The [8:tension] Young Choreographers’ Series is once again bringing the next generation of choreographers to Vienna this summer. The eleven works by choreographers from countries including Brazil, Belgium, France, Greece, Austria, Italy and Estonia will be shown at Odeon, Schauspielhaus, WUK, mumok – Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Halle G and Künstlerhaus Factory. On 11 August, the ImPulsTanz – Young Choreographers’ Award, endowed with 5,000 euro and an artistic residency, will be presented to one of them.
Photo: Jetta Loona Hermains & Anna Ansone FrostBite © Edgards Drusts
French choreographer Maud Le Pladec can be seen for the first time at ImPulsTanz with her piece Silent Legacy, in which 11-year-old Adeline Kerry Cruz and her mentor Jr Maddripp, who also teaches a workshop this year, take Krump to the stage. With Make Banana Cry, Andrew Tay and Stephen Thompson playfully and critically reckon with the Western concept of ‘being Asian’. And Lucy Guerin is a guest with a double feature of Split and How To Be Us.
Photo: Maud Le Pladec – Silent Legacy © César Vayssié