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july 26, 2019 - Leopold Museum
COOPERATION IMPULSTANZ - Vienna International Dance Festival
COOPERATION IMPULSTANZ
VIENNA INTERNATIONAL DANCE FESTIVAL
11.07.2019 - 11.08.2019
“We are delighted that, following the successful 2016 and 2017 cooperations between the #leopoldmuseum and ImPulsTanz – #vienna International Dance Festival, this wonderful museum will once again open its doors to state-of-the-art positions from the field of contemporary dance and #performance in 2019.
From 11th July to 11th August 2019 ImPulsTanz will take place at the most eminent and beautiful stages in #vienna – from the Burgtheater via the Volkstheater to Odeon and Schauspielhaus – and with its unique program of workshops and research projects will transform the ART-for-ART rehearsal stages of Vienna’s Arsenal as well as of the State Opera, Burgtheater and Volksoper for four weeks into the world’s biggest workshop center.
We can no longer speak of state-of-the-art in the area of dance and #performance without bearing in mind and actively promoting the evolution of the entire genre and its opening towards the field of visual art and museums. It is with a view to this tendency especially that the cooperation between ImPulsTanz and the #leopoldmuseum for the 2016 series curated by Tino Sehgal visual arts X dance has since established itself as a signature cooperation: the #leopoldmuseum proved an ideal venue for illustrious lectures, talks, workshops and performances, such as the opening #event by Dorothea von Hantelmann and Jérôme Bel, as well as a nocturnal and intense encounter with Thomas Oberender, the artistic director of the Berlin Festival, and celebrity curator Hans Ulrich Obrist, which went on from midnight until 6 am – along with various works all over the museum by Tino Sehgal himself as well as performances by Xavier Le Roy, Berlinde De Bruyckere with Romeu Runa, Simone Aughterlony, Trajal Harrell, Benoît Lachambre and the Austrian artists Florentina Holzinger, Ian Kaler, Georg Blaschke, Willi Dorner, Chris Haring, Akemi Takeya, and many others. In the case of Holzinger, Haring, Aughterlony and Takeya, the cooperation afforded the unique opportunity to show their latest works on a large stage as well as in a version adapted for the museum – this form of collaboration, too, is among the most important developments in the arts, enriching audiences as well as the artists themselves with novel esthetical experiences and perspectives.
The 2017 cooperation was devoted to the Belgian artist, theater maker, author and choreographer Jan Fabre. An exhibition at the #leopoldmuseum devoted to the #performance oeuvre of this artist, who is as world-renowned as he is controversial, afforded profound insights not only into the evolution of Fabre’s oeuvre but also into the history of #performance Art as a whole since its reinvention from the spirit of the performing arts in the early 1980s. Fabre opened the presentation himself, together with a brilliant partner, with certainly the longest kiss in art history entitled I am a Mistake. 2017 naturally also saw other artists perform at the #leopoldmuseum – including the young Belgian Gaëtan Rusquet as part of the Young Choreographers emphasis of ImPulsTanz, as well as luminaries such as François Chaignaud, Mårten Spångberg, the Viennese choreographer Oleg Soulimenko and the Belgian-British choreographer Vera Tussing with a work for blind and visually impaired audiences.
In the summer of 2019 the museum will open up an entire floor and its wonderful atriums to the festival, thus allowing us to begin a new chapter in terms of our cooperation and the transdisciplinary interactions of our art forms. Without wanting to give too much away, 2019 will be sure to offer an inspiring mix of artists like the Canadian Benoît Lachambre or Xavier Le Roy, who already have site-specific experience at the #leopoldmuseum, and artists who will perform at the museum for the first time. Lachambre, for instance, will return to the #leopoldmuseum after having shown his solo #performance Lifeguard there, which is part of a trilogy that will continue with the group work Fluid Grounds as its second instalment. Fluid Grounds is both a workshop and durational #performance devoted to the exploration of gestural expression and feelings. Benoît Lachambre and his cast will continue their deliberations about comprehending dance as a poetic act of self-discovery which contributes to the understanding of our sensibility, empathy and intelligence.
Current advanced tendencies in contemporary dance and #performance generally pose questions about the co-existence of human and non-human players, about sustainable ecology
and about the relationship of our bodies to developments in the fields of AI, robotics and digital media. Immersion, the physical inclusion of audiences in the esthetical events, plays another important role. With regards these social and artistic questions, there is an increasing
demand in works for open spaces, without a separation of stage and audience. The premises of the museum provide ideal conditions and an extraordinary context for introducing this field and its remarkable artists to Viennese and international ImPulsTanz audiences and to the visitors of the #leopoldmuseum. We are busily working on our program and are looking forward to the collaboration, and especially to our encounters with audiences, in the summer of 2019!”
Karl Regensburger & the ImPulsTanz team
www.leopoldmuseum.org
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