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ImPulsTanz 2009: Alice Chauchat – The Love Piece

The Love Piece is one of the more unique pieces in the 2009 ImPulsTanz festival: it is entirely experiential and completely different every time it is played and for every participant.

The creators and cast of The Love Piece provide an environment and a context and the rest is up to you.

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The Love Piece: Where it all happens

The experience for the most part is positive, but as I wrote the quality of your experience depends mainly on you and what you bring to that evening.

Here’s what the program says about the piece. This much is public knowledge:

The Love Piece unfolds along a loose score that can described as: there as many audience members as performers. As they come in, audience members are each taken by the ahand by a performer, who for the duration of the show ‘give love’ to his/her audience. What such a love can be, is the stake of the piece. Love songs are playing the whole time.

There are just 10 performers – so very few people had the opportunity to experience The Love Piece. I was one of that fortunate 100 and will reveal the details to you about my own visit.

*** SPOILERS FOLLOW – PLEASE DO not read farther ***
*** if you expect to attend The Love piece personally ***

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ImPulsTanz 2009: Dionysian Opening Party

The ImPulsTanz party came a bit late this year, on the second weekend of the festival but on a glorious Saturday night following the second performance of Wim Vandekeybus’s Nieuzwart. The Ultima Vez crew was out in force again although not dancing quite as frenetically as in 2006 where they effectively put on a second show.


The evening seemed quite tranquil with a typical hip hop turn at the tables from DJ DSL. I’m more of a DJ Indigo trancey sort of a chap but the crowd seemed to respond well to DSL’s hiphop. The Kasino at Schwarzenbergplatz was just too hot though. Unfortunately for historical preservation rules, they can’t open the windows and the ventilation is just enough.

In the back room, at three in the morning, a magical Dionysian moment took place. Inspired by one beautiful pair, the dancers men and women shed their shirts and just drifted into the zone. I caught the atmosphere I could.

I sometimes try to explain to people how a year without ImPulsTanz is like a year in prison. Perhaps these photos explain better the extraordinary explosion of passion and freedom and movement which is ImPulsTanz than any words.

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Wien Sud – Vienna’s Industrial South End

Vienna is a beautiful city. When you spend time in the central districts or in the north of the city, you might think it is the greenest place on earth, hardly a city at all.

The city’s most prestigious districts are all to the north: Döbling, the 19th district.

But if you go south it’s another story. Here are some photographs from the south of Vienna. Wien Sud is all railway tracks, ports, canals and airports. Even electrical plants and oil tanks (no pictures of the oil tanks this time).

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wien energie
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wien docks crane

 

The two photos above are not strange crops but enormous panoramas. More info, including large files.

There is a sort of strange beauty in industrial landscape so this post should not be seen as a condemnation but an investigation into the Vienna’s industrial look.

 

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