--- title: "Katarína Krupičková & Florentina Ebenbauer – To Beauty Behold" description: "The solo performance To Beauty Behold explores how grief, celebration, and acceptance can coexist in one space and within one person. Movements shift between contorted and light, moving from sadness and fragility to rage and anger, anger and humour. An orange fruit, symbolising childhood and…" image: "https://brut-wien.at/de/img/asset/YXNzZXRzL3Byb2R1Y3Rpb25zLzIwMjYtMjcvMjYxMV9LYXRhcmluYUtydXBpY2tvdmFfRmxvcmVudGluYUViZW5iYXVlci8yNl9wcmVzc2VfS2F0YXJpbmFLcnVwaWNrb3ZhX0Zsb3JlbnRpbmFFYmVuYmF1ZXJfVG8tQmVhdXR5LUJlaG9sZF9jX0hpcmFudGhhLUd1bmF0aGlsbGFrZV8yLmpwZw/26_presse_KatarinaKrupickova_FlorentinaEbenbauer_To-Beauty-Behold_c_Hirantha-Gunathillake_2.jpg?w=1200&h=630&fit=crop_focal&q=80&s=9705267ad6180df3d24aa709a88e52d9" --- 12–13 Nov [ Dates Dates ](#dates) # Katarína Krupičková & Florentina Ebenbauer To Beauty Behold 12–13 Nov - [Huggy Bears Days](https://brut-wien.at/en/series/huggy-bears-days) - Dance performance - World premiere ![Close-up of two hands touching a torn-open orange on a round stone surface. The fingers rest on the wet peel and exposed flesh of the fruit, while pieces of orange and traces of juice are spread across the stone. The hands look glossy and slightly smeared. The background is strongly blurred, keeping the focus on the touch, the texture of the orange and the surface of the stone.](https://brut-wien.at/assets/productions/2026-27/2611_KatarinaKrupickova_FlorentinaEbenbauer/26_presse_KatarinaKrupickova_FlorentinaEbenbauer_To-Beauty-Behold_c_Hirantha-Gunathillake_2.jpg) Katarína Krupičková & Florentina Ebenbauer – *To Beauty Behold* © Hirantha Gunathillake ## Event information ### Location [WUK performing arts – Saal](https://brut-wien.at/en/service/spielstaetten#location-wuk-performing-arts-saal-projektraum-foyer) ### Price 22 / 18 / 14 Euro ### Duration approx. 45 Min. ### Language English Share event ### Content Notes Open + The performance explicitly addresses grief and loss. The solo performance *To Beauty Behold* explores how grief, celebration, and acceptance can coexist in one space and within one person. Movements shift between contorted and light, moving from sadness and fragility to rage and anger, anger and humour. An orange fruit, symbolising childhood and nostalgia, connects the past and the present. A performer travels through space with shifting intentions and emotions, tracing how grief feels, where it resides, and how it moves through the body. What happens when grief becomes too vast for the body to contain? To move through it is to enter uncharted waters, searching for what cannot be understood from a distance. Was there a moment you missed? Is there a way of becoming that allows you to stay close to what you have lost? ‘Vždy mi na čelo nakreslila krížik, keď sme sa lúčili.’ ‘She’d always draw a cross on my forehead before saying goodbye.’ The title *To Beauty Behold* comes from a saying: to behold beauty is to recognise that you yourself embody the beauty – and its measure – you see in the world. You hold it in your eyes and in your heart, in the way your gaze shapes perception. You hold beauty in your hands as they gently touch the faces of others. ‘Vždy keď vidím niečo nádherné, spomeniem si na teba.’ ‘Every time I see something beautiful, I think of you.’ To carry beauty is to carry dreams, wishes and fragile hopes, like the wish made while blowing away a fallen eyelash – here and alive, until you are not. And when loss arrives, when someone deeply loved disappears, a storm rises. What remains is to feel all that you’re feeling, letting it race through you like lightning and thunder dancing in the sky. Grief shifts form – from devouring heaviness to rage, from brutality into celebration, into sparks of life itself, into the joy of dance and movement. The body goes through it all, bone-and-marrow deep, hands soaked in blood and tears. The self transforms into the version that has walked and run through struggle and pain. You can’t skip a step, can’t skip a stone; for the only way is head-on and through. ‘When I say *you*, who I really mean is *me*.’ Read more Read more about To Beauty Behold ## Dates - 12 Nov Thu Download the date of 12.11.2026 20:30 - 13 Nov Fri Download the date of 13.11.2026 20:30 ## Media ## Contributors ### Credits Choreography, Concept & Performance: Katarína Krupičková Sound design: Florentina Satu Ebenbauer Costume design: Mia Trotz Light design: Martin Schwab Outside eye: Minjung Sung A co-production by Bears in the Park, brut Wien and WUK performing arts Funded by the City of Vienna’s Department of Cultural Affairs (MA 7) and the Federal Ministry of Housing, Arts, Culture, Media and Sport (BMWKMS) ### [Katarína Krupičková](https://brut-wien.at/en/artists/katarina-krupickova) Katarína Krupičková (they/them) is a dancer from Slovakia who studied at the Anton Bruckner University in Linz. They have collaborated with artists such as Hannes Langolf, Johannes Wieland, Ryan Mason, Stella Zannou, and Jianan Qu. Katarína Krupičková has performed at various festivals, including The non-fungible body? Festival at the OK – Centre for Contemporary Art Linz (2022), and the Camping Asia Festival in Taipei (2023). Their work combines dance, spoken word and performance. [ Read more Read more ](https://brut-wien.at/en/artists/katarina-krupickova) ### [Florentina Satu Ebenbauer](https://brut-wien.at/en/artists/florentina-satu-ebenbauer) Florentina Satu Ebenbauer studies Jazz and Improvised Music at Anton Bruckner University, specialising in recording technology and music production. She is a member of the trio Brigött\*innen, whose debut EP *Mantis* was released in winter 2025, and leads her own project, SATU. As an artist, she enjoys working across disciplines, with a particular focus on collaborating with dancers alongside musicians. 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