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1. Mar. 2025 //19:30
Premiere

3. Mar. 2025 //19:30
4. Mar. 2025 //19:30

Johann Strauss 2025 Wien
REAKTOR

The term “social dance,” traditionally associated with the waltz, proves unexpectedly productive in this context, as the social – and therefore political – dimensions of ostensibly entertaining and leisurely techniques are given particular emphasis. The dark sequences explore issues of authority and class, offering an associative analysis of Michel Foucault’s “microphysics of power,” that ominous interplay of everyday forces of tension and pressure acting upon bodies and subjects.

The performance unfolds as a gallery of images reflecting desires and fears, followed by a ballroom of sensory deception. In the visual spaces of this performance, a series of perceptual experiments take place. The images shift, unhurriedly, not so much accompanied by their mysterious soundtracks as clinically dissected by them. The art forms intertwine, blending choreography with cinema, sculptural and painterly elements, and musical compositions in a carefully choreographed swirl of media.