We are thrilled to announce the Huggy Bears Days 2024! On November 14th and 15th at WUK performing arts, and from November 21st to 23rd at Studio Brut, our supporting program artists will take center stage for their opening nights. This year, we’ve had the privilege of accompanying three incredibly diverse and captivating artistic projects over the course of several months. From the very first public work-in-progress showings, through rehearsals and in-depth feedback sessions, we’ve witnessed their evolution into fully realized performances.
Each project delves into unique and thought-provoking themes. The artists have explored everything from the highs and lows of being an artist, to themes of healing, community, individuality, and the (im)possibilities of finding the “right” way to live. Now, we invite you to join us on this artistic journey and see what Vienna’s emerging performance art scene has to offer. Experience these three remarkable paths as they converge for their grand unveiling.
For more information on the artists visiti our Huggy Bears section on our website.
14.11. – 15.11. WUK.performingarts:
For Tickets visit WUK.performingarts.
Ale Bachlechner: Ruin your Life
How can a life be summed up? As an inspiring success story, a romantic comedy, a heroic struggle, a major disappointment, or simply a complete mess? By the time of the eulogy, it becomes clear which decisions, events, and traits our loved ones considered significant. In Ruin Your Life, installation-based video works with quirky explorations, performative miniatures, and moments of direct interaction with the performers invite the audience to engage in a humorously critical reflection on powerful norms and ideologies, personal hopes and experiences, cautionary tales, and the relentless economy of (life)time.
Concept, Direction, and Video Work: Ale Bachlechner
Development and Performance: Ale Bachlechner, Isa Conrady, Bryce Kasson, Jonathan Kastl, Olivia Platzer
Technical Concept: Jonathan Kastl
Music: Bryce Kasson, Jonathan Kastl
Additional Info
The performance and video installation Ruin Your Life will be open for four and a half hours on both event days. Depending on their own preferences, the audience can either actively engage in the stories with the performers or remain passive. Visitors are free to leave and return at any time after their first entry. A stay of at least one hour is recommended.
Entry to Ruin Your Life on both days will be available at the following times:
16:00 | 16:30 | 17:00 PM | 17:30 PM | 18:00 PM | 18:30 PM | 19:00 PM | 19:30
MO-ZA-IK: Elevate
Rosa Perl, Viviane Le Tanzmeister, Jamali Abale, Mátyás Kántor
The performance Elevate opens a space for experimentation and transformation, where care and tension meet. It explores how the individual influences the collective and vice versa. The central questions are: Who holds the control? Who follows whom? Whose desires and needs are being met? In Elevate, MO-ZA-IK focuses on individual and collective struggles for liberation and how they affect one another. Inspired by personal experiences and house culture, the performance uses dance, music, and club culture to explore these questions. In times of political division, war, injustice, and discrimination, MO-ZA-IK questions communal practices and seeks to reimagine them. Freestyle dance and DJing are key elements of the performance, with the physical and acoustic dimensions of house dance used to reflect societal and intimate interpersonal interactions.
Performance: MO-ZA-IK Collective
Production: Rosa Perl
Sound Concept: Mátyás Kántor
Choreography: Jamali Abale
Creative Direction: Viviane Le Tanzmeister
Starting time: 21:00
21.11 – 23.11 studio brut:
For Tickets visit brut.
Helena Araújo: and it gets better
In her solo performance and it gets better, Helena Araújo uses humor, disobedience and comedic extravagance to dismantle the tough life of the art market. The performer invites the audience to a beach that throws a warm spotlight on the mental health of culture workers in the performing arts. Riding the toxic waves of the art market, she challenges the underrepresentation of precarious working conditions, constant traveling and harsh criticism in the field. Or is it simply a beach after all?
Concept, dramaturgy and performance: Helena Araújo
Dramaturgy: Ana Rocha
Assistant, set, costume and lighting design: Evandro Pedroni
Sound design Luis: Ramirez Mũnoz aka Lulu, Zeynab Kirikou Gueye
Starting time: 19:00