Dance 
Tanz Company Gervasi (AT)

two steps back

Elio Gervasi

founded Tanz Company Gervasi in Vienna over 30 years ago, after having worked as a dancer with Peter Goss and Merce Cunningham. In addition to choreographies for major institutions such as the Vienna State Opera Ballet and the Saarland State Theatre, his pieces have been shown at many international festivals.

Elio Gervasi has received many awards, including the Austrian Dance Production Prize in 2003. He holds the position of Adviser for the Performing Arts at the Federal Chancellery of Austria.

Credits

Artistic direction, choreography 
Elio Gervasi 
Dancers 
Nathalie Baert, Laura Beschi, Arnaud Blondel, Laurent Delom de Mezerac, Alexandra Pholien, Evgeniya Glazunova, Hannah Timbrell, Riccardo de Simone, Sherise Strang, Lia Ujcic 
Choreographic assistance 
Alberto Franceschini 
Stage 
Valter Esposito 
Light design 
Markus Schwarz 
Sound engineering 
Albert Castello 
Composition and live music 
Michael Bruckner and Albert Costello 
Dramaturgy 
Karl Baratta 
Management 
Franziska Zaida Schrammel 
Production 
Tanz Company Gervasi 


With support from the Municipal Department of Cultural Affairs, Vienna, and the Arts Section at the Federal Chancellery of Austria.

 

two steps back

Ten young dancers quietly follow the trail of flamenco in Elio Gervasi’s group choreography, searching for a balance between the individual and the collective. In a frenzy, passion unites with self-determination, political posturing with street dance. The starting point of two steps back are spontaneous messages of the performers that are painted like graffiti on the stage walls. To live music oscillating between guitar solos and abstract drones, the group explores its own collectivity and looks for the personal freedoms of the individual. In the course of the piece various alliances and overlaps are emerging between the bodies and spatial dimensions which do not (want to) allow a way out of the collective but at the same time offer ever new in-between spaces.

Elio Gervasi

founded Tanz Company Gervasi in Vienna over 30 years ago, after having worked as a dancer with Peter Goss and Merce Cunningham. In addition to choreographies for major institutions such as the Vienna State Opera Ballet and the Saarland State Theatre, his pieces have been shown at many international festivals.

Elio Gervasi has received many awards, including the Austrian Dance Production Prize in 2003. He holds the position of Adviser for the Performing Arts at the Federal Chancellery of Austria.

Credits

Artistic direction, choreography 
Elio Gervasi 
Dancers 
Nathalie Baert, Laura Beschi, Arnaud Blondel, Laurent Delom de Mezerac, Alexandra Pholien, Evgeniya Glazunova, Hannah Timbrell, Riccardo de Simone, Sherise Strang, Lia Ujcic 
Choreographic assistance 
Alberto Franceschini 
Stage 
Valter Esposito 
Light design 
Markus Schwarz 
Sound engineering 
Albert Castello 
Composition and live music 
Michael Bruckner and Albert Costello 
Dramaturgy 
Karl Baratta 
Management 
Franziska Zaida Schrammel 
Production 
Tanz Company Gervasi 


With support from the Municipal Department of Cultural Affairs, Vienna, and the Arts Section at the Federal Chancellery of Austria.

 
19.10./
20.10.
Fri/​Sat
19.30
19.10./
20.10.
Fri/​Sat
19.30
TQW Halle G
€ 20/15/10

With the ticket for two steps back the performance BSTRD is only € 5. Available at the TQW box office.

 

 
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