ImPulsTanz Vienna International Dance Festival is a major contemporary dancefestival held in Vienna, Austria each year. It gathers thousands of professional dancers, choreographers and teachers for a five-week program of performance, research projects and workshops.
It was started by Karl Regensburger and choreographer Ismael Ivo in 1984 as the "Internationale Tanzwochen Wien" with dance teachers including Joe Alegado, Germaine Acogny and Walter Raines.
In 1988 it took the name "ImPulsTanz Vienna International Dance Festival" with works by Wim Vandekeybus, Marie Chouinard and Mark Tompkins.
It set up danceWEB Europe[1] in 1996, initially as a scholarship program and now facilitating sharing ideas and knowledge, further training and gathering renowned artists
The Museumsquartier (MQ) is a 90,000 m2 large area in the 7th district of the city of Vienna, Austria.
danceWEB Europe is a non profit association of dance organisations based in Vienna, Austria led by "danceWEB/Vienna". Funded under the "Culture 2000 programme of the European Union" in 2002 to 31 May 2005 with a community grant of €900,000 and in 2005 up to 31 May 2008 with a community grant of €900,000. to develop contemporary dance throughout Europe and to link the international dance scene and education, enhancing dialogue between cultures.
Michael Laub is an avant-garde stage director, contemporary dance choreographer and video artist. His work has notably been shown at the Venice Biennale of 1984, the Festival d'Avignon of 2005, the Burgtheater in 2011, and several times at ImPulsTanz Vienna International Dance Festival and Hebbel am Ufer (HAU) Berlin. He has often been described as a minimalist and "one of the founding fathers of anti-illusionist theater".
Heike Hennig is a German dancer, choreographer and director of the opera and dance ensemble "Heike Hennig & Co".
DanceAbility International is a dance company that trains inclusive dance teachers worldwide, as well as offering Youth Outreach and education programs, and performances. DanceAbility promotes contemporary dance performance that mixes able and disabled dancers in the same performances. This dance genre is often called "inclusive dance", "MixedAbility" or "physically integrated dance".
Mark N Tompkins, is a French artist, dancer and choreographer of contemporary dance.
Andrea Amort is an Austrian dance critic, dance historian, playwright, festival and exhibition curator as well as a non-fiction writer.
Hanna Berger was an Austrian dancer, choreographer, teacher, director, theatre director, writer and lifelong anti-Nazi and communist. She was described as part of the free dance movement.
Kō Murobushi was a Japanese dancer and choreographer who was a leading inheritor of Tatsumi Hijikata's original vision of Butoh.
Mary Overlie was an American choreographer, dancer, theater artist, professor, author, and the originator of the Six Viewpoints technique for theater and dance. The Six Viewpoints technique is both a philosophical articulation of postmodern performance and a teaching system addressing directing, choreographing, dancing, acting, improvisation, and performance analysis. The Six Viewpoints has been taught in the core curriculum of the Experimental Theater Wing within Tisch School of the Arts at New York University since its inception (1978).
Christine De Smedt is a Belgian dancer and choreographer. Her artistic work is situated on the boundary between dance / performance, choreography, artistic coordination and artistic projects of various kinds.
Mark Lorimer is a British dancer and choreographer, best known for his work with the Brussels-based choreographers Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker and Thomas Hauert.
Eleanor Bauer is an American choreographer and dancer.
Hans Van den Broeck is a Belgian dancer, choreographer and video artist who is best known for his productions for les ballets C de la B and SOIT.
Jefta van Dinther is a Dutch-Swedish choreographer and dancer. Today van Dinther lives and works in Berlin and Stockholm.
Editta Braun is an Austrian choreographer, stage dancer, dance pedagogue as well as founder and director of the Salzburg dance company Editta Braun Company. She is known as a pioneer of contemporary dance in Austria and chairwoman of tanz_house, the association of freelance choreographers based in Salzburg.
Nina Martin is an American choreographer, dancer, and pedagogue. Originally from Austin, Texas, Martin moved to New York City, where she lived for 17 years. She currently resides in Fort Worth, Texas.
Shelley Senter is an American dancer, dance teacher, and Alexander Technique practitioner. Originally from Denver, Colorado, she moved to New York City to dance with the Trisha Brown Dance Company.
Dana Michel is a choreographer and performer based in Montreal. She is part of the contemporary dance company Par B.L.eux founded by Benoît Lachambre.
Darling Au'saun Aya "Shear" Squire is an American dancer and choreographer.
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