From 2022 to 2025 I have been curating the theory programme of Tanzquartier Wien as a space for producing, sharing, discussing, interrogating dance and performance theory, and for interweaving critical theory with dance and performance practice.
With:
Alexandra Baybutt · Anıl Altıntaş · Ariella Aïsha Azoulay · Arjuna Neuman · Avery Gordon · Biljana Tanurovska · Denise Ferreira da Silva · Eike Wittrock · Elizabeth Povinelli · Eva Egermann · Felicia McCarren · Gerko Egert · Graham St John · Guy Cools · Helen Hester · Hil Malatino · Igor Koruga · Imani Kai Johnson · Ina Holub · Jette Büchsenschütz · Joyraj Bhattacharjee · Laura Anderson Barbata · Maaike Bleeker · Margarete Jahrmann · Mariama Diagne · Mariella Greil · Matthew Huber · McKenzie Wark · Muslim*Contemporary · Nanako Nakajima · Our*Bodies · Pauline L. Boulba · Performatorium (Olivia Jaques and Marlies Surtmann) · Rebecca Schneider · Qalqalah (represented by Salma Mochtari and Virginie Bobin) · Sandra Chatterjee · Sianne Ngai
As well as:
A little bit further down and to the side (Winter School / 2023): three days of workshops, symposia, discussions and more on dance and performance in Southern and Eastern Europe and the Mediterranean. With: Sevi Bayraktar, Olia Sosnovskaya, Kinga Szemessy, Domokos Kovàcs, Steriani Tsintziloni, Rok Vevar, Mariem Guellouz, Ulduz Ahmadzadeh, Maria Vlachou and Nicholas Rowe. Three-episode podcast based on the Winter School here, here and here.
Dance Class (Winter School / 2024): three days of workshops, conferences, lectures, discussions, performances and DJ sets on class/ism in the performing arts. With: Livia Kojo Alour, Josephine Findeisen, Tomislav Medak, Trajche Janushev & Alina-Michelle Seiler (Red Edition), Julischka Stengele, Myassa Kraitt, Susie Flowers, Luis Murillo Zuñiga aka La Terre’, Sheezus ‘Herr Rum Hurn’ Christin, Priyonnath Manna Bustee Community Kitchen and Rosamaria Cisneros. Three-episode podcast based on the Winter School here, here and here.
Tress_passing (2024): experimental gathering at the crossover of Passover seder and contemporary performance, exploring artistic research practices on critical, intersectional, diasporic Jewishness. With: Ben Spatz and Adi Liraz.
Bad ballet (2024): a four-hour (bad) ballet masterclass including a twist on the Nutcracker, followed by a lecture on underacknowledged pop ballet histories. With: Elizabeth Ward, Kevin Fay, Andrew Champlin, Anna Leon.
Don’t trace no lines (Winter School / 2025): two days of workshops, film screenings, discussions and concerts exploring performative, embodied, discursive practices of diaspora and articulating the urgent necessity of the in-between. With: Noit Banai, Mariama Diagne, Cana Bilir-Meier, Karin Cheng, EsRAP (Esra & Enes Özmen), Ayesha Hameed, Monika Halkort, Raisa Kabir, Girishya Stella Kurazikubone, Susana Ojeda and Miriam Schickler.