10.45-12.30 Training Ingrid Hörlezeder TQW / Studios
13.00-16.30 Workshop: A Touch of Something TQW / Studios
15.00-18.00 P.Gehmacher/V.Miller: at arm's length Leopold Museum
18.30-19.30 Artists' discussion with P.Gehmacher/ V.Miller and F.Tietjen TQW / Studios
20.30 Rachid Ouramdane: Loin... TQW / Hall G
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Research-Workshop
METTE INGVARTSEN (DK)
A Touch of Something
13.00 - 16.30 in TQW / Studios (till Sun. 25 April)

A Touch of Something is conceived as a research workshop guided by Mette Ingvartsen in collaboration with Sandra Noeth that investigates different ways of practicing and thinking about touch, infection and contamination in the context of dance and performance. During the workshop and with the practical and theoretical input of invited guests we propose to tackle different starting points such as… touch and gesture… touch and the five senses… touch and synaesthetic experiences… touch and visibility… touch and spectatorship

With amongst others Arno Böhler, Anne Juren, Vladimir Miller, Rachid Ouramdane, Manon Santkin, Friedrich Tietjen.
Please note: Registration needed. The single sessions of the workshop cannot be attended separately.

Première / Video-Installation
PHILIPP GEHMACHER (A) / VLADIMIR MILLER (D)
at arm’s length
15.00 - 18.00 in the Leopold Museum
(+ Thur. 22 April 15.00 – 21.00 in Leopold Museum)
 
Concept, video and installation: Philipp Gehmacher, Vladimir Miller choreography: Philipp Gehmacher performers: Philipp Gehmacher, Yannick Guédon, An Kaler, Sabile Rasiti, Venke Sortland camera and lighting: Leena Koppe camera assistance: Judith Benedikt electrics: Günther Bernhard production management: Petra Herglotz, Katharina Hager von Strobele assistance: Martina Knoll construction: Gonzalez Haase / AAS projection: 4youreye
 
In at arm’s length Philipp Gehmacher and Vladimir Miller interweave the themes of affection and control, independence and dependence in a large-scale video installation. In a room constructed for the camera, five people are choreographed who need and take one another in the experience of mutual cooperation in order to get from one side of the room to the other. In his stage work Philipp Gehmacher has repeatedly concerned himself with the interpersonal space and the distance between two or more bodies. How can my arm reach out to the other and a possible contact with the other body take place? How much distance from each other must two bodies maintain in order not to permit the friendly proximity to become personal? The performers move to the edge of the picture, as if the stage ended there, and mark the future absence of the space in the portrayal. Their gestures show the picture as a transparent boundary of contact. They are aware of their diagrammatic placing in the room-picture, in which two reference structures of the bodies overlap and complete one another, and through the camera-eye reach into the future of their perception into the presence of the spectators. 
In the break with the format, at arm’s length is a further study in the cooperation between  Philipp Gehmacher and Vladimir Miller to make the incomprehensibility of the image physically experienceable for the spectator.

Production: Philipp Gehmacher / Mumbling Fish co-production: Tanzquartier Wien. Philipp Gehmacher / Mumbling Fish is supported by the Cultural Department of the City of Vienna. In cooperation with the Leopold Museum.

Artists’ discussion
18.30 in TQW / Studios

What does the contact between two bodies in the picture mean? The positioning between surrender to the camera and negotiating with it? On Wed. 21 April at 18.30 in the TQW / Studios there will be an artists’ discussion with Philipp Gehmacher, Vladimir Miller and Friedrich Tietjen (professor of the theory and the history of photography at the Leipzig University for Graphic Arts and Printing). (admission free)

Austrian première
L’A. / RACHID OURAMDANE (F)
Loin…
20.30 in TQW / Hall G
 
Concept / performance: Rachid Ouramdane music: Alexandre Meyer video: Aldo Lee lighting: Pierre Leblanc costumes / make-up: La Bourette set: Sylvain Giraudeau project assistance: Erell Melscoët stage-manager: Sylvain Giraudeau video manager: Jacques Hoepffner lighting manager: Stéphane Graillot
 
A journey is also a possibility, it is also a moment of taking stock of one’s own identity, or rather of one’s own identities. Those we have inherited, that we embody in the eyes of others, that we project onto ourselves, and those we are trying to emancipate ourselves from... In this negotiation of the legacy of the past and the present the feeling of being a stranger often arises. From our assumed difference and our limited understanding of elsewhere, a place emerges  from which we can examine our perceptions. These intersections are axes along which I have constructed this choreographic project. (Rachid Ouramdane)

In his solo Loin... Rachid Ouramdane presents an unusual autoportrait. During a three-month journey through Vietnam the choreographer explored the places on the route taken by his dead father, who had been a soldier in France’s former colony of French Indochina. In the course of a discussion it became clear to the son of Algerian immigrants that from their point of view he was regarded as the "son of a colonialist". He recorded his discussions and encounters that took place there in a documentary. Loin... is not a reportage but an artistic process intended to locate his own identity in the tension between post-colonial realities and continuous redefinitions. An aesthetics of witnessing in which Rachid Ouramdane works personally and poetically on the construction of a mode of listening.

Production: L’A. Co-production: Théâtre de la Ville à Paris, Bonlieu, Scène Nationale d’Annecy, Biennale de la Danse de Lyon.  With the support of: Le Fanal, Scène Nationale de Saint-Nazaire (Produktions-Residenz), Cultures France, the Wonderful district Ho Chi Minh City – Vietnam, the French Embassy to Vietnam – L’Espace, Centre Culturel Hanoi, the Service de Coopération et d’Action Culturelle, Ho Chi Minh City,  and Théâtre 2 Gennevilliers.

Special thanks to: Fatima Ouramdane, Tuan Andrew Nguyen, Tam Vo Phi, Tiffany Chung, Anna Tuyen Tran, Chong Dai Vo, Richard Streitmatter-Tran, Sandrine Llouquet, Tran Cong, Tran Luong, Dinh Q. Lê and Zoé Butt for their reminiscences, their words and their silence, Bertrand Peret for his hospitality, Armando Menicacci, Jacques Hoepffner and Benjamin Furbacco for their valuable advice, and Sylvaine Van Den Esch and Vanina Sopsaisana for their support.