Sat 18.10.2025 // 19.00
In cooperation with netzwerkTanz Vorarlberg
Photo: Theresa Wey
Sat 18.10.2025 // 19.00
Work-in-progress showing at openSpace 2025, TiK Dornbirn, Jahngasse 10, 6850 Dornbirn
23. & 30. September, 7. & 14. October 2025
tanzTraining at tanzRaum netzwerkTanz, Annagasse 5, 6850 Dornbirn
Fri 14.11.2025 // 19.30
Work-in-progress showing as part of a shared evening at Im_flieger, Bräuhausgasse 40, 1050 Vienna
More here.
CHANGING SPACES Vienna–Vorarlberg 2025
Im_flieger Vienna in cooperation with netzwerkTanz
Residency in Dornbirn: 22.9.–19.10.2025
More about netzwerkTanz here.
Work-in-progress showing
SOLACE (working title) emerges from a year-long dialogue between artists Michele Chu (Hong Kong) and Sara Lanner (Vienna), who met in 2022 during a residency in Hong Kong. Through voice memos, images, and sound recordings exchanged across 10,000 kilometers, they explore themes of comfort and consolation – both in their artistic practices and personal lives.
Consolation, a deeply human and psychological phenomenon, sustains us from childhood to old age, offering resilience in the face of life’s challenges. During their remote residency, Chu and Lanner imagine spaces of solace – reflecting on how physical and aesthetic experiences can foster collective comfort.
Artistic direction: Michele Chu & Sara Lanner
Performance, choreography: Sara Lanner
Text: Michele Chu, Sara Lanner
Video footage: Michele Chu
Dramaturgical support: Marco Santi
Thanks to: netzwerkTanz, Im_flieger
Training
Contemporary Flow & Partnering
Level: Advanced
Based on the fundamental elements of contemporary dance such as rebound, slide, suspension, and impulse, we develop expansive, dynamic choreographies in this class. Participants are encouraged to explore their own individual expression. Fixed movement sequences, with an emphasis on anatomical precision, are alternated with playful improvisational exercises. Occasionally, effective basic movements from “contemporary partnering” are also introduced in order to jump higher, fly further, and amplify movement impulses. Our spontaneity is challenged and our sensory perception of musicality and rhythm is sharpened. The orientation of our body in space and in relation to the other dancers is given high priority, so that the experiences we gain can also be transferred to our everyday lives.
Fotos: openSpace 2025 © Sarah Mistura
Sara Lanner (AT) (*1991) is a choreographer and visual artist based in Vienna. In her work she deals with questions of cultural and (body) linguistic identity and explores spaces between trust and dependency. The ambivalences of interpersonal relationships and their points of contact as well as our material and ecological realities form the beginnings of her artistic reflections. Most recently, her dance performance WEAVING INFRASTRUCTURES (2024) was shown at brut Wien and Mining Minds (2022) at the ImPulsTanz Festival. For her work MINE (2021), Sara Lanner was awarded the H13 Lower Austria Prize for Performance. Further presentations: Tanzquartier Wien, Kunstraum Niederösterreich, Galerie 5020 Salzburg, Neue Galerie/BRUSEUM Graz, MIPAF Macau/China, HART Haus Hongkong, Künstlerhaus Nürnberg, OK Offenes Kulturhaus Linz, among others. www.saralanner.com