explore the sensory regulation room and the resting room – spaces to which we can retreat anytime to regulate ourselves – or just be! Playful, low-barrier formats will invite us to get to know each other and maybe have a little chat.

Eventually, we will try the festival curators’ favourite cakes while learning more about the upcoming programme. You might even meet a festival buddy who fancies to visit a show with you.

Let’s get together to see what happens. But most of all: Let’s have fun together!

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.