RE/ACT! puts topics such as moral courage and responsibility into a performance context. Like this the audience and the performers can experience and experiment with those themes. The performers, who have their roots in contemporary circus, dance and performance art, work with tools from these very fields. They play. They play with falling and being …
Memory combines science and performance in order to come to terms with circus under National Socialism. Contemporary Viennese artists are made familiar with historically researched biographies of artists persecuted during the Second World War. These biographies are implemented in small performances, which are shown during the walks around historical places. Places that have been found …
There were quite a few „Spectacle“ in Vienna, a city with a rich circus history. The performative city walk visits the historic Viennese circus venues in the district of Leopoldstadt and sheds light on the glory and the dark sides of this „proletarian“ art form as well as the further development to today’s contemporary form. …
Do what you are told? Not these women! They defy traditional role models and assert themselves successfully in a male domain. Pirates, the sea is ours!
A 250-meter-long red carpet – originally intended for an interactive performance – is cut into different sized parts in the wake on Covid-19 and thus converted into mobile stages in two municipal buildings. The image of artists and residents on a piece of carpet stands as a metaphor for “physical distancing” and at the same …
Les Grands Airs Viennois An evening full swirls and twirls across the stage. Singers, dancers and an Orchestra create an evening full of Viennese flair and charm with the help of the famous melodies by Johann Strauss, Leo Fall, Franz Lehar and many more.
OUT-SIDE-IN is ego portrait’s current research project. The performance we are working on is not a show in a conventional way, we understand it as a performance process. All participants -the performers and the audience- can give information from their inside out, as well as take the outside information in. The aim is to create …
Enjoyment, pleasure, hunger, desire. Using the language of contemporary circus Momomento is looking for the enjoyment of all facets of life, going into the extremes and beyond. With music and dance, playful and breathtakingly risky, the four member of the circus ensemble explore the varieties of pleasure under the branches of a tempting apple tree. …
Magic opera, Singspiel, a comedy with spectacular stage effects, Masonic ritual with Egyptian mysteries, heroic-comic opera? Die Zauberflöte is heard more often and has been more frequently performed, discussed, queried and interrogated than almost any other work in the history of opera. It is rare for the mysteriousness and multiformity of a work to be …
Maja is a dancer, she loves swirling around. Ralph is a juggler, he loves throwing things in the air, catching and balancing them. Together they take the next step and meet in the world of partner acrobatics, where Ralph is swirling Maja around, is balancing and catching her. Sometimes it is the other way around.
