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.

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/

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!

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

Our new piece HEXEN - a dance performance for young audience with translation into Austrian Sign Language - is about to premiere at September 22nd at Dschungel Wien.
What a pleasure to work on this performance together with my fellow witches Yuria Knoll, Iris Omari Ansong and Maartje Pasman. We can´t wait to bewitch you!

Find closer details here:
https://www.dschungelwien.at/vorstellung/869
Tickets are selling fast.

Can´t wait to move, sweat and shake with you this summer!

13. & 19.7.2022: "Contemporary meets Martial Arts" with me at Public Moves at ImPulsTanzFestival 22
https://www.impulstanz.com/publicmoves/

1.-4.8.2022: "Contemporary Basic"-Workshop from 18:00-19:30 at beat1060 Wien
https://www.beat1060.wien/

8.-11.8.2022: "Floorwork Intermediate"-Workshop from 19:40-21:10 at beat1060 Wien
So you better book your spots! :)

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

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 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!

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/

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!

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!

It finally happened! And in front of an almost sold-out audience!
Thank you so much to ARGE-Kultur for their support and for making this possible - This performance together with Richard Eigner was one of the most intimate and most special ones in 2021!

https://www.argekultur.at/Event/15993/katharina-senk-richard-eigner-states-of-readi

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

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:

https://www.schaexpir.at/programm/rahmenprogramm.html

Currently preparing a new Theater-Performance for Young Audience with Director, Writer and Performer Sina Heiss and Sound-Designer Manu Mitterhuber for SCHÄXPIR Festival 2021 and Phönix Theater Linz.
Very excited about this collaboration with a great cast!
Premiere planned in June 2021. Stay tuned!

"Ein Tonstudio mit Softwareproblemen wird für vier junge Menschen zum Absturz-Treffpunkt im Empfangsloch. Auf sich selbst zurückgeworfen sind sie gezwungen, sich mit den großen Themen des Lebens auseinanderzusetzen: Liebe, Weltmeere, Pizza. Und Warten ... auf ein neues, besseres System."

You can find more details here:
https://www.theater-phoenix.at/detail.php?iStueckID=329

Loads of Love,

Katharina, Tanja & The Two Crutches 

Here the Link for more Details about Tanjas and my Collaboration:
https://brut-wien.at/de/Magazin/New-Art-on-line/Katharina-Senk-Tanja-Erhart-CROSS_BORDER_BALANCE-A-GAME

We want to thank brut Wien for their support and for inviting us to „New Art on…line“. And we thank our collaborators and supporters METAL Culture UK, Im_Flieger KünstlerInnen-Initiative, Mollusca productions, beat1060 Wien, MA 7 - Abteilung für Kunst & Kultur, D.ID - Dance Identity and ImPulsTanz-Festival Vienna. DANKE!

I will be teaching a SATURDANCE exploring Contemporary Improvisation for "Tanz die Toleranz" online on 23rd of May. It will be online at 13:00.
Have fun and enjoy! I felt so vulnerable and strong after producing it, so I´m very excited how it will move you!
Here you can finde the link to their You-Tube-Channel:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUbtaJh18KFsLxkLX6eQS_Q

And currently I am regularly teaching online Classes via Zoom for beat1060.
Closer Details you can find here:
https://beat1060.wien/timetable.html

Never not dancing! 
Never not sharing the dancelove!

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!

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. 

My first large-scale choreographic group-piece super[human] will have the last stop of its summer-tour at amazing "Front@ Festival" on the 30th of August in Murska Sobota in Slovenia.
After performing at "Lange Nacht des Tanzes" on the 26th of July in Gmünd (Kärnten) for the "Choreographic Center Bleiburg" we can´t wait to perform the dancing cyborgs again!

For closer details please have a look here:
https://www.facebook.com/zavodflota/?__tn__=%2Cd%2CP-R&eid=ARCg5vAREVCrb0Cx5Xn3u1ap_245LI3dASqNRBpbPsP63MoySI511_OYcfHPePjtD-4CI0-BynPfzz7u

I am most happy and grateful to anounce my participation in the new performance "Habitat" by Doris Uhlich as part of the core-team for the choreographic realization.
Vienna, get ready for 120 bodies boom-tschaking vienna at TQW and Halle E!

For closer details please have a look here:

https://tqw.at/event/habitat-halle-e-uhlich/

Migrant Bodies - Moving Borders had its final symposium this weekend.
Oh, what a journey this has been. So far.
I’d like to borrow the words of my dearest colleague Andrea Rampazzo:
“This is not the end. This is just the beginning of something I can’t imagine yet.”

I’m bursting with gratitude. I’m moved. I’m connected. To myself. To the world and to a community which believes in the power of Dance.

Thanks and all my love to every body participating in this project!
You´ve got my love.

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

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

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.

"Stretching the possibilities of human connection."
The duett "non_yielding" premiered at UNLIMITED-Festival at Southbank Centre in London at September 6th.

"non_yielding" is a live video-dance performance. Interrogating the topic of human, physical, "objectified" and digital connectivity.
We mused on questions arising from the themes exploring physicality across space, time and everything in-between.

Special thanks to Tanja Erhart for her invitation to co-operate and for the CHANGE MAKER-residency, that made this dancy encounter possible.

This was just the first step of a wonderful and very exciting collaboration. More to come!

http://www.metalculture.com/wp-content/uploads/PROGRAMME-DESCRIPTIONS-Final.pdf

On April 25th the audience of "Tanz als Kunsterfahrung" - a public-learning-experience set up by D.ID and the Galerie "Wienerroither und Kohlbacher" - gave us the opportunity to share some of our ideas and research for our upcoming piece 
super[human] with a great audience at Palais Schönborn-Batthany, one of the most beautiful spaces in Vienna in the midst of Art-Works by Arotin & Serghei.
What an evening! We are most grateful for every body who showed up and supported us with their presence and feedback.
Danke.

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