Europe's largest contemporary dance festival is turning Vienna into the hub of the international dance elite from July 16 to August 16. The program is top-quality, those hungry for movement are offered over 200 workshops, and the festival lounge becomes a meeting point during the long summer nights. The ImPulsTanz Vienna International Dance Festival is simply the place to find all important professional dancers, choreographers and teachers that exist today in the world.
The ImPulsTanz makes Vienna a center for artistic encounters, inspiration and movement in every sense of the word –to be moved by the performances, to move through the versatile world of dance and to get moving in one or more of the numerous ImPulsTanz workshops.
This year, the ImPulsTanz seizes new territories and new sounds even before the official start. Dance becomes music, music becomes performance and the Viennese Museum of art history places its flagstones to the proposal of a dancing stage. On July 12, David Zanbraono performs his Under-de-Colors at an extraordinary location: the Kunsthistorisches Museum (Viennese museum of art history). In his performance, taking place within the frames of the finissage of the exhibition Raum und Zeit (Space and Time) he is accompanied by the Austrian Jazz-musician Max Nagl.
And on July 15, just one evening before the official opening, Kerstin Kussmaul and Jan Burkhardt at the new newly opened Novomatic Forum are presenting a 21-hour marathon performance, titled Vexation: we call it work. This is a 840-times repetition of Erik Saties musical creation Vexation, embedded in an impressive space concept. Here, top DJs are creating a true party ambiance with a "Bollywood" theme while dance movies are shown under the title Dancing Pictures on thirteen evenings.
| Tony Award winner Savion Glover ("the world finest tap dancer" according to Bill Clinton) will open this year's ImPulsTanz Festival in the main court of the Viennese MuseumsQuartier with an electrifying performance, supported by his co-hoofers Marshall Davis Jr. and Cartier Williams and accompanied by 4 jazz musicians from New York City. Only four days later, the 3 top-hoofers will present their performance Bare Soundz in which they create a new musical genre through tap dance. | Savion Glover in Bare Soundz |
nieuwZwart with Ultima Vez | From July 16 on, Europe's biggest dance festival presents a number of new creations: starting with the Grande-dame of Belgian choreography Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker and her Compagnie Rosas, who bring to Vienna a new creation named The Song, for nine men and one woman, that bespeaks the imminence of a time when our ever-increasing speed of change out-runs itself and affects the human body. This is followed by a world premiere –Davis Freeman's piece Investment that takes a critical look at consumption– and the new creation of Wim Vandekeybus and his company Ultima Vez called nieuwZwart. |
Also French choreography icon Maguy Marin enriches this summer's programme with her newest creation that comes to Vienna directly after its world premiere in Avignon.
While Jan Fabres with his Orgy of Tolerance reveals the decay of the human race as well as the war and the terror of the guild of consumers, Davis Freeman of the Compagnie Liquid Loft turns tables. His performance Investment that premieres during the first week of ImPulsTanz, playfully examines the serious issues of consumerism, culture, politics and the environment from the point of view of the investor: "It's a dance piece, a theatre piece and possibly an advertisement for the lottery itself."
There again the French choreographer Mark Tompkins with his Compagnie I.D.A., strikes slightly other notes: not only he presents his piece Empty Holes but also gives a live concert. His voice is as wicked as his appearance will be, because his kings & queens is a karaoke concert including a drag show –Mark Tompkins does it "My Way"!
The Austrian choreographer Chris Haring and his group Liquid Loft, winner of the Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale 2007, worked with the most iridescent protagonist of the Chinese dance scene, Jin Xing, and her company, the Dance Theatre of the Shanghai Oriental Arts Center. The result of that collaboration, the Lovely Liquid Lounge is also one of the brand new productions of this year's program. Here they investigate the meaning of gender roles, social regulations, the design of life and its' surface, that become manifest in the human body. The China Project is the main performance within this Lounge-set that gives the chance to get to know the Chinese choreographer Jin Xing, read Virgina Woolf's Orlando's poetry on Stephanie Cummings' body and question la Mode Franaise and the machinery of fashion design.
| ImPulsTanz not only shows new works but also puts the path-breaking classics of contemporary dance on stage, as Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker's world-famous dance piece Rosas danst Rosas in which the internationally acclaimed dance artist herself will dance live on stage. Beside her newest creation, Maguy Marin will also present her masterpieces MayB -inspired by Samuel Beckett, the master of absurd theatre and reckoned as the piece performed most often in the history of contemporary dance- and the company's latest creation Umwelt that comes to Vienna after its premiere at the Festival of Avignon. | Keersmaeker's Rosas danst Rosas |
Xavier Le Roy's Self-Unfinished | Xavier Le Roy enriches the performance program of ImPulsTanz with his conceptual dance classic Self-Unfinished that was created exactly ten years ago and –along with the works of Jrme Bel created up to then- regarded as a fundamental challenge to dance since it operates without any conventional dance movements. In Le Sacre du Printemps –also shown at ImPulsTanz this summer– Le Roy conducts his audience through Igor Strawinskys creation of the same name and follows the expressive movements of conductor Sir Simon Rattle down to the very last detail of his mimics and posture. |
| Headed by world-famous choreographer Jir Kylin, masterful dance improviser Michael Schumacher and Sabine Kupferberg, icon of the legendary Nederlands Dans Theater (NDT) put their eye on the private rather than the public. They come together with four more dancers in an "artistic reunion" of former greats of the NDT for Last Touch First, a piece that shows, the despair, the madness and the loneliness of the individual –directly inspired by the plays of the Russian author Anton Chekov. Unhurriedly, as if in slow motion, the characters of the piece are moving in a 19th century-like atmosphere, reminiscent of the grotesque plays by the Russian author. | Last Touch First |
The works of the next generation of international dance artists will be shown at [8:tension] Young Choreographers' Series. Within the series, eight emerging artists, who are at the beginning of their international career, show their works during ImPulsTanz -among them four former danceWEB-scholarship holders: Cecilia Bengolea and Francois Chaignaud turn into Sylphides, which is their literal reincarnation attempt, while Pieter Ampe and Guilherme Garrido are searching for synchronisation and harmony but it rapidly became clear that what they are dancing is a Still difficult duet.
Also within the series, the Indian choreographer Preethi Athreya approaches absurdity and beauty of life by the means of fragile porcelain sculptures, while David Wampach in Auto masterfully plays with construction and deconstruction of illusion.
Life is nothing but a disaster exercise -at least so in Andrea Bozic's startling group piece Nothing can surprise us, presenting an intelligent, humorous balancing act by means of movement, language and video between fiction and reality; it plays with strategies of fictionalising one's life and how these scenarios become real through the process of rehearsing them.
" hspace=0 src="http://www.onculture.eu/articlefiles/956-6132-19.jpg" width=220 align=left>Andrea Maurer and Thomas Brandsttter experiment on transferring sequential art (comics, stop-motion) into a choreographic, installative practice -just as if they were crafts people of the choreography trade- with their piece Performance must go ->, while Colette Sadler tries to blur the borders between what is real and what is not and deals with the Making of Doubt.
At the beginning of August, Michikazu Matsune and David Subal bring the White House, the Imperial Palace of Tokyo or the Pyramids of Gizeh to Vienna: by the means of a video-installation, their project One hour standing for... deals with mass tourism and its possible collapse. It will be opened by a live-performance on August 3, and shown up from August 4 to 9 at the Kunsthalle Wien –project space.
Absolutely in the here and now the French choreographer Alain Buffard moves at ImPulsTanz 2009 – in his performance Les Inconsols he takes Goethes tragical ballad Erlknig as a leading figure for a parable of the violence about an initial trauma and its recurrent (phantom)-pictures of sharp and irredeemable contradiction.
Last but not least: ImPulsTanz offers 200 workshops from the most different sections of dance for beginners and pros from the age of 4 up to 94 years alike. Renowned instructors, like Ismael Ivo, Terence Lewis, Bruce Ykanji, Jermaine Browne or David Dorfman, offer around 170 different courses with a wide spectrum including Yoga, Pilates, Bollywood, Modern Dance, HipHop, Contemporary and many more.
Within the Research Series well-known dancers like Maguy Marin, Benot Lachambre, Trajal Harrel & Sarah Sze or Boris Charmatz, whose workshop will even result in a performance at ImPulsTanz, are working with young professional dancers. The application for the ImPulsTanz Coaching Projects, Pro Series and Choreographer's Ventures is already possible.
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