Editorial October–December 2024
Dear audience, dear artists,
The coming months at TQW will be rebellious, highly emotive, filled with music and tell personal dance (hi)stories.
We kick off the season in October with uncompromising non-European feminist voices: Taking the archetypal and misogynistically charged female figures of the ‘witch’ and the ‘housemaid’ as a starting point, Eisa Jocson and Venuri Perera put European witch-hunting into context with the exploitation of female labour from the Global South, evoking the power of female solidarity in the process. During the advent of the #metoo movement in Egypt, the young choreographic duo nasa4nasa created a piece that is both alluring and furious at the same time. NO MERCY is shown at TQW Studios and comes with a healthy dose of empowerment.
Many of our projects in autumn focus on musical collaborations and strong emotions. The new group piece by Veza Fernández, along with live music by Tony Wagner (aka Tony Renaissance), gets under your skin by exposing what’s hidden underneath. Sorour Darabi presents his most ambitious project to date in the form of a contemporary opera performance that is both seductive and deeply touching, revelling in the queer promises of an endless night. Music, dance and gut feeling come together in Zeynab Kirikou Gueye’s and Lau Lukkarila’s joint stage work: Hold yr ache 2 my ache explores the emotionality of the body and we are certain that there won’t be a dry eye in the house.
The theory programme focuses on affects, too, for example in the context of trans* studies and criticism of capitalism in lectures by Hil Malatino and Sianne Ngai. And, as this piece left nobody cold, Marta Navaridas’ magnificent roller coaster of emotions, MANIFESTATIONS, will be shown again at the end of the year.
In this year’s collaboration with Wien Modern, Eva-Maria Schaller choreographs memories from a dancer’s biography for an opera-ballet to a new composition by Matthias Kranebitter, interpreted by the virtuoso Black Page Orchestra under conductor Irene Delgado-Jiménez. Elizabeth Ward and the TQW dance group PARASOL rock the foundations of their individual dance (hi)stories. RUSH, another highlight in December, is Mette Ingvartsen’s tribute to 20 years of her intimate collaboration with performer Manon Santkin.
There is something else you should not miss: Claudia Bosse covers the theatre space with her haunted landscape/s in the latest part of her series, and Lisa Hinterreithner creates a performative refuge for padded.
And we hope you will join us in celebrating the season’s opening with LO AND BEHOLD, the series of events curated by Lewon Heublein, this time featuring British artist Klein with a new album and a long-awaited performance in Vienna.
We look forward to seeing you at Tanzquartier Wien
Bettina Kogler, Artistic Director and Programme
Carolina Nöbauer, Programme