Ian Kaler is a choreographer, contemporary dancer, filmmaker, and performer. He studied Transmedial Art with Brigitte Kowanz at the University of Applied Arts Vienna and completed the pilot study programme BA Contemporary Dance, Context, Choreography at the Inter-University Centre for Dance (HZT) at the University of the Arts Berlin. He holds an MA in Filmmaking (Directing Fiction) from Goldsmiths, University of London. Since 2010, he has been developing his physical and creative practice in choreographic series in exchange with various artists through different audio-visual media.

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Developed site-specifically for mumok’s basement white cube, The Burgeoning takes Edward Muybridge’s famous locomotion studies from the 19^th century as a point of departure for an elaborate setting as well as a fluid space. Together with electronic music producer rRoxymore, set designer Stephanie Rauch and light designer Catalina Fernandez, choreographer, filmmaker and dancer Ian Kaler explores the relationship between real-time composition, light and the maelstrom of a gradually building industrial, cinematic and ambient techno soundtrack. After some time of exploring the relationship between movement, storytelling and narrative, Kaler creates in his new solo a dance full of intensity. A dance between introspection and captivating exertion. The Burgeoning: Motion Pictures is an attempt to shape and let movement be – as embodied prose, as poetry!