The Dance Identity Festival
Welcome to the Austrian rural Festival for contemporary Dance.
Celebrating 20 years of the Dance Identity Festival.
In the infinite expanse of time and space, amidst the clamor of existence,
lies a silent constant - transit. Change is the only permanence.
The Dance Identity Festival is an introspection into the very nature of
existence through the ephemeral language of dance. The 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. 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.
Festival Trailer 2025
Programme
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Performance Programme
15:00 airBurgenland x Dance Identity Open Studio
Erin Hill
Leonie Frühe, Barbara Rettig, Brice Berthelot, Jonah Martensen
Aoife Dunne, Robin Lütolf, Nynke Brandsma
17:00 Rebecca Horner / Maria*s
Rebecca Horner, Mila Schmidt, Joni Österlund
18:00 Charlie Khalil Prince / The Body Symphonic
Charlie Khalil Prince, Joss Turnbull
19:00 Oulouy / Black
Oulouy
Oulouy
Black / 19:00
Black is a reflection on the violence and emancipation of blackness in today’s world, through a body that challenges and disturbs, a body that is both wounded and celebrated. Using a set devoid of artifice and brimming with symbolism, choreographer and performer Oulouy hints at recent history such as the BlackLivesMatter movement and the murder of George Floyd to rethink the Black African body in the Western world.
Black is a dance, a visual and musical chronicle, narrated through street dance styles of the African continent and its diaspora in the USA, such as Coupé-Décalé, Ndomboló, Afrohouse or Krump.
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Charlie Khalil Prince
The Body Symphonic / 18:00
The body symphonic, a solo performance/concert, observes the body as a site of resistance. An engaged body moves through rituals of excavation revealing unbound mythologies and new roots, through which the performer/choreographer finds limitless agency.
Created in response to the multiple political and geopolitical crises in Lebanon, this piece is a meditation on the body’s place struggling against occupation, where looking back, looking in and looking forward become strategies of steadfastness and liberation.
Rebecca Horner
Maria*s / 17:00
A dance tribute to the silent film classic ‘Metropolis’ from 1927.
The production was originally created for the special exhibition ‘Experiment Expressionism’ at the Heidi Horten Collection in Vienna.
Maria*s – Man vs. Machine invites you to immerse yourself in a world of machines. The audience accompanies three dancers as they explore automated existence and human emotions. Are machines superior to humans? Who controls whom? Artificial intelligence, optimisation and external control are topics that define our present.In the end, the discrepancy between humans and machines remains, as well as an existential question: Are humans replaceable?
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airBurgenland x Dance Identity
Open Studio / 15:00
Each year around 60 international Artists come to Burgenland to create new work within the frame of airBurgenland. The Open Studio is a space for exchange and to discover new works by 11 Artists including Erin Hill, Leonie Frühe, Aoife Dunne, Robin Lütolf, Nynke Brandsma, Judith Augustinovic and Valerie Habsburg.
Previous Contributions
Here are some of the productions presented at past editions of the Festival.
Euripides Laskaridis
Relic
Liquid Loft
Models of Reality
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Viktor Szeri
Fatigue
Habib Ben Tanfous
Ici je legue ce qui me n'appartient plus
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Gaston Core
The Very Last Northern White Rhino
Jacopo Jenna
Found Choreographies
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Simon Mayer
Sons of Sissy
Navaridas & Deutinger
Queen of Hearts
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420 People
Why things go wrong
Loraine Dambermont
Toujours de 3/4 face!
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Robert Sher Machherndl
Gone
Lea Karnutsch
Bitmap
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Fernando Belfiore
AL13FB
Katharina Senk
Super Human
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Francesca Foscarini
Vocazione all'Asimmetria
Daniele Ninarello & Dan Kinzelman
Kudoku
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Nach
Cellule
Magdalena Chowaniec & Mani Obeya
Songs of the Water, Tales of the Sea
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Mario Barrantes Espinoza & Thomas Birzan
Drift (I, II)
Eva Schaller
What we hold inside
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Tanztheater Wien
Back to the Future
Robbie Synge
Douglas
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Simon Mayer
Sunbeng Sitting
Iris Dittler
A Body Construction
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Alexis Vassiliou
The Caregiver
Hodworks
Conditions of being a Mortal
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Liz King
Out of Life
Dante Murillo
Love & Delay
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Gaspar Kunsek & Zigan Krajncan
Alien Express
Low Air
Game Over
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The Bodyfocus Group
Weltstück
Paweł Dudus & Dante Murillo
Rockers
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Identity : Anonymous
Julia Farkas & Juliana Rodriguez
Air
Katharina Illnar & Mani Obeya
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Radek Hewelt & Filip Szatarski
Instant Opera
Miriam Sögner
LARA
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Lucy Suggate
Dancing Museums
Ferenc Feher
Brothers
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Robert Clark
Dance Communication Lab
Georg Blaschke & Laurent Ziegler
Gras
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RIVE
Video Performance
Connor Schumacher
Dancing Museums
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Laura Gagliardi & Shiri Riseman
Vogel
Milan Tomasik
Silver Blue
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Migrant Bodies
Workshop Series
Michael Turinsky
Signature Series
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Glen Murray
A-K L-Z
Liz King
Sweethearts
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