TANZ*HOTEL | GAST*SPIELE
Dance Poetry Performance Festival
“Language and poetry as movement, music, body text – dance language.” B.G.
Tanz*Hotel invites you to GAST*SPIELE at Theater am Werk Petersplatz with a new T*H piece, guests and coproductions. Since 2023 it is the next T*H Crossover Festival of its kind. Within this year's focus Dance Poetry Performances 2025 artistic director Bert Gstettner presents current productions from contemporary dance, music and performance, all referring to literature.
Shows | October Thu, 16th - Sun, 26th, 2025
7pm Doors Open | 7:30pm Performances
Theater am Werk | Petersplatz 1, 1010 Vienna
press release >>>
Detailed commentary on the T*H Guest Performances Festival and the double bill 'Deer Dreams' by Robert Steijn and 'Poor Guy' by Luigi Guerrieri >>>
program 16. & 17.10. >>> program 19.10. >>> program 21. & 22.10. >>> program 24. & 25.10. >>> program 26.10. >>>
report Inge Kaindlstorfer >>> report Bruni Sand >>>
article Ditta Rudle >>>
GAST*SPIELE will kick off with the Vienna premiere of T*H production Fragmente*Liebe based on condensations of Roland Barthes' A Lover's Discourse: Fragments. Further premieres include Andrea Nagl's presentation with musician Karlheinz Essl, a preview by Robert Steijn, a new trio-piece by Inge Kaindlstorfer & lux flux as well as revivals of Luigi Guerrieri's and Natalie Campbell's pieces from Artist At Resort. The program will be expanded and rounded off with the music performances Du Bleda Bua, a setting of Christine Nöstlinger's texts to tone, and the Moritaten aus dem Wienerwald by Gilbert Handler. In the smaller theater, the permantent installation Ariadne - Fris by Christoff Wiesinger, with music by Günther Rabl and performances by Verena Schneider (Oct 16th, 19th, 26th, 2025) will be on display throughout the entire GAST*SPIELE period.
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"Gstettner seinerseits kümmert sich seit Jahren um die Unterstützung des choreografischen Nachwuchses und zeigt regelmäßig, was dabei herauskommt. Jetzt präsentiert er bis zum 26. Oktober am Petersplatz ausgewählte Stücke, darunter Arbeiten von Natalie Campbell, Lux Flux oder Robert Steijn." Helmut Ploebst, DerStandard
PROGRAM OVERVIEW | PERFORMANCE - DANCE, MUSIC, EXHIBITION
Opening Night | Oct 16th, 2025, 7.30pm
Chimeric Clone
Solo, 15min. Performance around installation at the small theater space
Performance: Verena Schneider | Dramaturgy: Bert Gstettner
becoming [stone] | Andrea Nagl
Solo, 25min. From T*H residency project AAR Term 26
Performance & Choreography: Andrea Nagl | Live-Music, Composition: Karlheinz Essl
Fragmente*Liebe | Tanz*Hotel
Quartett, 50min. Vienna premiere
Dance-Performance: Natalie Campbell, Misael Romero | Text-Performance: Lilly Prohaska
Drums-Performance: Jörg Mikula | Choreography: Bert Gstettner
Oct 17th, 2025, 7.30pm
becoming [stone] | Andrea Nagl (Solo, 25min)
Fragmente*Liebe | Tanz*Hotel (Quartett, 50min)
Oct 19th, 2025, 7.30pm
Chimeric Clone | Verena Schneider (Solo, 15min)
Du Bleda Bua | Schülande Engaling
Trio, 60min. setting of texts by Christine Nöstlingers to tone
Voice: Sarah Jung | Drums: Judith Schwarz | Voice/Effects: Anna Widauer
Oct 21st and 22nd, 2025, 7.30pm
zwischen zwiebeln | Natalie Campbell
Solo, 20min. From T*H residency project AAR Term 25
Performance, Choreography, Texts: Natalie Campbell | Sounddesign: Lorenz von Hötting | Mentoring AAR Term 25: Andrea Nagl
Sonanzen | lux flux
Trio, 30-40min. Premiere. From T*H residency project AAR Term 26
Performance: Wolfgang Jagschitz, Inge Kaindlstorfer, Bruni Sand
Oct 24th and 25th, 2025, 7.30pm
Deer Dreams | Robert Steijn
Solo, 40min, Premiere. From T*H residency project AAR Term 26
Direction, Performance: Robert Steijn | Doll/Costume: Janneke Raaphorst | Music: Dennis Ferrer*
Poor Guy | Luigi Guerrieri
Solo, 40min. From T*H residency project AAR Term 24
Conception, Performance: Luigi Guerrieri | Mentoring AAR Term 24: Alberto Cissello
Oct 26th, 2025, 7.30pm
Chimeric Clone | Verena Schneider (Solo, 15min)
Moritaten aus dem Wienerwald | Gilbert Handler
Duo, 60min. Subversive songs from Vienna and surroundings
Music, Performance, Voice: Gilbert Handler with Alexandra Sommerfeld
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SMALL STAGE | INSTALLATION & PERFORMANCES
Oct 16th - 26th, 2025, 7.30pm
Ariadne - Fries | Christoff Wiesinger
permanent photography and music installation
Photography, Installation: Christoff Wiesinger | Computermusic Odyssee: Günther Rabl
Performance Installation | Oct 16th, 19th and 26th 2025, 7.30pm
Chimeric Clone (Solo 15min)
Performance: Verena Schneider | Dramaturgy: Bert Gstettner
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ON STAGE | DETAILED PROGRAM
Fragmente*Liebe
Dance-Performance Natalie Campbell, Misael Romero | Text-Performance Lilly Prohaska
Drums-Performances Jörg Mikula | Costume Hanna Adlaoui-Mayerl | Objects Peter Sandbichler
Choreography, Artistic direction, Stage Bert Gstettner
Origin Roland Barthes: A Lover's Discourse: Fragments | Suhrkamp, 1984
Photos: Hanna Fasching, 2025
The fragment as a building block or fragment is the impulse-giving element of this dance-language-rhythm performance, based on text condensations from Roland Barthes‘ A Lover's Discourse: Fragments.
T*H F*L >>>
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becoming [stone]
Performance, Choreography Andrea Nagl
Live-Music, Composition Karlheinz Essl
Geological support Reinhard Roetzel
Fotos: Hanna Fasching, 2025
Between deep time and tectonic movement, rock and memory, Andrea Nagl searches for forms of embodiment: What happens when the body sediments, when thinking slows down, when time becomes matter? Based on the medieval tale of Kidhy, experiences of geological fieldwork, and the realization that even solid rock is only a transitional state, her performance invites us to give space to the “meaning of stone” (Novalis) and to think about the world beyond human categories.
naglandrea.com >>> | essl.at >>> | AAR Term 26 >>>
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Sonanzen
Bruni Sand räumt die Wohnung - ein autobiographisches Gewebe
Performance Wolfgang Jagschitz, Inge Kaindlstorfer, Bruni Sand
Artistic direction Inge Kaindlstorfer / luxflux
Photos: Hanna Fasching, 2025
Based on autobiographical texts by Bruni Sand, a whimsical, fairytale-like fabric of language, movement, dance and live music is formed. The trivial mixes with the dramatic - spaces of memory open up and are made to resonate through the actions of the performers: a wide variety of patterns emerge, individual threads are picked up again and again and rewoven in surprising combinations. Playing together in the here and now disturbs the possible nostalgia. The performers escape their twilight and awaken each other - marveling at the never-ending possibilities of being human.
luxflux.at >>> | AAR Term 26 >>>
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Deer Dreams
- the end of patriarchy, prayer for a cosmic body
Direction, Performance Robert Steijn
Puppet/Costume Janneke Raaphorst | Music Dennis Ferrer
Thanks to Laterna (Oslo), ImFlieger (Vienna), Eindorf Gallery (Vienna), The New Dionysian Portal (Brussels), Fruits of life (Kreuzlingen) and Tanz*Hotel
Photos: Hanna Fasching, 2025
We are living in tumultuous times, as we are in the midst of the last days of patriarchy. It is time to change our attitude toward control and domination, particularly in our relationship with planet Earth. In this solo, Robert reflects on the place of human life in the cosmos. How we humans fit into an ecosystem that is not based on the survival of the fittest through aggression, exploitation, and exclusion. Through dance and image, the solo explores a collective mindset that celebrates interconnectedness and inclusion. Robert Steijn has long studied the alchemy of the moment when the sun embraces the moon: the time of the eclipse to change our perception of reality - prayer for a cosmic body - the end of patriarchy.
Robert Steijn @ Insta >>> | AAR Term 26
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zwischen zwiebeln
Performance, Choreography, Texts, Objects Natalie Campbell
Sound & Sounddesign Lorenz von Hötting
AAR Term 25 Mentoring Andrea Nagl
Photo: Hanna Fasching, 2025
The common onion (allium cepa) is a plant of the leek family. Cutting onions releases sulphur compounds that irritate our eyes and cause tears. The cultivation technique of cutting onions is passed down from grandmother to mother to daughter. Along the matriline, I follow the discarded onion skins of my family. Trying to get deeper, layer by layer, to my onion-cutting ancestors. Leathery-skinned, garden soil under my fingernails. Do we have a common core?
Insta: @nat_ali_campbell >>> | AAR Term 25 >>>
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Poor Guy
Conception, Performance Luigi Guerrieri
AAR Term 24 Mentoring Alberto Cissello
Photo: Hanna Fasching, 2025
about me, me, me, ME. ME! I am the poor guy. I am the poor pan-sexual gypsy. POOR GUY is a performative autoethnography with the aim of creating narratives of self-realization and identity-finding through trauma plots and victimhood.
www.luigiguerrieri.com >>> | poverocristo.com >>> | AAR Term 24 >>>
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Ariadne - Fries | Bild-Musik-Installation
Photography and Installation Christoff Wiesinger
Computermusik "Odyssee" Günther Rabl
In the Ariadne frieze by Christoff Wiesinger, the story of a struggle with oneself and others is told in fragmentarily superimposed images, performed by the dancer Verena Schneider.
The visual installation is acoustically accompanied by the computer music Odyssee by Günther Rabl, a composition that leads into deeper temporal layers and tells of distant events.
christoff-wiesinger.at | canto-crudo.at (Günther Rabl)
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Chimeric Clone
Performances zur Bild-Musik-Installation 16., 19., 26.10.2025
Performance Verena Schneider
Dramaturgy Bert Gstettner
Photos: Hanna Fasching, 2025
Verena Schneider oscillates between the two icons of Greek mythology and dances the transition, the cracks and the connection between the stark naked Ariadne and the monstrous Minotaur.
verein-freifall.com >>> (Verena Schneider)
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Du Bleda Bua
Performance Schülande Engaling alias
Voice Sarah Jung | Drums Judith Schwarz | Voice/Effects Anna Widauer
Original text Christine Nöstlinger: Iba die gaunz oamen Leit | 1st ed., Vienna: Dachs Verlag, 1996
The trio Schülande Engaling interprets texts from Christine Nöstlinger's 1996 poetry collection Iba die gaunz oamen Leit, written in Viennese dialect. In it, Christine Nöstlinger describes personal abysses, people in dependence, in poverty, addicted, marginalized and yet her characters radiate an incredible strength and attraction. The texts are deeply moving and, despite all the tragedy, leave room for the typical Viennese black humor and wit. The trio wants to take Nöstlinger's thoughts and stories into the melodious and, based on the texts, develops sound spaces with which they try to turn the inner life or the emotional power of the texts outwards through the music. The music can only frame the text or open it up. The latter in a wide variety of musical forms, from improvisation to fixed song structures and purely instrumental pieces.
schülande engaling >>>
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Moritaten aus dem Wienerwald
Performance, Voice Gilbert Handler with Alexandra Sommerfeld
Something has happened. People have done things that usually have send them to prison. Gilbert Handler has scoured the Wienerwald and its environs. He looked for the big and small criminals of the last few decades and created a wonderful memorial to them in the form of his “Moritaten aus dem Wienerwald”. The legendary burglar king Johann Schani Breitwieser, Jack Unterweger, the angels of death from Lainz, the Klosterneuburg thieves and lesser-known and hapless characters with a criminal streak are sung about. What does the music sound like? A bit like the Prater, Urfahraner and Leopoldi markets, movie soundtracks, Viennese songs and, of course, the big, wide world!
gilbert-handler.com >>>
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T*H GAST*SPIELE TEAM
Artistic direction, Program Bert Gstettner
Technical direction, lights Veronika Mayerböck
Organisation, Coordination Claudia Bürger
Production assistant Limara Wriesnig
Graphic KorneliusTarmann_Design, Judith Rataitz
Video Sigrid Friedmann, Ulrich Kaufmann
Photos Hanna Fasching
Production Tanz*Hotel / Art*Act Kunstverein
Cooperation Theater am Werk
Support Kulturamt der Stadt Wien | Bildrecht
