Dance Identity
Burgenland International Dance Festival
EISENSTADT, NOV 25TH
12:00 - 22:00
9 PERFORMANCES. 1TICKET. 20 EURO.
Dance Identity Festival is an introspection into the very nature of existence through the ephemeral language of dance. The nine productions selected can be seen both as performances and meditations, each challenging the paradigm of what dance can convey. They pose questions, prompting us to delve deep into the undercurrents of our collective psyche.
As a world in transit, our social tapestries are being continually woven, unraveled, and rewoven. 9 seamlessly programmed performances act as mirrors, reflecting broader societal shifts. They beckon us to recognize the impermanence of our constructs and the eternal nature of our shared human journey.
12:00
GRETA ON THE BEACH
Immersed in the sound of the sea and the song of seagulls, we witness the representation of a dull, unexpressed, empty humanity that knows how to light up only in the cathartic moment of desire, imagination, nostalgia and dance. Guiding us on this journey, suspended between dream and reality, are the apocalyptic words of Nevil Shute, the disquieting and profound words of T.S. Eliot, and the voice of Greta Thunberg, a voice that, if like the millenarists of the Middle Ages announces catastrophe, nevertheless resounds as a hope for redemption in its uncorrupted and incorruptible timbre, in the sensitivity that knows no compromise, in the courage of those who love courage and its horizons.
90 Minutes
THE PLEASURE OF STEPPING
OFF A HORSE WHEN IT’S MOVING AT FULL SPEED
Choreomaniacs
A dance epidemic breaks out in the central square of the city. Named over time “St Vitus Dance”, “Chorea Lasciva”, “Dance Mania” or “Choreomania”, the documentation of this event is as bizarre as the manifestation itself; a mixture of humoral medicine, supernatural phenomena, a little mycology, and some mythology. For those who dare to skip the articles that make up the Internet buzz, the dance epidemics is strongly infused with the ideas of the Christian Church of the late Middle Ages. The few contemporary researchers who studied it classified the event as mass hysteria, and some dance theorists even called it an early manifestation of choreopolitics. This dystopian event became historical information through the visions of those who had a voice in the community at the time (clergy, local authorities, theologians, chroniclers). In the absence of any testimony from a choreomaniac, the cause of this epidemic remains simple speculation, one which has gradually turned into historical truth.
40 Minutes
TOUJOURS DE 3/4 FACE!
According to Johnny Cadillac, a former Belgian karateka, « 3/4 face » is The ultimate defensive position! Loraine Dambermont makes this principle her own and, through a live tutorial, reveals her best self-defense secret skills. Toujours de 3⁄4 face! challenges the physical and mental virtuosity of the performer by pushing the limits of a constrained body between a marathon of hyper fast movements, and the extreme precision of its own musicality.
«The project like the result achieved are matters for Surrealism – Belgian Surrealism, of course»
Nicolas Villodre
20 Minutes
LEATHER BETTER
Leather Better explores by the means of rhythms and exhaustion a way to represent how social and political oppression translates into a body.
20 Minutes
ACCORDING TO
GRAVITY'S LAW
The forces of nature and physics on the one hand, and human fragility on the other. Every day, a trial of strength takes place between these two parties - the outcome: a tie, or not? The struggle with and against gravity, friction, electrical power and their companions often goes by the way, almost unnoticed, and yet it is a tension that never lets us go, from which we cannot free ourselves. Would this game without an outcome take a different course if physical forces reversed their mode of action? Or would there still be no escape?
25 Minutes
SKINS
A body that dances, glides, glistens, moves as if it were under water. The boundaries blur, not only between outside and inside. What is underneath the skin is washed upwards, finds form and enters into dialogue.
SKINS is created as a performative installation between sound, dance and visual art. It is conceived against the backdrop of an examination of the history of medicine, the development of medical instruments and diagnostic technologies. Sculptural objects serve as instruments to explore the body space. The performers do not use the objects functionally, but enter into a resonance relationship with them.
Durational Installation
MONDO
“Mondo” means world, but it means also hopscotch – the game – and it is the opposite of immondo, ‘unclean’. Our mania for an accomplishment, an apex of our personal biographies, our longing for a thorough self-narration that might be valid forever, that might tell us who we are once and for all. No matter how many times it has already happened, we keep believing that somewhere or somehow we can be forever. We collect fixed images, instants, endpoints, results, hoping that a chronicle of our several selves might provide us with more truth. Our unconfessed desire to become things.
Then, there is breath. The relentless, continuous action that accompanies us along our whole life. The invisible web of all our instants and fragments of self, with no other goal than the simple, bare fact of keeping us alive.
30 Minutes
formats of failure
Without a nail or any other thing to hammer in you can not fail, but can not succeed either. This digital performance circles around my fear of failing while at the same time having huge expectations. It is about trying without really trying - trying just to have an alibi. Through the always-changing action, the trying as well becomes a questioning of the motivation and driving force that stands behind it. The motive that is used is referencing a game that is often played in the countryside in Austria, where you try to hit one nail with the small part of the hammer and have to drink when you fail.
Durational Installation
Here are some of the productions presented at past editions of the Festival.
Relic
Models of Reality
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The Very Last Northern White Rhino
Found Choreographies
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Sons of Sissy
Queen of Hearts
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Gone
Bitmap
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AL13FB
Super Human
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Vocazione all'Asimmetria
Kudoku
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Cellule
Songs of the Water, Tales of the Sea
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Drift (I, II)
What we hold inside
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Back to the Future
Douglas
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Sunbeng Sitting
A Body Construction
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The Caregiver
Conditions of being a Mortal
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Out of Life
Love & Delay
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Alien Express
Game Over
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Weltstück
Rockers
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Julia Farkas & Juliana Rodriguez
Katharina Illnar & Mani Obeya
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Instant Opera
LARA
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Dancing Museums
Brothers
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Dance Communication Lab
Gras
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Video Performance
Dancing Museums
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Vogel
Silver Blue
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Workshop Series
Signature Series
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A-K L-Z
Sweethearts
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Migrant Bodies
Dancing Museums
Aerowaves
Dance x Change
Act your age
The B-Project
Beyond Fronta
Rivers of Europe
Kulturbetriebe Burgenland
Bruckner Universität Linz
Gemäldegalerie der Akademie der bildenden Künste
Landesgalerie Burgenland
Wienerroither & Kohlbacher
MUK Privatuniversität
Arts for Health Austria
Offenes Haus Oberwart
Brut
Lea Karnutsch
Laura Gagliardi
Katharina Illnar
Eva Schaller
Hugo le Brigand
Dagmar Dachauer
Jaskaran Anand
Katharina Senk
Maartje Pasman
Dorian Kaufeisen
Laureen Drexler
Alberto Cisello
Cindy Villemin
Emmy Steiner
Manuel Riegler
Flora Boros
Dominka Murckova
Laura Gazzani
Naima Mazic
Alexander Deutinger
Marta Navaridas
Alexander Gottfarb
Anna Maria Nowak
Simon Mayer
Stephanie Cumming
Georg Blaschke
Magdalena Chowaniec
Micheal Turinsky
Amanda Pina
Dagmar Dachauer
Dante Murillo
Arttu Palmio
Manaho Shimokawa
Jianan Qu
Hygin Delimat
Thomas Danielis
Iris Dittler
Pawel Dudus
Fanni Futterknecht
Claire Granier
Nikoletta Korkos
Martyna Lorenc
Valerie Oberleitner
Agnieszka Pedziwiatr
Katharina Pfiel
Katalin Piri
Kanako Sako
Filip Szatarski
Agata Wierzba
Radek Hewelt
Celia Hickey
Kanako Sako
Alessandro Sciarroni
Chris Haring
Esther Balfe
Mani Obeya
Mick Dolan
Daphne Strothman
Harmen Tromp
Dana Caspersen
Katalin Lörinc
Giorgia Nardin
Robert Clark
Jackie Waltz
Marco D'Agostin
Silvia Gribaudi
Glen Murray
Liv O'Donoghue
Oleg Soulimenko
Ulrich Troyer
Sara Wiktorowicz
Christina Medina
Alexis Vassiliou
Raul Maia
Leon Maric
Robert Steijn
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