Festival

Dance Identity

Burgenland International Dance Festival



Programme

9 international productions from 7 countries.


Read more

Tickets

One ticket for all performances is 20 euro. Young people under 18 are free.


Buy Tickets

The Venue

All performances are programmed from 12:00 - 22:00 at one venue on Nov 25th.


Find us

EISENSTADT, NOV 25TH

12:00 - 22:00



9 PERFORMANCES. 1TICKET. 20 EURO.



In the infinite expanse of time and space, amidst the clamor of existence, lies a silent constant - transit. Change is the only permanence.


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

Skins

Formats of Failure

13:00

Choreomaniacs

The pleasure of stepping off a horse when it's moving at full speed

15:00

According to gravity's law

Leather Better

17:00

Mondo

Toujours de 3/4 Face!

19:00

Greta on the Beach

GRETA ON THE BEACH


FRANCESCA FOSCARINI &

COSIMO LOPALCO


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

www.francescafoscarini.it



THE PLEASURE OF STEPPING

OFF A HORSE WHEN IT’S MOVING AT FULL SPEED


COURTNEY MAY ROBERTSON


As a starting point for this solo Courtney takes a metaphor for self control; a rider taming a wild horse. She looks at the struggle between embracing one's desires, and regulating behaviour in accordance with societal pressures. Visual projections encapsulate Courtney within an octagon. Through a combination of poetry, dance, and song, she travels across landscapes of personal desires, memories, and conflicts. The space acts like a time capsule; intimate home videos are spliced with sampled imagery from YouTube, documentaries and old films. The work is Courtney’s attempt to embrace the, sometimes messy, contradictions that make up a multifaceted human.


15 Minutes

www.courtneymayrobertson.myportfolio.com




Choreomaniacs


SIMONA DEACONESCU


1518. The city of Strasbourg is on high alert. 

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

www.tangajdance.com



TOUJOURS DE 3/4 FACE!


LORAINE DAMBERMONT


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

www.lodbmt.com




LEATHER BETTER


ANDREA GIVANOVITCH


Leather Better explores by the means of rhythms and exhaustion a way to represent how social and political oppression translates into a body.


This oppression takes the form a western leather jacket, being an item that has a very masculine energy because of it’s shape, fabric and use in the past by men. As a gay man that has been called out for being too feminine all my life, how is my body and through it my personality affected by the image and representation that this item carries.



20 Minutes



ACCORDING TO

GRAVITY'S LAW


LEA KARNUTSCH


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

www.leakarnutsch.at




SKINS


IRIS DITTLER


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  

www.articulate.at



MONDO


GENNARO LAURO


“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

www.sostapalmizi.it




formats of failure


mICHI SCHMIDL


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 

www.michischmidl.com



The Festival Venue

Franz Schubert Platz 6, Eisenstadt.


Plan your Route


Previous Contributions

Here are some of the productions presented at past editions of the Festival.

Euripides Laskaridis

Relic

Liquid Loft

Models of Reality

.

Gaston Core

The Very Last Northern White Rhino

Jacopo Jenna

Found Choreographies

.

Simon Mayer

Sons of Sissy

Navaridas & Deutinger

Queen of Hearts

.

Robert Sher Machherndl

Gone

Lea Karnutsch

Bitmap

.

Fernando Belfiore

AL13FB

Katharina Senk

Super Human

.

Francesca Foscarini

Vocazione all'Asimmetria

Daniele Ninarello & Dan Kinzelman

Kudoku

.

Nach

Cellule

Magdalena Chowaniec & Mani Obeya

Songs of the Water, Tales of the Sea

.

Mario Barrantes Espinoza & Thomas Birzan

Drift (I, II)

Eva Schaller

What we hold inside

.

Tanztheater Wien

Back to the Future

Robbie Synge

Douglas

.

Simon Mayer

Sunbeng Sitting

Iris Dittler

A Body Construction

.

Alexis Vassiliou

The Caregiver

Hodworks

Conditions of being a Mortal

.

Liz King

Out of Life

Dante Murillo

Love & Delay

.

Gaspar Kunsek & Zigan Krajncan

Alien Express

Low Air

Game Over

.

The Bodyfocus Group

Weltstück

Paweł Dudus & Dante Murillo

Rockers

.

Identity : Anonymous

Julia Farkas & Juliana Rodriguez

Air

Katharina Illnar & Mani Obeya

.

Radek Hewelt & Filip Szatarski

Instant Opera

Miriam Sögner

LARA

.

Lucy Suggate

Dancing Museums

Ferenc Feher

Brothers

.

Robert Clark

Dance Communication Lab

Georg Blaschke & Laurent Ziegler

Gras

.

RIVE

Video Performance

Connor Schumacher

Dancing Museums

.

Laura Gagliardi & Shiri Riseman

Vogel

Milan Tomasik

Silver Blue

.

Migrant Bodies

Workshop Series

Michael Turinsky

Signature Series

.

Glen Murray

A-K L-Z

Liz King

Sweethearts

.

Share by: