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For more than a decade, Dana Michel @danamavismichel has been developing a body of work that moves between different stage settings, from conventional frontal stages to museum spaces, always challenging their protocols while at the same time inviting audiences to stay with them, alert and engaged.

A few months after the premiere “YOU CANNOT CAN” at Kunstenfestivaldesarts in Brussels, Dana met via Zoom with choreographer and writer Moriah Evans @mosnave , who was also the editor of Movement Research Performance Journal (2010–2020). Working across theater, museums and site-specific contexts, Moriah’s practice investigates how we perceive bodies and movement while questioning the protocols and modes of production through which dance is made and encountered.

Meeting as friends and colleagues, and with some distance from the work’s first performances, Dana and Moriah look at what surfaces within the vessel of YOU CANNOT CAN: trust issues, leisure, labor—and the questions that emerge while trying to feel alive.

Portraits by Clara Borrelli @claraborrelli

Go online to read the interview. link in bio.

Don’t miss Dana Michel: “YOU CANNOT CAN” at Tanzquartier Wien @tanzquartierwien (Vienna) on 25+26 Sep, 2026; Actoral @actoral_ (Marseile) on 03 + 04, Oct 2026; Fierce Festival @fiercefestival (Birmingham) on 17 + 18 Oct, 2026; Moving in November @lmfestivaali (Helsinki) on 09–13 Nov, 2026.

#PWMagazine #DanaMichel #MoriahEvans #ClaraBorrelli #TQW @neonlobster_ by @pw_mag

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23 days ago

EWA DZIARNOWSKA: DANCES BUILT FROM SENSATION

Ewa Dziarnowska’s performance, “This resting, patience”, first shown at Sophiensaele’s @sophiensaele Tanztage 2024, stretches tension between spectacle and relation; the gaze that consumes and the encounter that transforms. Over the course of three hours, dancing becomes tactile and visual, private and shared. Drawn into states of urgency and empathy, one might feel less a spectator than a participant in a field of attention. The body emerges as a source of knowledge and experience, and dancing as an activity and an environment.

In this conversation, dancer, choreographer and writer Alice Heyward @allesheyward , and Ewa Dziarnowska reflect on how this work unsettles objectification, cultivates intimacy, and tests the contracts between dancers and audiences across different contexts. They speak of dance as a lover, a teacher, a game without a goal: an embodied practice of transformation that insists on relation over representation.

Read the interview now online at www.pw-magazine.com 🔗 link in bio.

Photos by Shauna Summers @shaunasummers_

#PWMagazine #EwaDziarnowska #AliceHeyward #ShaunaSummers #Sophiensaele @lmfestivaali by @pw_mag

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a year ago

Don’t miss Alberto Cortés: “El corazón de Ester” at Teatro Central de Sevilla @teatro.central (Sevilla) on 23 + 24 Oct; Festival de Otoño de la Comunidad de Madrid @contemporaneacondeduque @festotono (Madrid) on 20-22 Nov; Festival d’Automne @festivaldautomne (Paris) on 14–19 Dec, 2026; VIERNULVIER @viernulvier.gent (Gent) Feb, 2027; Domaine d’O @domainedo (Montpellier) 2 + 3 Mar, 2027; Tanzquatier Wien @tanzquartierwien (Wien) Apr, 2027; Teatre Municipal de Girona @teatre_gi (Girona) 7 May, 2027;
Teatro Cánovas @teatro.canovas (Málaga) 21 + 22 May, 2027.

Reed our interview between Alberto Cortés and Andrea Rodrigo online at pw-magazine.com
Link in bio

#PWMagazine #AlbertoCortes #AndreaRodrigo by @pw_mag

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4 days ago

IMPRESSIONS OF PW LIVE
ENAD MAROUF: AND NOW IT IS NIGHT

Credits
Concept, Choreography, Text: Enad Marouf @enadmarouf
Performance: Enad Marouf, Samuel Pereira @samuelfpereira
Music: Bell Towers rbt69
Costumes: Grzegorz Matlag
Production Management: Florian Greß
Photos: Marcella Ruiz Cruz @marcellaruizcruz

Funded by the Cultural Department of the City of Vienna @stadtwien

#PWMagazine #PWLive #EnadMarouf #SamuelPereira @nectarprojects by @pw_mag

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Enad Marouf @enadmarouf is a Syrian-German performance and video artist based in Berlin. His work focuses on body and text, using video, dance, language and installation as poetics and articulation of temporalities that influence our physicality and the way we narrate the world around us. He completed his Masters in Choreography and Performance at the Institute for Applied Theater Studies in Gießen/Frankfurt. His solo works and collaborations have been shown at Sophiensæle, the Athens Biennale, Kunstenfestivaldesarts Brussels, Centre culturel Francais de Damas, Babel Beirut, Tate Modern London, Art Institute of Chicago, Shedhalle Zurich, Kampnagel and Neue Nationalgalerie Berlin, among others. In 2023, he was awarded the prestigious Will Grohmann Prize.

🗓️PW LIVE — ENAD MAROUF: AND NOW IT IS NIGHT
3 Oct, 2026
19:00
Nectar @nectarprojects
Arndtstrasse 70, AT-1120 Vienna
Free admission

#PWMagazine #PWLive #EnadMarouf @samuelfpereira @rbt69 taken in Vienna - Austria by @pw_mag

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19 days ago

PW LIVE — ENAD MAROUF: AND NOW IT IS NIGHT
In his work, Enad Marouf explores the fragmental nature of memory, loss and desire, their temporality and how they are embodied through poetry, gesture and choreography.

For PW LIVE Marouf is presenting an iteration / Stanza for two dancers from his performance “And Now It is Night”. The work explores a cruising dance between two strangers. A cruising dance of desire as well as a cruising dance with the unknown and uncertainty. A condition we might all endure. The process of emergence and disappearance of movement, language, sound and light and the fragmented interplay between these formal elements is an invitation to witness a nonlinear story: an unfolding meditation on grief, desire, memory and uncertainty.

3 Oct, 2026
19:00
Nectar @nectarprojects
Arndtstrasse 70, AT-1120 Vienna
Free admission

Credits
Concept, Choreography, Text: Enad Marouf @enadmarouf
Performance: Enad Marouf, Samuel Pereira @samuelfpereira
Music: Bell Towers @rbt69
Costumes: Grzegorz Matlag
Production Management: Florian Greß

Funded by the Cultural Department of the City of Vienna @stadtwien

#PWMagazine #PWLive #EnadMarouf taken in Vienna, Austria by @pw_mag

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24 days ago

A POST-DOOM ROMANCE
In Shade Théret’s @shadejuliette performance “Daybreak” the sensation of the uncanny becomes a thread woven through every moment. A cinematographic journey through a world beyond collapse.

A review by Jette Büchsenschütz @jette_ca

Revisit the review online—link in bio

🌐 Don’t miss Shade Théret: Daybreak at @kunsthallewinterthur (Winterthur, CH) on 10 + 11 Sep, 2026.

#PWMagazine #ShadeTheret #JetteBuechsenchuetz @ringo_noko @sophiensaele @clever_disguises @gerrytedder by @pw_mag

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a month ago

🪽 MACKENZY BERGILE—INVITING NEW HUMANITIES
Over the past years, Mackenzy Bergile @aroundbergile has developed a singular artistic language that moves between dance, music, writing, and archival practice. His recent stage work Autothérapie unfolds as an excavation of embodied memory, tracing connections between Haiti, France, colonial and family histories, and the fragments that survive loss. In conversation with Corinna Humuza @corinnahza —Artistic Director of @kunstenfestivaldesarts —he reflects on art as a way of imagining forms of humanity that do not yet have a name, one that remains attentive to ruins while insisting on the possibility of becoming otherwise.

Read the interview online—link in bio

Portaits by C. Davy k316yin

Don’t miss Mackenzy Bergile: Autothérapie at @pavillon.adc / @emergentia.adc.labri.tu (Geneva) on 06 + 07 Nov, 2026; @maillonth (Strasbourg) in Nov, 2026; @derivecasablancaise (Casablanca) in Dec, 2026; @theatredelabastille (Paris) on 25 – 27 Jan, 2027.

Slide (9): Mackenzy Bergile: Autothérapie. Photo by C. Davy

#PWMagazine #MackenzyBergile #CorinnaHumuza @kampnagel_hamburg by @pw_mag

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2 months ago

DOORS OPEN CLOSE—ALMOST A MANIFESTO
After many years, the Viennese choreographer and dancer Philipp Gehmacher @philippgehmacher is once again turning increasingly towards the pleasure of dancing. Interspersed—a speech, almost a manifesto: How to speak about dance today, how to speak about the madness of this world today?

Read the full text online—link in bio

Photos by Paola Lesslhumer @paolalesslhumer

#PWMagazine #PhilippGehmacher #PaolaLesslhumer @impulstanz_festival @tanzquartierwien @hzt_berlin by @pw_mag

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SOROUR DARABI—EMBODYING VULNERABILITY AND TRANSFORMATIVE EMOTIONAL LANDSCAPES
Working through socio-political and historical questions with his body, Sorour Darabi’s @sorourdarabi__ performances slip between the viewer and his consciousness. As a self-taught trans artist, (...) his work deals with queer time shifting and ongoing processes.
In a chat with neo seefried @neoseefried , he spoke about the anus as a source of energy as well as vulnerability and about transforming emotional landscapes.

Read the interview online—link in bio

Portraits by Marina Hoppmann @marinahoppmann

👁️‍🗨️ Don’t miss Sorour Darabi: Mille et Une Nuits at Radialsystem @radialsystem_berlin on 31 Jul + 1 Aug, 2026.

#PWMagazine #SorourDarabi #neoseefried #MarinaHoppmann by @pw_mag

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3 months ago

🛠 THE PROMISE OF WORK—BERLIN’S PRODUCTION OF PRECARITY
From Berlin’s independent arts scene to contemporary performances of labor, Jette Büchsenschütz @jette_ca visited the Never Work Festival at Sophiensaele @sophiensaele and follows the traces of a society increasingly unable to imagine itself beyond the horizon of work.

Read the essay online—link in bio

Slide Credits
(1,6) Bullyache @bullyache_ : A Good Man is Hard to Find. Photo by Éamonn Zeel Freel
(4) Abhishek Thapar @funambulist_ : Soft Pressure (Working Title). Photo by Himashi Parmar
(8) MEXA @ogrupomexa : Reality Show. Photos by Mayra Wallraff
(11,12) Liina Magnea @mmaaggnneeaa : What’s a Mob to a King (Plot-twist Redemption). Photo by Emma Annell

#PWMagazine #JetteBuechsenschuetz #Sophiensaele @olympiabukkakis by @pw_mag

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4 months ago

Yesterday at @kunsthallewien

PW LIVE: In Living Daylight
A programme of performances, curated by PW-Magazine in the context of the exhibition Lebt und arbeitet in Wien. Contemporary Art from Vienna.

With Bryony Dawson, Paul Ebhart, Alix Eynaudi, Han-Gyeol Lie, Maria Mercedes (Julia Müllner & Camilla Schielin), Sainkho Namtchylak, Evelyn Plaschg (cancelled due to unforeseen circumstances), Frank Wasser

Photos by @marcellaruizcruz

Thank you all for coming 🌞 taken in Kunsthalle Wien by @pw_mag

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