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Fall 2024: HEXEN on Tour in AUT and CH
After two wonderful performances at "Kultursommer Wien"-Festival this August, we are happy to announce that HEXEN will be touring to "Tanz in Bern"-Festival at
Dampfzentrale Bern in Switzerland and to "InTaKT Festival" in Graz this November.
We´ll soon update you with all links and details!
Until then us witches wish you a magic start into a Fall 2024!
"Wein, Weib und Gesang" and "FEVER" are back!
I can´t wait to be back with "Wein, Weib und Gesang" - choreographed by Grete Wiesenthal in 1922 and transmitted by Susanne Kirnbauer-Bundy - and my Solo "FEVER" to the
outstanding song "Magic Wall" by Verena Zeiner und Wolfgang Schlögl.
The performance will happen in the frame of a lecture performance/talk together with Dr. Andrea Amort in Gmunden at Villa Toscana on March 23rd at 19:30.
Find more details HERE!
Imagetanz Festival: Sharing my Research on Artistic Audiodescription
In the frame of "The Art of Access"-conference, which will happen on March 16th as part of this year´s Imagetanz Festival at brut and is organized by Tanja Erhart,
Julischka Stengele and Hanna Steinmair - I am happy to share my research and knowledge on Artistic Audiodescription in a keynote and a panel-discussion with amazing
experts.
Come and join - the entrance is free and there will be breaks, chill-out-zones, food, time to exchange and dive deep.
ACCESS IS LOVE!
Find more details HERE!
Premiere 2024: Im Orbit
The Premiere in May 2024 of our new performance Im Orbit created by our tanz.sucht.theater-Crew was a huge success and we are so happy we pushed boundaries by
creating an Outdoor-Performance for Young Audience with Creative Audiodescription!
Thanks to the most amazing team!
Credits:
Künstlerische Leitung: Katharina Senk
Tanz, Text, Choreografie, Performance: Iris Omari Ansong, Yuria Knoll, Maartje Pasman, Katharina Senk
Sound-Design und Komposition: Mbatjiua Hambira
Kostüm und Ausstattung: Julia Trybula
Dramaturgie: Sina Heiss
Technische Beratung: Manu Mitterhuber
Technischer Support: Zeynab Kirikou Gueye
Access-Beraterin für sehbehindertes Publikum: Theresa Scheinecker
Produktion und künstlerische Assistenz: Wibke Scheler
Fotos: Hanna Fasching
Film und Trailer: Benjamin Skalet
Space-Guides: Elena Verena Lach, Stella Radovan, Wibke Scheler
Sprecher*innen: Emma Wiederhold, Ivana Urban, Emre Cakir, Isra Doghman, Nenda Neururer
Mit freundlicher Unterstützung der MA7 Kulturabteilung der Stadt Wien und des BMKÖS.
HEXEN back in Vienna!
Die HEXEN sind im Jänner 2024 wieder zurück im Dschungel Wien!!!
Nach unseren ausverkauften Vorstellungen im September 2022 und einer wunderschönen Hexen-Tour 2023, freuen wir uns sehr auf eine magische Rückkehr nach Wien!
Nähere Infos zum Stück und Tickets findest du hier:
https://www.dschungelwien.at/event/hexen
Research on Artistic Audiodescription
It´s almost end of October and I already got to research with great-experts on Artistic Audiodescription for Dance and Performance within my Scholarship by the City of Vienna. In September I got
to follow Fia Neises and her work, right now I´m at Kampnagel in Hamburg following Ursina Tossi and her team of artists on their journey of creating adance-piece, that is also fully accessible to
blind audiences.
I´m curious where this will continue to go and I´m very excited for doing my first audio-description for amazing Michael Turinsky on the tour to Belgium of his performance SOILED in November.
Catch HEXEN on Tour!
HEXEN is touring!
We are so happy to bewitch you soon!
Warmest invitation to our upcoming touring dates:
HEXEN goes SCHÄXPIR-Festival in Linz on June 21st at 10:00 and 17:30
More Details here:
Magic in Linz!
HEXEN goes SPECTRUM-Festival in Villach on July 7th at 19:00
More Details here:
Magic in Villach!
"B**oomB!" at VORBRENNER Innsbruck
Sina Heiss, Alexander Yannilos, Mia Shen and me have just finished over a week of residency and two exciting work-in-progress-showings sharing the status-quo of our project "B**oomB! -
Burn the Shit out of me, Baby!" at VORBRENNER Innsbruck.
What a week! What a team! What a generous audience!
For more details about on of my dearest projects guided by amazing Sina Heiss please have a look HERE!
HEXEN is nominated for a STELLA-Award
HEXEN are nominated in the category of "Most outstanding Production for Children" for a STELLA-Award by ASSITEJ Austria this year.
We feel very honored and can´t wait for the big Gala on October 6th in Linz!
Also: Soon we´ll be able to announce new HEXEN-Touring dates. And we will be back at Dschungel Wien in January 2024. Loads of magic waiting for you!
Bliss. A Thing of the Past? An Appropriation.
So much can be said about our piece "Glückselig. War gestern, oder? Eine Aneignung" by Lebendiges Tanzarchiv Wien and initiated by Andrea Amort- an
absolutely amazing dance-project involving so many different generations of dance-artists, tracing Grete Wiesenthals heritage, dealing with pasts, presents and futures.
I´m so grateful for having had the chance to be part of it and for three sold-out performances at brut Wien.
new and exciting collaborations in 2023
Announcing beautiful premieres and projects for 2023:
30th of March at brut Wien: Karnutsch/Pichler/Schaller and Senk in "Bliss. A thing of the Past?" inspired by historic Grete Wiesenthal and
initiated by Andrea Amort, who brought all of us artists together. Find more Details about Bliss here.
27th of April at Dschungel Wien:
SCHREI by Kollektiv kunststoff
in a choreography by Raffaela Gras
And I´m very happy to continue working with the Alexandri-Sisters: Austrias amazing Olympic Athletes in Synchronized Swimming! And supporting them in their dance-routines
outside of the water.
RED NOSES: artistic research lab
This was one of the most awesome projects of 2022:
Together with amazing colleagues I got to co-direct an artistic research lab for RED NOSES Clowndoctors International investigating the connections of Clowning, Music and
Movement in Healthcare.
I´m so amazed by the outcomes and I hope to share more of it soon with you. Thanks to Maggie Rössler and her team for making this possible. And big Senkilove for each and every participant!
Check out RED NOSES´ work here:
https://www.rednoses.eu/
happy senki: arbeitsstipendium 2023
Very honoured to announce I was awarded the Arbeitsstipendium-Scholarship by the MA7 - Kulturabteilung der Stadt Wien - for
2023. I will focus on Audio-Description and it´s connection to Dance - and the fact this practice is not yet established in Vienna - and how to change this for the better! Access is Love!
Can´t wait to deep-dive into my research next year. Danke, Stadt Wien!
HEXEN: trailer is out!
One month ago we premiered HEXEN at Dschungel Wien. HEXEN is a dance-theatre-piece by tanz.sucht.theater for young Audience (8+) and translated into Austrian Sign Language on stage.
Thanks for the best team ever to make this magic possible!
Idee, Choreografie, Performance: Maartje Pasman, Yuria Knoll, Iris Omari Ansong, Katharina Senk
Kostüm, Bühne: Julia Trybula
Licht: Hannes Röbisch
Zauberkunst: Thomas Thalhammer
Produktionsleitung: Dušana Baltić
Dolmetscher:innen: Elke Schaumberger, Georg Marsh
Film/Trailerschnitt: Benjamin Skalet
Musik im Trailer: „Peeping Thom“ von TWEAKS
Mit freundlicher Unterstützung von Verein Moritz, MA7 - Kulturabteilung der Stadt Wien und BMKÖS
schmusechor x senki
Huge gratitude for the collaboration with amazing Schmusechor and Verena Giesinger in the past years and the
next step of it: Our collective performance at communale OÖ in Eferding - with choreographies from me expanding
the schmusechor-experience!
You fill my heart with all the feelings - thank you, Schmusechor!
super[human] goes communale oö
super[human] is back in a new and exciting version for communale oö in Eferding curated by amazing Julia Ransmayr!
Performances on 29th, 30th and 31st of July with Yuria Knoll, Iris Omari Ansong, Maartje Pasman and myself.
The cyborgs are back - and dancing!
Check out the details here:
https://communale.at/programm
Choreography for Schmusechor
Very happy I got to choreograph the most amazing Schmusechor-Coverversion of Backstreet Boys´ "I want it that way". More great music and movement is in the making!
What a big pleasure working with Schmusechor was to me and how deeply they make my heart dance with their voices! Danke.
We cyborged Geneva!
We had a wonderful time and a big success with our performances of Homo Deus Frankenstein - a performance by Sara Ostertag & Johan de Smet with Music by Frederik Neyrinck and I Solisti.
Performed by Sheva Tehoval and me. And we got good critiques:
https://www.olyrix.com/
Thank you, to everybody who made this possible and to all the kids and schools and families who came to experience this amazing piece of art!
I am so grateful for having had the possibility to perform and share on stage. Especially in these dark and challenging times for Europe and the whole World, I believe in the Power of Art. Make
Art not War!
Homo Deus Frankenstein
Looking forward to performing at Grand Theatre Geneve in Homo Deus Frankenstein by Sara Ostertag, Johan De Smet and music by Frederik Neyrinck as a substitute for amazing Martina Rösler. What a
blessing to dance for young audience together with singer Sheva Tehoval in this outstanding production!
Find all the details and dates here:
https://www.gtg.ch/en/2021-2022-season/homo-deus-frankenstein/
j_e_n_g_a: Interactive Film-Version
Tanja Erhart and me are very happy about our j_e_n_g_a-Premiere in January 2022. Thank you, for everybody who joined and supported us! All our love for you!
In case you have missed out on the live performance, there is an interactive film version by amazing Lorenz Tröbinger. Best to enjoy with PC or Laptop and a good internet connection. We
wish you loads of pleasure!
Premiere: j_e_n_g_a
After so many year it´s here:
The premiere of our j_e_n_g_a on January 20th at brut nordwest!
We warmly invite you to join us in the theatre and/or to join the online-premiere of our interactive film-version of j_e_n_g_a.
Tanja Erhart, her two crutches and me can´t wait to experience this performance with you!
Tickets und Infos hier!
Premiere: Die Überflüssigen
Theaterstück von Sina Heiss frei nach "Iwanow" (von Anton Tschechow). Mit choreografischen Elementen von mir. Und dem großartigen TAG-Ensemble!
Herzliche Einladung ins wunderbare TAG-Theater in Wien.
Tickets und Infos hier!
Music-Video: The Argument
I had the pleasure to perform and choreograph for the Duo Zeiner and Schlögl in their new music video The Argument.
Most special collaboration with:
Verena Zeiner - piano, synthesizers I-Wolf - all other instruments
Vifill Prunner - Video
Enjoy sound and picture and movement! And please listen to their Album "Magic Wall" - it´s pure magic!
SCHÄXPIR Festival: #schalldicht
Go and get your tickets for our Theatre-Piece #schalldicht!
An interdisciplinary theatre-piece for Young Audience aged 13+. Written and directed by Sina
Heiss, sound by Manu Mitterhuber and choreography by me.
Premiere on June 17th at Phönix Theater Linz in the frame of Schäxpir Festival 2021.
We are excited about creating something very special for you, your friends and families!
For details and tickets please have a look:
https://www.theater-phoenix.at/detail.php?iStueckID=329
Lecture at Kepler Salon
I´m delighted to invite you to my talk/lecture about Future Bodies - Körper der Zukunft in the frame of Kepler Salon in cooperation with Schäxpir Festival, hosted by Karin
Wagner.
The enry is free, spaces are limited.
The talk will happen in German.
For closer details and registration please have a look:
j e n g a-Interview for Springback Magazine
Amazing Claire Lefévre interviewed Tanja Erhart and me about our collaboration between analog and digital worlds and our upcoming performance j e n g a. It´s the three of us talking about multi-sensorial
connection, technological pleasures and the aesthetics of access
The interview is published in English in Springback Magazine.
Have a look and feel the pleasure!
https://springbackmagazine.com/read/tanja-erhart-katharina-senk-disability-aesthetics-access/
shakti. final weeks.
Anjana MR and me are in the second part of our SHAKTI-project, traveling all over Kerala to conduct workshops and perform together. We are very grateful for the support of our SHAKTI in the frame of "Bilateral Artistic Exchange" by Bundeskanzleramt. And we also want to thank beat1060 and Hindustan Kalari Sangham for their support.
Our final report and many pictures will be available end of December in the "Portfolio"-Section of this Website.
Until then: Loads of SHAKTI to all of you!
non_yielding: berlin - bangalore - version
We did it!
Our performance of "non_yielding"-Berlin-Bangalore-Version at "NO LIMITS"-Festival went well.
And Tanja Erhart and me had an interview with an Indian Newspaper. Check it out!
https://www.newindianexpress.com/cities/bengaluru/2019/nov/19/no-limits-no-borders-2063821.html
Thanks to "NO LIMITS"-Festival Berlin, Goethe-Institut Bangalore, Sophiensaele
Berlin, Metal Culture and their amazing Team - who keep supporting us and allowed us to get all of this started in 2018. And also to beat1060, D.ID-Dance Identity and ImPulsTanz-Vienna who
supported us with rehearsal and residency-space. And love to everyone who came and joined the performance.
habitat.
"Habitat" is over. 120 performers. Over 1800 audience members. Sharing energies, vibrations, realities. A dream. And I haven´t woken up yet.
There are no words to describe how I feel about Habitat. There´s gratitude - my flesh is full of it - for being part of this project in the "choreographic realization".
Thank you. To the one and only Doris Uhlich, to her artistic Team, to Boris Kopeinig, my dear colleagues, to TQW and to all the amazing performers. You make my heart dance. Boom Tschak.
[white hole]: premiere at schäxpir-festival
The great Maartje Pasman and me will create a Performance for Schäxpir-Festival in Linz. Schäxpir is THE Dance- and Theatre-Festival for Young Audience. We are very grateful for this opportunity and the support of our fellow-artists Patrick Gutensohn and Laurent Ziegler.
Please find all the Details and Dates here:
https://www.schaexpir.at/programm/event/white-hole.html
[white hole] ist eine bewegte, inter-aktive und multi-sensorische Expedition in eine neue Wirklichkeit.
Die Kulturtankstelle Linz wird in ein „weißes Loch“, in eine Begegnungszone mit den Körpern der Gegenwart und Zukunft verwandelt. Es entstehen
(Möglichkeits-)Räume für Menschen, Maschinen, Cyborgs und allem was dazwischen existiert.
SCHÄXPIR - Koproduktion
Von & mit: Katharina Senk, Maartje Pasman
Sound: Patrick Gutensohn
Photografie & Lichtdesign: Laurent Ziegler
burgenländische tanztage 2019
D.ID - Dance Identity and their "Choreografisches Zentrum Burgenland" will move to "Kulturzentrum Eisenstadt". They will inaugurate this great change with a top-dance-festival:
this years edition of Burgenländische Tanztage.
And I´m happy as can be to be part of it. With two productions.
Our final presentation of the EU-Project Migrant Bodies - Moving Borders and super[human]. Both performed on June 1st. Liz King and Max Biskup are such
strong supporters of my work. It´s great to be part of their Perspektiv-Gruppe zur Förderung von NachwuchschoreografInnen. I value their effort and dedication and how
much energy they put into the Austrian dance scene.
So come and join the festival! It will be most awesome!
Here the link with all the infos:
http://dance-identity.com/festival.html
shakti
Here´s more about SHAKTI:
The two dancers Anjana M.R. and Katharina Senk work on the fusion of dance and martial arts in their intercultural project SHAKTI. They explore the impact and the consequences the southern-indian Martial-Arts style of Kalaripayattu has on their individual artistic practice, their bodies, and their respective surrounding societies.
bodies & accidents
Premiere of the new production by Georg Blaschke and Jan Machacek at February 21st. Go and get your tickets!
https://brut-wien.at/
Choreograf Georg Blaschke und Video- und Medienkünstler Jan Machacek machen das Werk des britischen Jahrhundertmalers Francis Bacon zum Ausgangspunkt ihrer neuen gemeinsamen Arbeit. Der Körper
als zentrales Motiv Bacons bildet dabei auch die Basis ihrer Annäherung.
A Production by M.A.P. Vienna and brut wien
Choreografische Leitung: Georg Blaschke
Medienkunst:Jan Machacek
Choreografie, Performance: Katharina Senk, Tomaž Simatović
Musikgestaltung: Christian Schröder
Kostümgestaltung: Hanna Hollmann Lichtgestaltung: Sabine Wiesenbauer Videoprogrammierung: Oliver Stotz Bühnenbau:Leopold Kessler
Fachliche Beratung: Barbara Steffen Produktion: Raffaela Gras
Eine Koproduktion von M.A.P. Vienna 2018 und brut Wien.
Mit freundlicher Unterstützung der Kulturabteilung der Stadt Wien und der Kulturabteilung des Bundeskanzleramts Österreich.
rosalia chladek reenacted
Catch me perform "Luzifer" and my reenactment of Chladeks "Tanz mit dem Stab". I´m beyond excited. This intergenerational Project is huge!
Im Zuge der von Andrea Amort kuratierten Ausstellung "Alles tanzt. Kosmos Wiener Tanzmoderne" im Theatermuseum Wien stellen TänzerInnen der MUK sowie der freien Wiener Szene Rosalia
Chladek Reenacted historische Soli in neuem Gewand vor.
Der Anfang der Ausstellung Alles tanzt. Kosmos Wiener Tanzmoderne in der Schau als auch im Eroica-Saal des Theatermuseums gilt Rosalia Chladek (1905, Brünn – 1995, Wien). Die Choreografin hat in den 1980ern einige ihrer Werke auf junge TänzerInnen übertragen. Deren Kenntnis macht es möglich, dass 2019 eine neue Generation das Potential der Erb-Stücke untersucht. Getanzt werden historische Soli, darunter Luzifer (1938), aber auch Rekonstruktionen und Neubearbeitungen.
Mit Farah Deen, Cäcilia Färber, Eva-Maria Kraft, Katharina Illnar, Eva-Maria Schaller, Katharina Senk sowie Martina Haager und anderen.
Details und Tickets:
www.theatermuseum.at
http://www.muk.ac.at/veranstaltung/alles-tanzt-rosalia-chladek-reenacted.html
we rocked mak!
Performing for and creating with Georg Blaschke, the wonderful team of M.A.P.-Vienna and my beloved fellow artists Manaho Shimokawa and Tomaz Simatovic was such a pleasureful experience.
Thank you - You give me life! Big Thanks also to such a generous audience!
See here what the dance critcs wrote about "Antonio´s imaginary workshop". Short Spoiler: They liked it. ;)
Helmut Ploebst in "Der Standard":
http://derstandard.at/2000067233800/Mach-dir-deinen-Golem
Ditta Rudle in "Tanzschrift.at":
http://www.tanzschrift.at/20-pinnwand/642-georg-blaschke-antonio-s-imaginary-workshop
Edith Wolf Perez in "tanz.at":
http://www.tanz.at/index.php/kritiken/kritiken-2017/1884-georg-blaschke-antonio-s-imaginary-workshop
"Antonio´s imaginary workshop"
My next upcoming project is "Antonio´s imaginary workshop" a contemporary dance-performance by M.A.P.-Vienna and Georg Blaschke premiering on November 3rd at WUK Museum Vienna.
I am so much looking forward to dancing this wonderful Trio-work together with my two colleagues Tomaz Simatovic and Manaho Shimokawa.
Checkt out the links and reserve your tickets!
Georg Blaschke / Choreografie & künstlerische Leitung
the official trailer for "amor hereos" is online!
Der offizielle Trailer für "amor hereos" von c h o r e i a ist online. Viel Spaß beim Anschauen!
Choreographie Barbara Ebner, Daniela-Katrin Strobl
Tanz Katharina Senk Textcollage Sophie Steinbeck Regieassistenz Dagmar Tröstler
Licht/Technik Andreas Zemann Bühne/Kostüm Anne Schartmann Produktion Susanne Rosenlechner