tanz.sucht.theater
BUZZ
This body-concert for people of all visual abilities features a wide range from vibrating, upbeat songs all the way to mellow love songs. In BUZZ, the sounds of the bodies, movements and voices, supported by piano and electronic music, unfold into living textures. Dancers Maartje Pasman, Ray Scheinecker and Katharina Senk and musician Verena Zeiner transform dance and live music into an experimental multi-spectrum. Their bodies turn into instruments as sound becomes touch. Music and dance form an ensemble that makes the whole room vibrate and present a multi-sensual concert experience – powerful and gentle, poetic and exhilarating.
BUZZ is a multi-sensual body concert. Sound bodies meet and merge – sometimes gently, sometimes in a more straightforward manner. BUZZ invites audiences to get immersed in ballads stomped by feet; quiet moments where bodies listen to each other mesmerised; voices powerfully dancing through the room. As the four performers use all instruments at their disposal, voice, breath and dancing bodies in a dialogue with piano and electronic sounds unfold into complex, living textures. BUZZ is an experimental multi-spectrum of dance and music, in which the performers make the room vibrate and playfully challenge listening and viewing habits.
The collective tanz.sucht.theater, working in an interdisciplinary way, has for years created dance performances that consider access for disabled audiences on an artistic level and integrate the “Aesthetics of Access” as a fundamental building block of their artistic practice. In BUZZ, the collective explores non-visual aesthetics and deliberately gives them space.
Biographies
Maartje Pasman is a Dutch performer and artist with Indonesian roots, based in Vienna, where she lives and works. She has danced for choreographers such as Florentina Holzinger, Georg Blaschke and Sara Ostertag and was an ensemble member of De Dansers (Netherlands) and Dschungel Wien (Austria). Her artistic work has been honoured several times, including the STELLA*14 and STELLA*24 Award for Performers' Achievements and productions for young audiences. She has received various grants throughout her career, including the danceWEB scholarship from ImPulsTanz (2018), the Start scholarship from the Austrian Federal Chancellery (2018), and the Performance work scholarship from the City of Vienna (2023). She has been co-leading tanz.sucht.theater with Katharina Senk since 2020. www.maartjepasman.com
Ray Scheinecker is a clinical psychologist and performer based in Vienna. In 2022, she was part of PARASOL at Tanzquartier Wien. Ray has performed for the likes of Ian Kaler, Alix Eynaudi, Michael Turinsky, Silke Grabinger and Annie Hanauhe/Beweggrund Bern. Her movement experience is based on urban styles, acrobatics and contemporary dance. In recent years, Ray has increasingly drawn on her first-hand experience as a visually impaired person to raise awareness for how visual perception serves only one of many layers (even) in a theatre context.
Katharina Senk/Senki lives in Vienna as a white, female, non-disabled dance artist. She performed in pieces of Marina Abramović, Doris Uhlich, Florentina Holzinger, Sara Ostertag, Georg Blaschke and Michael Turinsky... Her own creations and collaborations tour in Austria and abroad. Senki co-leads tanz.sucht.theater together with artistic long-time companion Maartje Pasman. This collective has been a framework for many exciting creations in recent years that considered access on a multitude of levels. Since late 2022, Senki has also engaged in artistic audio description. In her spare time, she most enjoys Brazilian jiu-jitsu and strength training. www.katharinasenk.com
Verena Zeiner is pianist, composer and improviser. She plays in various ensembles in the broad field of modern creative jazz and improvised music, leads her own bands, composes for them as well as for chamber music ensembles and interdisciplinary projects in connection with dance, performance, visual arts etc. As a bandleader she has released several albums and received awards for her work as pianist and composer. Verena Zeiner is senior lecturer for improvisation at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna. From Sept. 2023 to June 2025 she was lecturer for the Free Jazz Ensemble and Jazz Composition at the Music and Arts University of the City of Vienna. www.verenazeiner.at
Accessibility
Registration for assistants, attendants and support dogs can be done via our registration form, by e-mailing barrierefreiheit@brut-wien.at or by calling +43 1 587 8774.
For everybody to find their way to brut nordwest, we offer a pick-up service at the close-by tram stations prior to the shows. Please give us a heads-up by e-mailing barrierefreiheit@brut-wien.at or calling +43 1 587 8774 and we will be happy to pick you up!
Tactile guidance system
Access friends
Alternative seating and lying options
Stim toys
Resting room
Sensory regulation room
In the case of questions, please contact us by e-mailing barrierefreiheit@brut-wien.at or calling +43 1 587 8774.
Credits
Dance, choreography, performance Maartje Pasman, Ray Scheinecker, Katharina Senk/Senki Music, composition, performance Verena Zeiner Creative producer, project coordinator Wibke Scheler Costume design/styling Alba Josefine Becker Set design Sebastian Spielvogel Lighting design Sveta Schwin Access dramaturgy Bine Kuxdorf Voice coaching Verena Giesinger Promotion photo Aaron Josi Sternbauer Press photos Hanna Fasching
A co-production by tanz.sucht.theater and imagetanz 2026/brut Wien
Funded by the City of Vienna’s Department of Cultural Affairs (MA 7) and the Austrian Federal Ministry of Housing, Art, Culture, Media and Sport (BMWKMS)
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Dates & Tickets
March 2026
22 € / 18 € / 14 € * Touch tour at 19:00
22 € / 18 € / 14 € * BUZZING around at 17:30, touch tour at 19:00 & artist talk after the show, moderation by: Julischka Stengele
22 € / 18 € / 14 € * Touch tour at 19:00
brut nordwest
Nordwestbahnstraße 8-10, 1200 Vienna
accessible
Info
On Thu. 19.03., Fri. 20.03. and Sat. 21.03., there will be touch tours at 19:00. Admission is free.
On Fri. 20.03., BUZZING around (hosted by Elena Lach & Ema Benčíková) will take place at 17:30. Also, the show will be followed by an artist talk (moderation: Julischka Stengele).
Content notes
The performance features loud and unexpected sounds as well as haze.