All Im_flieger SUPPORTS artists 2026.
Photo: Paola Lesslhumer
Upon request and subject to availability, Im_flieger provides selected artists with workspace – including technical equipment – free of charge or at a low cost as well as optional artistic, technical, and logistical coaching.
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violet glace // Flóra Boros (HU/AT)
9 dates in January 2026 // Research, rehearsal // Premiere: January 29, 2026, WUK
Flóra Boros choreographs a space that is intentionally ambiguous — a room where sensuality does not demand explanation or erotic readability. This solo unfolds like a slow-burn asexual romance and invites the audience to experience a gaze that lingers without devouring. Drawing inspiration from flashy 90’s and 00’s pop music videos, sultry dance routines emerge, only to be stripped down and recontextualized, allowing the body to move, sweat, and exist without being an object of desire. Boros desexualizes choreographies one hair flip at a time, eroding lustful gestures through repetition. Questioning how we stare, sexualize and objectify, violet glace brings asexual representation to the forefront. And the background. And all the subtly sensuous spaces in between.
KLУNP [ˈklunp] // Sveta Schwin (RU/AT)
13 dates, January – April 2026 // Research
As KLУNP, Sveta Schwin encounters an Other that emerges from her actions. The self: origin and echo. Paper is the seam between doing and understanding. In milky white, the familiar tilts into the strange, becoming possibility. In the astonished gaze, the self transcends itself. A performance about invention and recognition, about the porous line between inside and outside — and about how much of the world a body can bear.
State Funded Piece of Meat // Jackson Carroll (CA/AT)
10 dates, February/March 2026 // Research
State Funded Piece of Meat was meant to be a satirical look at Austria’s immigration politics told through a solo dance performance with stand-up comedy. That would have been a very poignant performance piece! I’m not sure what the piece is at this point. The process has been unpredictable and is very much ongoing, subverting its own cause while somehow managing to maintain contact with its original intention. Through the lens of my own personal experiences with Austria’s immigration office MA 35, and by exploring meeting points between dance, semantics, and comedy, these become portals to share in the experience of being a “foreign” body in Austria. State Funded Piece of Meat still struggles to deal with the absurdity of immigration politics as well as general feelings of alienation and “strange”ness.
mirrors, a football and the back of my hand // Marlene Aigner (AT), Coralie Neumann (Bénard) (FR/AT), Bibi Bauer (DE)
13 dates, March – August 2026 // Research
Our research deals with dissecting the layers of experience, influence, and societal expectations that shape the transition from youth to adulthood. How have we learned to relate to each other, what do we have in common while growing up differently, and how do we want to relate to each other? Through acts of sharing we want to shed light onto past dynamics and create healthier relationships with ourselves and each other. Alongside, we are questioning how terminology influences this process, particularly in the context of being socialized as women*.
(Artists are added on an ongoing basis)
Bibi Bauer (DE) is a freelance dance artist. Moving in different fields of dance expands her perspectives from various angles, enriching each other: Being a contemporary dancer and performer, a pedagogue, working as a video editor, and supporting community and trauma-transformational theatre productions as a choreographic assistant in Bosnia. She has developed a deep joy and curiosity for improvising and the interconnections between the moving practice and life itself.
Coralie Neumann (Bénard) (FR/AT) is a Vienna based artist. Currently working as a dancer in Liquid Loft under the artistic direction of Chris Haring. In her own work she seeks to create pieces that resonate on an emotional level, capturing the complexity of human nature, its social issues and its relationships. Her choreographies explore the raw and vulnerable aspects of humanity, inviting the audience and dancer(s) to connect on a deeper level.
Flóra Boros (HU/AT) is an independent performing artist and choreographer based in Vienna and Budapest. Her works have been presented at venues such as Kaaitheater, WUK, Muffathalle, Theater Akzent and Schwere Reiter as well as various festivals. With her first solo performance CINDY, she received the START scholarship from the Austrian Ministry of Culture in 2022, as well as the ATLAS scholarship at ImPulsTanz festival. She completed her studies at the Music and Arts University of Vienna in 2021, with her thesis winning a scholarship from the City of Vienna, serving as theoretical research for CINDY. Her current artistic practice explores intimacy, liberation from a queer perspective, and the directing of the gaze to question how the body conveys embodied narratives beyond normative structures.
Jackson Carroll (CA/AT) is a Canadian dance artist currently based in Vienna. After an extensive career as a dancer for classical institutions internationally, most recently the Vienna State Ballet, Jackson has now shifted his focus elsewhere. He is a frequent collaborator of Chris Haring at Liquid Loft, as well as teaching regularly at TanzQuartier Wien. He also worked as choreographer for David Schalko’s “Braunschlag 1986”. In addition to his dance practice, Jackson occasionally performs stand-up comedy and produces DIY films under the pseudonym Anus Varda.
Marlene Aigner (AT) is a dancer and performer living in Vienna. She received her bachelor’s degree in contemporary dance from the Anton Bruckner University in Linz in 2023. During her studies she participated in an Erasmus exchange at the Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen. Over the past years she has gained various experiences as a freelancer working for Doris Uhlich, Jan Lauwers and Ceren Oran. At the moment her personal and artistic interests revolve around the relationality of human and more-than-human bodies, the political potential of physical touch and the possibility of becoming beyond identity through movement-based practices of care and vulnerability.
Sveta Schwin (RU/AT) born in Siberia in 1984, living in Vienna since 2007. Studied performing arts in Bremen and theater, film, and media studies as well as philosophy in Vienna. Schwin writes and directs plays for children, teenagers, and adults (Dschungel Wien, Konzerthaus, Theater Spielraum, Kabelwerk, among others) and works as a light designer, primarily on dance and performance productions. She creates her own light objects and installations. www.svetaschwin.at