[8:tension] Young Choreographers’ Series

As part of the LLB3 co-production scheme, international emerging artists are selected and invited to a 14-days residency to the renowned [8:tension] Young Choreographers’ Series in the frame of ImPulsTanz. They are provided with studio space and technical support and get the opportunity to show their work on an international level, often experimenting with different spaces or expanding into museums or the public space, and encounter new and much broader audiences.
 

[8:tension] Young Choreographers’ Series 2024

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Jette Loona Hermanis & Anna Ansone at the [8:tension] Podcast

Episode 17 of our [8:tension] Podcast is out! Meet choreographer Jette Loona Hermanis from Estland and visual artist and stage designer Anna Ansone from Latvia!

05.12.2024 - 12.12.2024 @ ImPulsTanz Vienna
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j.bouey & Tyrone Bevans at the [8:tension] Podcast

Episode 16 of our [8:tension] Podcast is out! This time with j. bouey and Tyrone Bevans, both waacking dancers and choreographers based in New York.

28.11.2024 - 05.12.2024 @ ImPulsTanz Vienna
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Viní Ventania & Vitória Jovem – Irmãs Brasil – at the [8:tension] Podcast

Episode 15 of our [8:tension] Podcast is out! It has never been that crowded behind the microphone: Today’s guests are Viní Ventania and Vitória Jovem, performing together as Irmãs Brasil.

21.11.2024 - 28.11.2024 @ ImPulsTanz Vienna
© Almud Krejza
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Xenia Koghilaki at the [8:tension] Podcast

Xenia Koghilaki is our guest in episode #14 of the [8:tension] Podcast. It is out now!

14.11.2024 - 21.11.2024 @ ImPulsTanz Vienna
© David Krooshof
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Astrid Boons at the [8:tension] Podcast

Episode 13 of our [8:tension] Podcast is out! Here is Astrid Boons, everyone!

07.11.2024 - 14.11.2024 @ ImPulsTanz Vienna
Georges Labbat and Chris Haring © Almud Krejza
Georges Labbat at the [8:tension] Podcast

Brand new episode 12 of our [8:tension] Podcast is out! Chris Haring had a chat with French choreographer and dancer Georges Labbat.

31.10.2024 - 07.11.2024 @ ImPulsTanz Vienna
Sean Pfeiffer and Soa Ratsifandrihana @ Almud Krejza
Soa Ratsifandrihana at the [8:tension] Podcast

Episode 11 of our [8:tension] Podcast is out! 

24.10.2024 - 31.10.2024 @ ImPulsTanz Vienna
© Almud Krejza
Deva Schubert at the [8:tension] Podcast

We started to release Season #2 of our [8:tension] Young Choreographers' Series! 

Our first guest is Deva Schubert, dancer and choreographer from Berlin and one of the winners of the 2024 ImPulsTanz – Young Choreographer’s Award with her piece Glitch Choir.

17.10.2024 - 31.10.2024 @ ImPulsTanz Vienna
Netti Nüganen

Netti Nüganen is invited to a residency to the renowned [8:tension] Young Choreographers’ Series in the frame of ImPulsTanz – Vienna International Dance Festival.

07.08.2024 - 12.08.2024 @ ImPulsTanz
Jette Loona Hermanis & Anna Ansone

Jette Loona Hermanis and Anna Ansone are invited to a residency to the renowned [8:tension] Young Choreographers’ Series in the frame of ImPulsTanz – Vienna International Dance Festival.

28.07.2024 - 11.08.2024 @ ImPulsTanz
j. bouey © Laura Bianchi courtesy of the Bogliasco Foundation
j. bouey & Tyrone Bevans

j. bouey and Tyrone Bevans are invited to a residency to the renowned [8:tension] Young Choreographers’ Series in the frame of ImPulsTanz.

27.07.2024 - 10.08.2024 @ ImPulsTanz
© Nadine Pramhas
Luca Bonamore

Luca Bonamore is invited to a residency to the renowned [8:tension] Young Choreographers’ Series in the frame of ImPulsTanz – Vienna International Dance Festival.

24.07.2024 - 02.08.2024 @ ImPulsTanz
Viní Ventania & Vitória Jovem

Viní Ventania and Vitória Jovem are invited to a residency to the renowned [8:tension] Young Choreographers’ Series in the frame of ImPulsTanz – Vienna International Dance Festival.

22.07.2024 - 05.08.2024 @ ImPulsTanz
© Neven Allgeier
Camilla Schielin

Camilla Schielin is invited to a residency to the renowned [8:tension] Young Choreographers’ Series in the frame of ImPulsTanz  – Vienna International Dance Festival.

22.07.2024 - 10.08.2024 @ ImPulsTanz
© David Krooshof
Astrid Boons

Astrid Boons is invited to a residency to the renowned [8:tension] Young Choreographers’ Series in the frame of ImPulsTanz – Vienna International Dance Festival.

17.07.2024 - 31.07.2024 @ ImPulsTanz
© Gli Anselmi
Georges Labbat

Georges Labbat is invited for a residency to the renowned [8:tension] Young Choreographers’ Series in the frame of ImPulsTanz – Vienna International Dance Festival.

15.07.2024 - 28.07.2024 @ ImPulsTanz
Xenia Koghilaki

Xenia Koghilaki is invited to a residency to the renowned [8:tension] Young Choreographers’ Series in the frame of ImPulsTanz – Vienna International Dance Festival.

15.07.2024 - 29.07.2024 @ ImPulsTanz
Soa Ratsifandrihana

Soa Ratsifandrihana is invited to a residency to the renowned [8:tension] Young Choreographers’ Series in the frame of ImPulsTanz – Vienna International Dance Festival.

13.07.2024 - 18.07.2024 @ ImPulsTanz
© Laura Schaffer
Deva Schubert

Deva Schubert is invited to a residency to the renowned [8:tension] Young Choreographers’ Series in the frame of ImPulsTanz – Vienna International Dance Festival.

10.07.2024 - 15.07.2024 @ ImPulsTanz
New Artistic Direction for [8:tension] Young Choreographers’ Series

In 2024 now, the [8:tension] series for emerging choreographers will take place for the first time under the artistic direction of Breanna O’Mara and Chris Haring.

01.02.2024 @ ImPulsTanz Festival Vienna

[8:tension] Young Choreographers’ Series 2023

[8:tension] Young Choreographers' Series Podcast with Olivia Axel Scheucher and Nick Romeo Reimann

This is already the last episode of our first podcast season! Welcome today’s guests, theatre director Olivia Axel Scheucher and actor Nick Romeo Reimann.

Their collaborative work FUGUE FOUR : RESPONSE was first developed for the Porn Film Festival Vienna. The satirical investigation of how sex and bodies are commodified in the digital age was then adapted for Volkstheater Dunkelkammer. 

02.05.2024 @ online
© Hugo Le Brigand
[8:tension] Young Choreographers' Series Podcast with Sebastiano Sing

Episode 8 out today! Listen to the conversation of Sean Pfeiffer and Sebastiano Sing. The work of Sebastiano, a Vienna-based choreographer and performer, has long been occupied with making space for big emotions. His piece MATHIEU was first developed in a TURBO residency at ImPulsTanz Festival 2022. Following its premiere in WUK Vienna’s project space, it was then presented at Schauspielhaus Vienna in the frame of [8:tension]. 

25.04.2024 @ online
[8:tension] Young Choreographers' Series Podcast with Anne Lise Le Gac & Loto Retina

New Episode out now! Hello, Anne Lise Le Gac and Loto Retina. Her work La Caresse du Coma ft. YOLO is a multi-media performance, a lecture on digital chimeras, and an invitation to a strange and yet strangely familiar world. Together with musical collaborator Loto Retina, Anne-Lise transformed the Kasino am Schwarzenbergplatz into a misty, spa-like space of uncertainties and fabricated truths. 

After their showings, the two of them sat down with writer Sean Pfeiffer. They discussed the role of levity and humor in their work, the productivity of not knowing for sure, and how their residency time at ImPulsTanz stimulated their creative partnership.

18.04.2024 @ online
[8:tension] Young Choreographers' Series Podcast with Marga Alfeirão

New Episode out today! Welcome Marga Alfeirão and her team. Marga’s work opens up spaces in which she is able to explore feminine sensuality and sexuality at her own pace. She and her team joined writer Sean Pfeiffer for a conversation before the second showing of their “lesbian lap dance duet” LOUNGE.

They discussed the reciprocal effect between the music and the dancers and the piece’s ebb and flow of energy and slowness. They also talk about the difficulties in balancing the public and the private while performing intimacy on stage.

11.04.2024 @ online
© Morgan Hickinbotham
[8:tension] Young Choreographers' Series Podcast with James Batchelor

James is a choreographer, dancer and dance teacher from Australia. Now based in Berlin, he works internationally. Before the second showing of his piece Shortcuts to Familiar Places at Schauspielhaus Vienna, James sat down with Chris Standfest. They discussed the ways in which James’ mentor Ruth Osborne as well as the legendary Gertrud Bodenwieser shaped the work.

They also touch on the specific excitement of showing it in Vienna, where Bodenwieser Lived before she had to flee from the Nazis. They further reflect on how expression or Ausdruckstanz is reentering the current dance landscape.

04.04.2024 @ online
[8:tension] Young Choreographers' Series Podcast with Harald Beharie

Harald’s first solo Batty Bwoy is both bleak and playful in its re-appropriation of racist and homophobic stereotypes. By embodying this harmful imagery, they emerge on the other side as a newly ambivalent figure, impossible to grasp. 

Writer Sean Pfeiffer and Harald talk about his inspirations for the piece, the musical collaboration with a Norwegian prog-rock band, and the delicacy of involving an audience directly. 

28.03.2024 @ online
[8:tension] Young Choreographers' Series Podcast with Esben Weile Kjær

Esben is a Danish visual artist whose sculptures and performances have been shown at numerous galleries and festivals. Esben’s works tap into his generation’s habits of visual consumption. He has introduced short-attention-span tools like social media livestreams into traditional museum spaces in pieces like BURN!.

With the writer Sean Pfeiffer, Esben discusses his experiences as a visual artist at a contemporary dance festival. They also talk about the heavy use of pop-cultural signifiers and accessing the authentic through the artificial.

28.03.2024 @ online
© Vince Varga
[8:tension] Young Choreographers' Series Podcast with Anna Biczók

Anna is a Hungarian dancer and choreographer based between Vienna and Stockholm. Her work often deals with bodily memory, cultural identity, and dance as a means of communication. The group choreography DELICATE has been equally shaped by these themes. The work features three female dancers who grew up in different European and Eastern European contexts – namely Karin Pauer in Austria, Adél Juhász in Hungary and 
Sasha Portyannikova in Russia.

After presenting DELICATE at Kasino am Schwarzenbergplatz, Anna sat down with author Sean Pfeiffer. They discussed the role of writing in the development of the piece, Anna’s decision not to perform herself, and her collaboration with musician Rozi Mákó.

21.03.2024 @ online
[8:tension] Young Choreographers' Series Podcast with Chara Kotsali

Chara is a performer, choreographer and dance instructor based in Athens, Greece. She has studied Theatre Studies as well as Social and Cultural Anthropology and is musically trained. Her artistic practice merges choreography with field recordings, sound collage and writing.

She sat down with author Sean Pfeiffer to discuss her first solo work to be possessed. It premiered at the Onassis Dance Days in Athens before being presented at Schauspielhaus Vienna in the frame of ImPulsTanz – Vienna International Dance Festival. In their conversation, the two touch upon the myth of artistic ecstasy, the comfort of routine, and the similarities between contemporary dance and poetry.

21.03.2024 @ online
First Podcast Episodes released today!

The artists of the [8:tension] Young Choreographers' Series of 2023 were in conversation with Chris Standfest and Sean Pfeiffer and we are excited to publish this podcast from today on. 

The first released episodes will be with Chara Kotsali and Anna Biczók. They are giving insights into their working methods and artistic approaches, the making of their pieces To Be Possessed and DELICATE, respectively, and their experience in Vienna.

The release will start on Thursday 21 March, with weekly new episodes. Save us on Spotify Apple Podcast, Podcastaddict or Deezer!

21.03.2024 @ online
Anne Lise Le Gac & Loto Retina
25.07.2023 - 06.08.2023 @ ImPulsTanz – Vienna International Dance Festival
Olivia Axel Scheucher / Nick Romeo Reimann
24.07.2023 - 06.08.2023 @ ImPulsTanz – Vienna International Dance Festival
Marga Alfeirão with Mariana Benenge, Myriam Lucas, Shaka Lion
20.07.2023 - 28.07.2023 @ ImPulsTanz – Vienna International Dance Festival
Harald Beharie
18.07.2023 - 31.07.2023 @ ImPulsTanz – Vienna International Dance Festival
© Vince Varga
Anna Biczók
17.07.2023 - 28.07.2023 @ ImPulsTanz – Vienna International Dance Festival
© Morgan Hickinbotham
James Batchelor & Collaborators
17.07.2023 - 27.07.2023 @ ImPulsTanz – Vienna International Dance Festival
© Hugo Le Brigand
Sebastiano Sing
10.07.2023 - 23.07.2023 @ ImPulsTanz – Vienna International Dance Festival
Chara Kotsali
08.07.2023 - 21.07.2023 @ ImPulsTanz – Vienna International Dance Festival
Esben Weile Kjær
04.07.2023 - 17.07.2023 @ ImPulsTanz – Vienna International Dance Festival