Katharina ‘Senki’ Senk will devise the tactile introduction, advised by Theresa ‘Ray’ Scheinecker, an expert through personal experience.

Katharina Senk aka Senki (she/her) lives in Vienna as a white, female, non-disabled dance artist. She performed in pieces of, among others, Doris Uhlich, Florentina Holzinger, Sara Ostertag, Georg Blaschke, and Michael Turinsky. In her own creations, Katharina tries to combine her interest in post-humanism, pleasure, and intersectional feminism with her knowledge in the fields of dance, movement, and martial arts. Senki co-hosts the association tanz.sucht.theater with Maartje Pasman that has been a framework for many exciting creations in recent years considering the issue of accessibility on several levels and involving important companions such as Tanja Erhart. Since late 2022, Senki also engages in artistic audio description.

Theresa Scheinecker aka Ray (she/her) lives in Vienna as a white, disabled artist and psychologist. Ray was part of PARASOL (Tanzquartier Wien) in 2022 and has appeared in works by Ian Kaler, Alix Eynaudi, and Michael Turinsky. Ray’s movement language develops from various practices, such as urban styles, acrobatics, and contemporary.

Last year, drawing on her experience as a person with visual impairment, Ray entered the field of audio description, where she wants to share her perspective with the goal to create more accessibility for blind and visually impaired audiences in the dance/performance world.

Note

Participants are welcome to leave the room or to take a break at any time. The stage will be reorganized as a space for relaxation and retreat, where curtains, pillows and mattresses invite the audiences to linger and lay down.

*Early Boarding means that brut will provide sufficient time for everybody before the event to arrive, find a place, and get comfortable in the space with no rush. The brut entrance area will be the gathering point. brut staff is happy to assist you. Beanbag chairs and different seating possibilities will be available.

If you have any further questions regarding accessibility while arriving or during the event, please let us know at any time at: info@brut-wien.at