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BUZZ-Trailer is out!
We are so happy to share the official trailer for BUZZ with you! Share and enjoy!
Our performances of BUZZ were such a magic gift! Thanks to everybody who came to witness this piece and so much love to everybody who made this possible!
If you are curious you can read what critic Rando Hannemann wrote about our performance HERE!
Eine Koproduktion von tanz.sucht.theater und imagetanz 2026 / brut Wien
Gefördert von der Kulturabteilung der Stadt Wien (MA 7) und dem Bundesministerium für Wohnen, Kunst, Kultur, Medien und Sport (BMWKMS)
Winner of the Brigitte-Hamann-Prize!
I am so honored and touched for having won the Brigitte-Hamann-Prize by the ÖPUK (Österreichische Privatunversitäten Konferenz) in the category Career in music and performing arts.
I´m equally grateful for the beautiful Laudatio by Christine Standfest and Christian Kircher. What a joy!
Find closer details HERE!
SCHMUSE*PASSION at Volkstheater Wien
And another beautiful collaboration with Schmusechor is in the books!
Choreographing for this choir always means so much to me!
This time, because of my current job as dancer in Hamburg, I shared the choreographic responsability with my dear colleague Gabriel José Zúñiga Àvila.
If you missed out on this breathtaking event HERE is your chance to experience it in February 2027 at Festspielhaus St. Pölten!
Excited Hello to: BUZZ Premiere at imagetanz 26
BUZZ - our new production by tanz.sucht.theater - will premiere on March 19th in the frame of imagetanz festival at brut nordwest. BUZZ is a dance-concert for people of all visual abilities
created by dancers Ray Scheinecker, Maartje Pasman and me in collaboration with amazing musician Verena Zeiner.
More shows will happen on March 20th and 21st. Shows start at 20:00. There is a touch-tour for blind and visually impaired audience at 19:00 before every performance.
Find all the details and get your tickets HERE!
BUZZ is co-production by tanz.sucht.theater and imagetanz 2026/brut Wien
Funded by the City of Vienna’s Department of Cultural Affairs (MA 7) and the Austrian Federal Ministry of Housing, Art, Culture, Media and Sport (BMWKMS)
Grateful Goodbye to: Artistic Exploration Lab
The Artistic Exploration Lab created and organized by RED NOSES International brought together 12 artists emerging in the field of Health and/or Arts from all over Europe. I am so grateful and
happy I got to accompany these process as one of three coaches next to outstanding colleagues. This was the second time I got to collaborate and co-create with RED NOSES International and I´m so
in awe of their work.
This is how I saw my responsability within this project:
“I am a facilitator, activist, researcher, performer and lover of movement. I love the connective magic of dance and movement and what happens to people when they
swing, feel, sweat and vibrate together. As a supporter of participants' artistic research processes, I offer physical perspectives and am here to facilitate the embodiment of the research
because, after all, the experiential dimension of human existence - as we all have through existing in and with our bodies - plays an important role in both arts and health.”
Grateful Goodbye to: Marina Abramović Re-Performances
The past 6 months re-performing Marina Abramović´s works at Albertina modern were life-changing. I got to perform "Imponderabilia", "Nude with Skeleton", "Luminosity" and "Art must be beautiful -
Artist must be beautiful".
There is so much to say about this, so much to feel.
Thanks for everybody who made this possible . Thanks for everybody who came to experience this. Thank you, Marina!
Working as guide for RED NOSES International "Artistic Exploration Lab"
We´re already in the middle of the "Artistic Exploration Lab", which I get to co-guide next to absolutely outstanding colleagues. And what a pleasure it is to work with so many international and
enthusiastic participants who explore the boundaries of Arts and Health!
It´s a big honour for me to be back with Red Noses International and their research formats for a second time already.
Curious? Find some more details on it HERE!
Happening this Fall/Winter: Performing for Marina Abramović at Albertina Modern
More details up soon - for now I´m very excited and grateful for this amazing opportunity to dive deep into Marina Abramovićs work from September to January!
Find details HERE!
Happening this Summer: Performing as dancer in "Wiener Blut"
From August 10th to August 31st I will be performing as dancer for choreographer Steffi Wieser in Nikolaus Habjan´s version of the operetta "Wiener Blut" next to three amazing fellow dancers Lea
Karnutsch, Anna Possarning and Sophia Mirwald. Get ready for beautiful music and this fresh take on Strauss!
Last few tickets and details you can find HERE!
"Eine Ballettoper" with E3-Ensemble
Ich freue mich sehr, dass "Eine Ballettoper" vom E3-Ensemble am 3. April Premiere im Theater am Werk feiert.
Ich war an dieser Produktion als Bewegungscoach involviert und was für eine Freude war mir diese Zusammenarbeit!
Tickets und weitere Infos:
https://e3ensemble.at/
Artistic-Audiodescription for "shining rose" at brut
Together with my dear colleague Ray Scheinecker I had the pleasure to create an Artistic Audiodescription for "shining rose" by mariamercedes. Premiere was on March 28th at brut nordwest.
We are still very grateful for the generousity of the artists, for amazing brut nordwest for making this possible and ofcourse for so many visually impaired and blind people coming to the
touch-tour and the performance and diving into this wonderul piece through and with our audiodescription.
Find details HERE!
World-Tour with two short solo-pieces for Vienna Tourism!
Dreams can become reality!
And so they did for me from October to December 2024.
In collaboration with Vienna Tourism I was able to share two short solo-pieces of mine and talk about my life and work as Viennese Dance-artist all over the world.
I got to tour New York, London, Paris, Milano, Madrid, Hamburg, Zurich, Seoul and Tokio with this.
And I´m still in awe about this experience!
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.
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!
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.