“Rethinking movement, reconsidering movement. Lots of movement, no more retreat.
Because new movement languages must be found. And to do so, we must understand our bodies again, reclaim them, in order to bring these bodies to dance. Or has that always been the task of ‘contemporary dance’?” (Philipp Gehmacher) The starting material for this new solo is a dance that keeps dancing, allows barely any pauses, that searches for rhythm and steps. After many years, the Viennese choreographer and dancer Philipp Gehmacher is once again turning increasingly towards the pleasure of dancing. Interspersed – a speech, almost a manifesto: How to speak about dance today, how to speak about the madness of this world today? On level -2 at mumok, within the architecture of the abandoned studio of Georgian artist Tolia Astakhishvili, we encounter a virtuosic sensuality that – in a variation on the title of an earlier work by Gehmacher at mumok, Die Dinge der Welt – movingly and anew poses the question of “the bodies of the world”. Heartrending music included. “For what has been and what wants to come”.

World Premiere
Duration: 60 Min
In English.