ImPulsTanz 2024

For the first time, mumok developed a performance festival with ImPulsTanz titled nowhere / now here curated by Marianne Dobner (mumok) and Christine Standfest (ImPulsTanz). The title connects historical film material with a live program: What is created in one instance disappears in the next, only to reappear in a different medium elsewhere.
 

The festival begins at mumok with Glitch Choir by Deva Schubert. Eszter Salamon brings two live performances, Dance for Nothing (revisited) and MONUMENT 0.7: M/OTHERS, offering a new version of her homage to John Cage and a duet with her mother, from her series on a different culture of remembrance. Davi Pontes and Wallace Ferreira return with Repertório N2, extending their trilogy on dance as Black self-defense with Repertório N3. Geumhyung Jeong transforms her works into an equally uncanny choreography of the singular body, while Dana Michel meditates on the (un)fortunes of a workday with strange humour. Trajal Harrell speculates with full affect on the kinship between Butoh legend Tatsumi Hijikata and one of the greats of Afro-American choreography, Katherine Dunham. Ian Kaler's installation develops an emphatic dance between past and present memories, time levels, and moments.