Elisa Sbaragli

Se Domani

How do we, as individual human beings, position ourselves

in the face of crisis?

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In Se domani, the word “crisis” is resemanticized through its original meaning: a choice, an opportunity to rediscover the Other, to renew oneself, to be alive and not consider oneself immortal, by remaining in relation with what lies outside us and allowing reality to pass through us.

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It seems that human beings need to find themselves in a state of emergency in order to act, and that they are only capable of contemplating the possibility of change when it becomes inevitable. Until then, the only option is to survive as best one can: ignoring, forgetting, moving forward along a path whose sole focus is the ego, in a blindness

- more or less conscious - toward the Other surrounding us.

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Mattia Cason

Aquilee

The performer wears the clothes of Pier Paolo Pasolini at thirty-six, visiting Aquileia with his friend Maria Seccardi. The aim is to go beyond the historical Pasolini - to make room for his passion for foreign languages, his need to think past the nation, his faith in the scandalous revolutionary force of the past. A Europe at once new and immensely old, the Afro-Asiatic Europe of myth, of the Jewish diaspora, of migrations past, present and still to come.

 Fragments of history are set beside one another like tesserae, building a bridge between Asia, Africa and Europe — the same roots that bind us to the fate of the North African and Asian coasts, from Gaza to the demand for truth for Giulio Regeni.

Luigi Guerrieri

Poor Guy

When does the narration of my personal traumas become an exercise of narcissism?

Poor Guy is a performative autoethnography that explores narratives of self-fashioning and identification while questioning trauma-plots and victimhood. It is a quest for nuances and complexities of the desire to be seen, heard, and understood, as well as the tension between vulnerability and exhibitionism. This performance challenges the moral dichotomy between victims and perpetrators, while navigating the intersection of personal and political storytelling. Poor Guy is a narcissistic project that questions a narcissist world, using the same weapon.

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Esther Balfe, Tura Gomez Coll, Su Huber, Theo Emil Krausz, Luan de Lima, Joni Österlund

None are Strangers

Itzhak Bentov was an engineer, not a mystic. He held that human evolution had moved into the nervous system, and that at its highest level consciousness overlaps completely from one person to the next, so that nobody is finally a stranger to anybody.

The obvious way to handle material like this would be to illustrate it: eight months of work on a beautiful, legible object about interconnection. But that method disagrees with its own subject. A long choreographic process is an argument for authorship, for correction, for six bodies gradually subordinated to one intelligence in the room.

The six performers worked apart, and briefly. Each built one segment alone, out of a short act of listening and the lifelong archive held in a trained body.

Oulouy

Black

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

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.

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Rebecca Horner

Maria*s

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

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.

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