large-scale spatial theatre for four performers, orchestra, and electronics in open space

concept and choreography: Georg Blaschke

line-up: oboe, clarinet, 2 horns, trumpet, trombone, tuba, percussion, contrabass
duration: 75 minutes
date of premiere: 24.09.2025, Gedenkwald Aspern, Seestadt, Musiktheatertage Wien

Musically and choreographically, DICHTES HOLZ explores a terrain between clearing, forest, pond and meadow, permeated by historical layers and everyday movements. Georg Blaschke and Matthias Kranebitter, together with the Black Page Orchestra, create a large-scale theatre in the midst of this landscape. Archaic states, images, sounds and physical actions stir hidden traces of the underground, amplify its frequencies and unearth concealed knowledge. The audience follows a path of awareness of buried, worn-away, forgotten memories. Contemporary music and choreography transform the forest into a place of listening, wonder and mystical experience.

Choreography / Georg Blaschke Composition,
Sound Engineering / Matthias Kranebitter
Video: Johannes Albrecht
Performance: Alina Bertha, Elda Gallo, Andras Meszerics, Maartje Pasman
Musicians: Niko Božek, Helene Kenyeri, Teresa Doblinger, Maria Chlebus, Juan Pablo Trad Hasbun, Jason Pfiester, Melissa Danas, Spiros Laskaridis, Chloe Ryo
Costume: Hanna Hollmann
Light Design: Bartek Kubiak
Production M.A.P. Vienna / Sophie Freimüller
A Coproduction of M.A.P. Vienna Movement Art Programmes, Musiktheatertage Wien, Black Page Orchestra; Support: City of ViennaFederal Ministry of Arts, Culture, Media and Sport Future Fund of the Republic of Austria ImpulsTanz Vienna International Dance Festival

concept, choreography: Anne Juren

performer: Anne Juren, Samuel Feldhandler, Linda Samaraweerova, Alex Franz Zehetbauer

• line-up: 4 performer, 2 accordions, contrabass clarinet, contrabass
• duration: 70 minutes
• date of premiere: 28.11.2024, brut nordwest, Wien Modern

We are all mothers (WAAM) is a musical-choreographic composition. As “healing” for a collective symptom, the piece navigates between health and art, expanding choreography to heal various ailments of the body. It is less about pathology and more about illuminating the urgency of examining symptomatic affects of the world we live in. The symptoms that come from within the participating performers transform into collective symptoms – and are treated by everyone in community. Each performer in We are all mothers acts both as a dancer and as a body practitioner.

Who is under treatment here: the audience, the performers, the theatre space? We Are All Mothers WAAM is a journey to collective healing that draws on the fact that all our bodies and experiences are connected. Together, the performers create a space in which the individual and the collective melt into one. Bringing their individual symptoms to the stage, they transform them into joint experiences, challenging the separation between health and art and creating co-existence, co-regulation, understanding and a sense of support. The audience witnesses and becomes part of this transformation process through dance and music that dissolves the lines between performer and spectator, healer and patient.

Treatment in We Are All Mothers WAAM is turned into a both choreographic and musical composition, metaphorically, but also literally. Choreography plays a crucial part in this healing process. Including theatre machinery in the performance creates a holistic environment in which every single element contributes to the overall experience. This concept emphasises collective care while challenging the typical idea of medical treatment as an individual process and presenting it instead as a communal, collective endeavour. Everybody’s experiences and contributions come together in a joint composition. By acknowledging and accepting differences, the performers create an environment that is reflected in a choreography in which the movements of individuals together make up the collective narration. We Are All Mothers WAAM is a tribute to Anne Juren’s mother, who passed away in the summer of 2022.