14 April 2023

Fashion.at preview of the Impulstanz festival workshops including Fashion Performance, Pole Bending, Dancing Meditation

When Fashion.at asked Chat-GPT on Bing.com, "What do you know about the Impulstanz festival?", the AI generated the following answer using information from the festival's website:
"The ImPulsTanz festival is an international dance festival that takes place annually in Vienna, Austria. It was founded in 1984 and has since evolved into the largest festival for contemporary dance and performance in the world. The festival presents a uniquely diverse program of performances, workshops, research projects and musical acts every summer."

The workshop schedule is the first detailed information Impulstanz has published for this year's festival from 6 July to 6 August. The printed catalog with German and English texts about the more than 210 workshops and research projects arrived at Fashion.at this week. The schedule, without further description of the teachers or courses, is already published on impulstanz.com/en/calendar/workshops-teachers (fast checked today). It's announced that the full program will be online from 18 April, the same day that online booking and research project application will be possible.

Fashion.at browsed through the printed catalog, which is divided into chapters such as 'Visual Arts & Dance'. Workshops in this category are held by and with visual artists or artists with a close connection to the visual arts, as explained in the catalog. One of the courses is 'Fashion Performance' by the Vienna-based duo Krõõt Juurak, performer and artist, and Vera Rosner, choreographer and performer, about the relationship of the body to the clothes we wear and their social representation.

In the latest Impulstanz news some other highlights have been mentioned, such as workshops by teachers who will be part of the festival for the first time. Dulce Villano's first Impulstanz workshop 'Pole Bending' is described as an exploration of Eros through pole dancing.

One of the popular teachers from the previous years who will be back in 2023 is Salim Gauwloos. In the workshop 'Contemporary Jazz - Dancing Meditation', participants will learn after a phase of warm-up and the exploration of a wide range of movements an original choreography by the New York-based dancer, who combines ballet, modern dance and jazz. Salim Gauwloos is known from music (Madonna's 'The Blonde Ambition Tour', the 'Vogue' video,...) and from fashion commercials with models such as Cindy Crawford or photographers like Bruce Webber or Herb Ritts.

Images: Salim Gauwloos (US/BE), 'Contemporary Jazz – Dancing Meditation'. The workshops will take place in the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd week of the Impulstanz Festival 2023 (6 July until 6 August). The pictures show Impulstanz teacher Salim Gauwloos (left) and a view of one of his classes (right). Photos: © yako.one.