Members: Les Brigittines (Brussels, BE), Lavanderia a Vapore (Turin, IT), La Briqueterie (FR), Bora Bora (Aarhus, DK), Dance Base – National Centre for Dance (Edinburgh, UK), Dampfzentrale Bern (CH), Sadler’s Wells (London, UK), Kino Šiška – Centre for Urban Culture (Ljubljana, SI), Trafó – House of Contemporary Arts (Budapest, HU), Dansateliers Rotterdam (NL), Tanec Praha (CZ), STUK Kunstencentrum (Leuven, BE), Dance City (Newcastle, UK), HIPP – Croatian Institute for Movement and Dance (HR), The Isadora & Raymond Duncen Dance Research Center (GR), The Place (London, UK), Tanzquartier Wien (AT), Tanzhaus Zurich (CH), Tanzhaus NRW (Düsseldorf, DE), Tanssin Talo/Dance House Helsinki (FI), O Espaço do Tempo (Montemor-o-Novo, PT), Mercat de les Flors (Barcelona, ES), Maison de la Danse (Lyon, FR), KLAP – Maison pour la Danse (Marseille, FR), K3 – Zentrum für Choreografie | Tanzplan Hamburg (DE), Hellerau – European Centre for the Arts (Dresden, DE), DeVIR/CAPa Centro de Artes Performativas do Algarve (PT), Dansmakers Amsterdam (NL), Dansehallerne (Copenhagen, DK), Dansens Hus (Stockholm, SE), Dansens Hus (Oslo, NO), Dance Ireland (Dublin, IE), Dance House (Lemesos, CY), Dance Gate (Lefkosia, CY), DanceEast – Jerwood Dancehouse (Ipswich, UK), CND – Centre National de la Danse (Paris, FR), CDCN Toulouse/Occitanie – La Place de la Danse (FR), CSC – Centro per la scena contemporanea (Bassano del Grappa, IT), Art Stations Foundation (Poznań, PL), ADC – Association pour la Danse Contemporaine (Geneva, CH), Dance Limerick (IE), TROIS C-L – Centre de Création Chorégraphique Luxembourgeois (LU), DansBrabant (NL)
THE
TQW
THE
TQW
Since its inception in 2001, Tanzquartier Wien has been counted among the most influential dance centres in Europe. Initiated by local artists, it was one of several cultural institutions that were given premises at MuseumsQuartier. The first artistic director, Sigrid Gareis, was succeeded by Walter Heun in 2009. As of the beginning of 2018, Bettina Kogler is in charge of the establishment. Tanzquartier Wien presents various events in its three Studios from October to June and in MuseumsQuartier’s Hall G from October to April.
The goal and purpose of Tanzquartier Wien is an ongoing collaboration with local artists active in choreography and performance. This may take the form of various formats, and isn’t afraid to take risks or experiment. Another focus is on the presentation of selected works by international artists. In addition, Tanzquartier Wien continues to work tirelessly in body & performance practices, theory & research, as well as artistic labs and audiencing. Visitors have a library at their disposal that holds a selection of specialist literature and a media library that also serves as an archive.
Tanzquartier Wien is a place for artists to work and exchange ideas; simultaneously, it is a venue where visitors can engage with contemporary choreography that takes up sociopolitical and/or artistic discourses. As an institution, we are dedicated to facilitating local and international engagement with contemporary dance, choreography, and performance and work relentlessly to create encounters, exchange, and a community – if you are here to watch, listen, dance, discuss or theorise – including but not limited to elements and aspects from other artistic and social practices.
In terms of content, Tanzquartier Wien’s programming is in line with, among other things, Donna Haraway’s considerations. The US-American theoretician has postulated that a future “more worth living” is only possible if we finally stop passing on and writing the same destructive narratives. In that sense, Tanzquartier Wien sees itself as a creative space for new narratives and a “better” future. Or, to put it in the words of German philosopher Eva von Redecker: “Instead of depleting nature and ourselves by answering the call of profit and phantom property, human endeavours should concentrate on regeneration: nurture, sustain – and dance.”
TEAM
Direction
Bettina Kogler –
Ulrike Heider-Lintschinger –
Programme
Christa Spatt
Theory
Anna Leon
Body & Performance Practices
Linda Samaraweerová
Library & TQW Magazin
Christina Gillinger
Communication
Helma Bittermann – Head of Marketing
Jonathan Hörnig – Marketing & Mediathek
Franz Jud – Press
Theresa Rauter – Audiencing
DANCE ON TOUR Austria
Nina Gadermaier
Financial & Personnel Administration
Heike Kappes —
Fariba Karimi
Isabella Kossina
Evening Managers
Quirin Babl
Maximilian Hohlweg
Carina Netzer
Visitor Services
Sarah Holzinger
Hanna Holzner
Roman Iellici
Lina Katt
Camilo Latorre
Simeon Ohlsen
Maria Rauch
Inga Redecker
Lena Taisser
Hanna Wimmer
Cleaners
Gorica Stankovic —
CONTACT
Box office & evening box office
Body & Performance Practices
Library
Sat 10.00–19.30
We are closed from 23.12. to 08.01.
Evening box office
Contact
Tanzquartier Wien GmbH
Museumsplatz 1
A-1070 Wien
tqw.at
+43-1-581 35 91
Directions
Underground
U3 Volkstheater
Tram and bus lines
1, 2, 71, D, U2Z, 57A
PARASOL – a dance group of TQW
For some time now, the production and working conditions have become more and more precarious and project-based in the contemporary dance scene. There are especially no opportunities for young artists to be part of an ensemble to develop their artistic practice and have financial security. PARASOL is TQW’s response to this situation.
Starting in 2022, two renowned choreographers – this year’s are Ian Kaler and Alix Eynaudi – will continuously work with a select group of five young dancers on a TQW Halle G production for three months each year. Compared to the usual short production processes in the independent performing arts scene, a long and intensive rehearsal process will allow more time for development and experimentation.
Further training will complement the artistic practice, and artists will be embedded in TQW’s diverse programme of productions, theory lectures, and body & performance practices. A hybrid artistic – and paid – training project for the dance scene in Vienna and beyond, but also a mobile network of relations, an experimental setting focusing on the vital needs of ensemble productions: solidarity, collective experience, conviviality.
Participants 2022:
Alex Bailey studied at Sandberg Institute, Amsterdam, with an MFA in Fine Arts and has been living in Vienna since 2015. He has been invited to show his work, created with Krõõt Juurak, at brut Vienna, Dansehallerne, Copenhagen, and MDT, Stockholm. At TQW, the artist duo presented the performance and research project CODOMESTICATION.
Camilla Schielin is a dancer and performer based in Vienna. She studied contemporary dance and performance both in Austria and Germany and has since worked with, among others, Nick Mauss on a project for the Museum Ludwig in Cologne as well as with Doris Uhlich in Vienna. In 2021, she showed her solo take me to my house as part of the Rakete festival at TQW.
Júlia Rúbies Subirós is a dancer from Barcelona, living in Barcelona and Brussels. She is interested in practising expanded choreographic approaches as spaces of transformation with particular emphasis on spaces of practice as catalysers of affective community-building. A graduate of P.A.R.T.S., Julia collaborates with Nathaniel Moore, Michiel Vandevelde, Marco d’Agostin, and Lili M. Rampre, among others, and presented her work at Mercat de les Flors, Barcelona, among others.
Shahrzad Nazarpour grew up and studied theatre and art in Iran. Since 2020 she has been studying Transmedia Art at the University of Applied Arts, Vienna. Her solo performance Hijab offline, was part of the first edition of Skin – performance festival for young adults at Dschungel Wien.
Theresa Scheinecker grew up in Upper Austria and has been living in Vienna since 2010. She studied psychology and psychotherapy and dedicated her life intensively to various forms of movement – in particular, the styles of breaking, popping, and tutting, as well as acrobatics. She spent part of 2018 in the USA to immerse herself in the freestyle community of hip-hop culture. Since 2020, she has also been exploring stage work. In 2021 she was a participant in various research formats at ImPulsTanz.
HAY TO GO – PARASOL Logbook I
Legs, fold, Belly, fold, Mane, fold, Head – PARASOL Logbook II
PARASOL Chat with Júlia Rúbies Subirós, Alex Bailey, Shahrzad Nazarpour, Ray (Theresa Scheinecker), Camilla Schielin
UNFOLDING INTERIORS – PARASOL Logbook III
Performance dates
Ecto-Fictions
Fri 22. / Sat, 23.04.
19.30
TQW Halle G
To Sing The Wind, Pipes And Bones, A Dance Choral
Fri 16. / Sat 17.12.
19.30
TQW Halle G
Networks
In addition to the major leading European association of dance theatres under the European Dancehouse Network (EDN) label, of which TQW has been a member from the start, the two flexible networks WEB and Be My Guest focus on young artists who take the genre as a whole to a new level with their works. Locally, TQW is also a founding member of the PAKT network – an amalgamation of several theatre venues in Vienna to establish a joint representation of interests.
WEB is an initiative by Beursschouwburg (Brussels, BE), Fierce Festival (Birmingham, UK), Frascati (Amsterdam, NL), Gessnerallee (Zurich, CH), Göteborgs Dans & Teater Festival (SE), Le Vivat (Armentières, FR), Tanzquartier Wien (AT), Uzès Danse (FR), WP Zimmer (Antwerp, BE)
Members of Be My Guest are: Kunstencentrum BUDA (Kortrijk, BE), La Bellone (Brussels, BE), Théâtre de la Bastille (Paris, FR), Théâtre Saint-Gervais (Geneva, CH), Festival Belluard Bollwerk International (Freiburg, CH), Kaaitheater (Brussels, BE), Plateforme Parallèle (Marseille, FR), ICI-CCN (Montpellier, FR), Artsadmin (London, UK), Short Theatre (Rome, IT), Materiais Diversos (Lisbon, PT), Tanzquartier Wien (AT).
Member institutions (in alphabetical order): Brunnenpassage, brut Wien, DAS OFF THEATER, Dschungel Wien, Kosmos Theater, Rabenhof Theater, Schauspielhaus Wien, TAG – Theater an der Gumpendorfer Straße, Tanzquartier Wien, Theater Drachengasse, Theater Nestroyhof / HAMAKOM, Theater SPIELRAUM, WERK X, WERK X-Petersplatz, WUK performing arts and WUK Kinderkultur.
Newsblog
Editorial January–March 2023
UNFOLDING INTERIORS
PARASOL Logbook III
FACILITIES & LEASE
TQW rents out the newly renovated and very bright Studios for rehearsal work.
The relevant rental information is available for download as a PDF file here. Rental is always subject to availability, so we kindly ask you to contact us as early as possible. A rented Studio can only be used during the opening hours of TQW’s box office. All Studios have a sprung wooden floor.
The stage setups of TQW’s Studios and Halle G are available for download here.