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Tanzquartier Wien – Centre for Contemporary Choreography and Performance

TQW

 

THE
TQW

Tanzquartier Wien – Centre for Contemporary Choreography and Performance

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 –

Artistic Managing Director & Programme

Ulrike Heider-Lintschinger –

Commercial Managing Director

Office Management

Nina Gadermaier

Programme

Carolina Nöbauer

Theory

Anna Leon

Body & Performance Practices

Linda Samaraweerová

Library & TQW Magazin

Christina Gillinger

Mediathek

Maximilian Hohlweg

Production

Sebastian Lorenz

Bernhard Seyringer

Communication

Helma Bittermann – Head of Marketing

Ivonne Ilfrich – Marketing

Franz Jud – Press

Audiencing & Accessibility

Theresa Rauter

DANCE ON TOUR Austria

Nina Gadermaier

Ticketing

Ela Piplits —

Head of Ticketing

Florian Hohl

Mayra Jenzer Azevedo

Nargis Kurtkaya

Xenia Schedlmayer

Technical Department

Monika Gruber — Head of Technical Department

Lisa Schwarzenbacher

Financial & Personnel Administration

Michaela Radler-Röck —

Head of Financial & Personnel Administration

Fariba Karimi

Dario Schranz

Evening Managers

Quirin Babl

Carina Netzer

Visitor Services

Vivienne Aubin

Johanna Hegyi

Melanie Klos

Rebekka Ludwig

Mira Meister

Paula Mudri

Helena Peter

Barbara Rojas

Noa Schaub

Zoe Schuhmann

Maira Susman

Sophia Zürneck

Cleaner

Gorica Stankovic

 

CONTACT

TQW Studios
Box office & evening box office
Body & Performance Practices
Library
Mon–Fri 9.00–19.30
Sat 10.00–19.30
except holidays
TQW Halle E+G
Evening box office
The evening box office opens one hour before showtime at the respective venue.

 

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Tanzquartier Wien GmbH
Museumsplatz 1
1070 Vienna
Austria
tqw.at
+43-1-581 35 91

Directions

We recommend arriving by bicycle or public transport:

Underground
U2 stations Museumsquartier, Volkstheater
U3 station Volkstheater

Tram and bus lines
1, 2, 71, D, 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 experienced choreographers 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. In the first half of 2025, a group of five emerging performers will get the opportunity to work with choreographer Alex Franz Zehetbauer.

2025 Participants:

Carolina Cappelli     


Carolina Cappelli is an Italian performer, filmmaker and artistic gymnastic teacher based in Vienna. After graduating in audiovisual practices at the Academy of Fine Arts of Bologna, she studied theatre and performing arts at the University of Venice (IUAV) and performing arts at Mattatoio, Rome. Her research involves the hybridisation between writing and performative and cinematic practices, generating works that usually question the context in which they’re proposed, dealing with breaking expectations and the relationship between fiction and reality, presentation and representation. In the past few years, Carolina has worked with artists such as Markus Öhrn, Francesca Grilli, Bruce Nauman and Roberto Fassone.

Snorre Elvin     


Snorre Elvin is a Copenhagen-based dancer and choreographer born in Aarhus in 1991. His work revolves around transformation, tactility, queerness, collectivity, and ecology. As a co-founder of the dance collective Danseatelier, Snorre engages in both artistic, organisational, and curatorial practices. He holds an MA in choreography and a BA in dance from the Danish National School of Performing Arts. His work has been showcased at Roskilde Festival, Rakete Festival, Det Frie Felts Festival, and Gothenburg Theatre and Dance Festival. As a dancer, he has collaborated with artists such as Michele Rizzo, Esben Weile Kjær, Sara Gebran, Daniela Georgieva, and Martin Forsberg.

Francesca Ferrari     


Francesca Ferrari is a choreographer and performer. Her artistic journey began as a child on her grandmother’s racetrack in Sicily. She studied dance, performance and critical theory in Vienna and Berlin. Francesca has presented her work at the Akademie der Künste Berlin, Zentralwäscherei Zürich, Concéntrico Architecture/Design Festival, Acud Macht Neu, and together with Luca Bonamore at brut Wien and Studio Hanniball, Berlin. She has worked as a performer for Doris Uhlich and Deva Schubert and in the field of theory for Janez Janša and Sandra Noeth at HZT Berlin. Francesca’s artistic work explores choreographies of social order in a drift through body, theory, and voice.

dengling (鄧玲) levine     


dengling (鄧玲) levine was born in China and grew up in Amsterdam. She studied expanded contemporary dance at Amsterdam University of the Arts. After her apprenticeship at Norrdans, she graduated in 2024. Her main dance background comes from a Eurocentric, contemporary and institutionalised context while also being enriched and challenged by practices outside this Western modern dance canon. dengling is confused and curious about this world, finding shelter in her imagination. Through joy and play, dengling tries to make space for dreaming and embracing undefinedness.

Ingeborg Meier Andersen     


Ingeborg Meier Andersen is a dancer, performance maker, and showgirl. Her work spans various mediums and seeks transformation through sonic, somatic movement, yearning for the body as a potent and ever-changing centrifuge. With a background in Western commercial dance and a BA in choreography from SNDO (2020), Ingeborg aims to maintain a hybrid and immediate body, striving to emancipate from rigid systems while inviting humour and rhythm as approachable ways of engaging with different mediums or topics. From opera houses to sticky basements, Ingeborg is committed to embodying and challenging the multitudes of a performing body at work.

 

Performance dates

Thu 27.02., 17.00
Alex Franz Zehetbauer / PARASOL
Open Rehearsal

Fri 14.03. / Sat 15.03., 19.30
Alex Franz Zehetbauer / PARASOL
Mouth at Each End

 

 

Networks

Tanzquartier Wien is co-shaping the future of European contemporary dance in cooperation with international institutions, festivals, and promoters.

TQW has been a European Dance Development Network (EDN) member since its inception. EDN is the largest and most prominent association of dance institutions in Europe. Additionally, TQW is a member of two flexible European networks, WEB and Be My Guest, which focus on young artists who take the genre 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.

EDN – European Dance Development Network is the European network of over 40 dance institutions aiming to promote dance as an art form and jointly develop ideas and EU projects. ednetwork.eu

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 Duncan Dance Research Center (GR), The Place (London, UK), Tanzquartier Vienna (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) u. a.

WEB is an international network for creation and presentation, operating since 2009. The network is an answer to the need for better joint efforts and partnerships within the performing arts, particularly in terms of exchange, research, production, and presentation. WEB brings together workspaces, art centres, and festivals to reinforce each other across national borders. The aim is to give integral support to two artists per year. The focus is on upcoming artists on the verge of an international breakthrough. WEB provides the artist full support from A to Z. The partners guarantee space for research and creation through a series of residencies. They offer financial, logistical, and technical support. They give administrative backup and artistic feedback during the creation process. Each collaboration culminates in a series of presentations, inside and outside the network.

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)

Be My Guest — International network for emerging practices is a European network of renowned event venues, festivals, and theatres committed to promoting groundbreaking aesthetic positions in dance, performance, and theatre. Its central concern is supporting young artists – e.g., by co-productions, residencies, guest performances, and dramaturgy advice. The network has been active since 2018 (with financial support from Pro Helvetia, among others). It has so far provided guidance to the following artists: Ulduz Ahmadzadeh (AT/IR), Olivia Csiky Trnka (CH/CZ), Madeleine Fournier (FR), Sonja Jokiniemi (FI), Myriam Lefkowitz (FR), Anne Lise Le Gac (FR), Catarina Miranda (PT). Additional points of interest are an intensive reflection on current socio-political developments and their implications for European artists and exploring these developments in performative works.

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).

PAKT WIEN – Platform of Performing Arts Centres is an association of publicly funded non-profit event venues in contemporary performing arts. It aims to facilitate cooperation, informal exchange, and networking and represent community interests vis-à-vis third parties. paktwien.at

Member institutions (in alphabetical order): Brunnenpassage, brut Wien, DAS OFF THEATER, Dschungel Wien, Kabinetttheater, Kosmos Theater, Odeon Theater, Rabenhof Theater, Schauspielhaus Wien, Schubert Theater, TAG – Theater an der Gumpendorfer Straße, Tanzquartier Wien, Theater Drachengasse, Theater Nestroyhof / HAMAKOM, Theater SPIELRAUM, Theater am Werk, WUK performing arts / WUK Kinderkultur

 

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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.

 
 
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