Festival

• Saint Abdullah • Amma Ateria • Gintė Preisaitė • Peter Kutin & Omid Darvish & Anna Lindenbaum  

• feeo • Richard Youngs • Zara Joan Miller

Nika Bauman, Maartje Pasman, Sarah Maria Dragović, Brian Lawlor Costumes and props by: Nika Vrbica (SALICULA), Ana Marković Zef is the newest music theatre piece of the multidisciplinary ensemble Synesthetic Project. At the core of the project lies the ancient story of Persephone—traditionally one of abduction, rape, a grieving mother, and the cyclical return of […]

Golnar Shahyar & Naïma Mazic Coming together in the format of MUSICAL BODIES for the first time at TAKT Festival, musician/ composer Golnar Shahyar and dancer/ choreographer Naïma Mazic are questioning dualities and life cycles. Reflections on topics such as contradictions of choice and ambivalence of feelings will find their way into the performance that […]

Stina Joliden, Cesar Carrera, Hanna Magdalena Gödl, Vida Vojić, Amanda Wisselgren The Swedish ensemble Cumulus brings one of their “shape-shifting storytelling” performancesfor the first time to Vienna. In the work Symbios, we encounter forms in motion that make the imagination dance. You are invited into a visual language communicating through shifting silhouettes - where each […]

Flora Geißelbrecht „Grandmother's Evening Gown“ is a solo music theatre piece for viola, voice and shadows. Wearing her grandmother’s evening gown and weaving her favourite song into overtone singing, Geißelbrecht moves through a world of fabric, shadows, music and memory. Handmade shadow play, translucent silk and live transformations reveal and conceal the artist in equal […]

Simone Lorenzo Benini & Miriam Budzáková In Sandpit, Simone Lorenzo Benini and Miriam Budzáková turn sand into a metaphor for the body, a vessel of infinite possibilities, exploring the ambiguity of our memories, which are often vague and blend with imagination, fears and desires. The body becomes a medium through which memories come to life. […]

Echoes of Softness is a concert that is not only heard but felt, moved through and inhabited. Organ, electronics, voice and movement merge into a spatial body of sound that unfolds throughout the church. Cushions, blankets and soft islands replace rigid rows, inviting the audience to lie down, move, listen and remain. Led by Valeria […]

  WHAT THE WATER CARRIES | 23.10. | Erlöserkirche am Schüttel ROBERT POCKFUSS (AT) ALEKSANDRA SŁYŻ (PL) TRANSIENT FIELDS (World premiere) Robert Pockfuß, electric guitar, composition Matthias Giesen, organ Aleksandra Słyż (PL) solo concert, Vienna premiere  

Sounding Cosmopoetic Rhythms: Time and Temporal Agency Brandon LaBelle How are individuals and communities situated within time? What does it mean to be on time, or to keep time? And which time signatures dominate to define the movements and rhythms of society? We’ll engage these questions, bringing critical and creative attention to time and struggles […]

The Other Shore turns towards states of transition: between presence and anticipation, sound and silence, what has already taken form and what remains possible. Presented within the resonant architecture of the Glaubenskirche, the evening opens a space for listening to uncertainty, emergence and transformation. In relation to the festival theme WHERE WATER GATHERS, the other […]