Evening of
Short Pieces
5 outstanding dancers in just one evening:
Evgenia Stavropoulou (GR/AT) Ariadne's Threads
Miyo Noire (AT) Feelings - 1000 Plateaus and the Jungle
Maruska Ronchi (IT) Whisper of Silence
Sofya Shaikut (RU/DE) Klara K.
Tina Besnard (FR) Brumante
Date:
17.10.2025, 19:00
Location:
OFF Theater I open:box
Kirchengasse 41, 1070 Wien, Austria
Entrance Fee:
Regular: EUR 25
Discount 1 (Seniors, Club Ö1): EUR 19
Discount 2 (Pupils, students, IGFT members, Ö1 intro): EUR15
Tickets:
Phone: +43 676 360 62 06
Mail: karten@off-theater.at
Onlineshop (8% discount)
Evening of
Short Pieces
5 outstanding dancers in just one evening:
Evgenia Stavropoulou (GR/AT) Ariadne's Threads
Miyo Noire (AT) Feelings - 1000 Plateaus and the Jungle
Maruska Ronchi (IT) Whisper of Silence
Sofya Shaikut (RU/DE) Klara K.
Tina Besnard (FR) Brumante
Date:
17.10.2025, 19:00
Location:
OFF Theater I open:box
Kirchengasse 41, 1070 Wien, Austria
Entrance Fee:
Regular: EUR 25
Discount 1 (Seniors, Club Ö1): EUR 19
Discount 2 (Pupils, students, IGFT members, Ö1 intro): EUR15
Tickets:
Phone: +43 676 360 62 06
Mail: karten@off-theater.at
Onlineshop (8% discount)
Evening of
Short Pieces
5 outstanding dancers in just one evening:
Evgenia Stavropoulou (GR/AT) Ariadne's Threads
Miyo Noire (AT) Feelings - 1000 Plateaus and the Jungle
Maruska Ronchi (IT) Whisper of Silence
Sofya Shaikut (RU/DE) Klara K.
Tina Besnard (FR) Brumante
Date:
17.10.2025, 19:00
Location:
OFF Theater I open:box
Kirchengasse 41, 1070 Wien, Austria
Entrance Fee:
Regular: EUR 25
Discount 1 (Seniors, Club Ö1): EUR 19
Discount 2 (Pupils, students, IGFT members, Ö1 intro): EUR15
Tickets:
Phone: +43 676 360 62 06
Mail: karten@off-theater.at
Onlineshop (8% discount)
Evening of
Short Pieces
5 outstanding dancers in just one evening:
Evgenia Stavropoulou (GR/AT) Ariadne's Threads
Miyo Noire (AT) Feelings - 1000 Plateaus and the Jungle
Maruska Ronchi (IT) Whisper of Silence
Sofya Shaikut (RU/DE) Klara K.
Tina Besnard (FR) Brumante
Date:
17.10.2025, 19:00
Location:
OFF Theater I open:box
Kirchengasse 41, 1070 Wien, Austria
Entrance Fee:
Regular: EUR 25
Discount 1 (Seniors, Club Ö1): EUR 19
Discount 2 (Pupils, students, IGFT members, Ö1 intro): EUR15
Tickets:
Phone: +43 676 360 62 06
Mail: karten@off-theater.at
Onlineshop (8% discount)
Evening of
Short Pieces
5 outstanding dancers in just one evening:
Evgenia Stavropoulou (GR/AT) Ariadne's Threads
Miyo Noire (AT) Feelings - 1000 Plateaus and the Jungle
Maruska Ronchi (IT) Whisper of Silence
Sofya Shaikut (RU/DE) Klara K.
Tina Besnard (FR) Brumante
Date:
17.10.2025, 19:00
Location:
OFF Theater I open:box
Kirchengasse 41, 1070 Wien, Austria
Entrance Fee:
Regular: EUR 25
Discount 1 (Seniors, Club Ö1): EUR 19
Discount 2 (Pupils, students, IGFT members, Ö1 intro): EUR15
Tickets:
Phone: +43 676 360 62 06
Mail: karten@off-theater.at
Onlineshop (8% discount)
Evgenia Stavropoulou (GR/AT)
Ariadne's Threads
As myth tells, Ariadne is associated with the Lady of the Labyrinth, symbolizing clarity and wisdom in both tangling and untangling.
Daedalus, the architect of the labyrinth, also built a dancing floor for her, decorated with labyrinthine patterns. This suggests a profound connection between dance and the labyrinth—a space of both entrapment and revelation.
Similarly, the Sufi dervishes whirl to the cosmic dance of the universe.
Show the scar of your heart,
for by the scars, one recognizes those who walk the path of love.
O Cupbearer, fill my cup with the blood of my heart,
and when all has been drunk, pour me even the last drops.
(Farid al-Din Attar)
Weaving together the thread of the mythical Ariadne with the poetry of the Sufi poet Farid al-Din Attar, the mythological event receives a transcendent dimension where suffering is not merely endured but transfigured into metaphoric images.
Duration: 20 minutes
Concept, Direction, Performance: Evgenia Stavropoulou
Music: Ioannis Karras; live lute: Denis Mete
About
EVGENIA STAVROPOULOU is an actress, performance storyteller and puppeteer.
After dropping out of her physics studies, she devoted herself to theater. She studied acting at the Archi theater school in Athens - including with the Balinese master actor Tapa Sudana. As an actress she appeared with various ensembles in Greece and Austria.
Since 2006 she has been doing one-(wo)man shows where performative storytelling (with or without objects and characters, or shadow theater) is the focus.
Since 2008 she has been working as a puppeteer in the puppet theater Lilarum.
In 2016-17 she visited the workshop for puppet and marionette making and acting / Theater Ayusaya / Athens and organized her own narrative workshop: Developing the thread of narrative as part of her training in acting and theater education with a focus on narrative.
Her passion is myths and legends from all over the world and martial arts from the Far East. She writes poetry and stories, sees art as a means of self-knowledge and has a vision for the rebirth of mythological life.
Miyo Noire (AT)
Feelings - 1000 Plateaus and the Jungle
This contemporary dance & butoh fusion performance with live saxophone performance illustrates rhizomatic worlds of perception, feelings and being. A reminder that we are a living, ever shifting process.
Duration: 8 minutes
Concept, Dance: Miyo Noire
Live Music: Michael Auinger (Saxophone)
Background music: Nils Frahm The dog with 1000 faces
About
MIYO NOIRE is a philosopher, embodiment researcher and practitioner living in Vienna.
Her artistic approach is to translate post-modern philosophy into performance, contemporary dance, shibari rope, somatic experiences and experimental expression. Additionally, she teaches workshops on embodiment topics.
Iterative themes of her work are body modification and positioning as well as dialogues between technology and vulnerability. Her current projects are the combination of shibari ropes with butoh, contemporary dance and CI.
The portfolio of Vienna-based guitarist and saxophonist MICHAEL AUINGER ranges from ethnic jazz fusion to electronic music, progressive rock & art rock. His work focuses on crossing genre boundaries in improvisation and the narrative element - music as part of a multimedia experience, infused with context and storytelling. In addition to his activities as a freelance artist, Michael works as a developer and facilitator for creative processes (e.g. coach for the Choch3 creative business coaching) and is currently developing, based on his PhD project, a model for creative and innovation processes based on Bruno Latour and Actor-Network-Theory.
Michael Auinger graduated from the Musikborg Linz Hohenauerstraße with a focus on electric guitar, learned jazz saxophone with Thomas Mandel and studied jazz saxophone in Vienna with Clemens Salesny and Astrid Wiesinger. He works as a freelance artist and composer in various engagements in Austria and neighboring countries, as a studio musician and in music theater productions.
Maruska Ronchi (IT)
Whisper of Silence
In the realm where the words retreat
There is a place of deep and quiet heed
A sanctuary for images to appear
Wher
Where whispers echo, yet find no home
In the stillness, secrets are conveyed
Within its folds memories thrive, unveiling truths that time achieves.
Revealing the depths of a restless abyss.
Silence speaks with a gentle explosion.
In absence of sound, melodies arise.
Dance allows the void to reveal itself
(Maruska Ronchi)
The underlying idea of this performance is the constant search for space and silence within the body and mind, to connect with inner and outer landscapes, seeking a state of emptiness to feel the energy of space and the audience and play with it, in a constant quest for deep states and connection.
The audience will find themselves immersed in a ritual space where they can experience another space/time, where silence and slowness allow them to find space for their own emotion, to be carried away by archetypal images that resonate deeply within.
The work is clearly based on instant composition and improvisation, embracing risk, walking on the edge of the abyss, encountering the unknown.
Free improvisation represents a genuine and intimate manifestation of dance, reflecting the unpredictability and complexity of life itself. In the realm of free improvisation, there is no refuge for concealment; authenticity reigns supreme.
In this art form, the dancer can draw from the reservoir of her past dance learnings, life experiences, and artistic encounters accumulated over the years, but at the same time, she will seek to break out of her own patterns and remain completely open to the energy of space and the audience, to feel the unique here and now that happens only once.
In Zen Buddhism, there is a word "Ichigo-ichie" used to indicate a unique moment in life. Being aware of Ichigoichie means knowing that every experience we live is a treasure that will never repeat itself in the same way. In recent years, after the pandemic, I have embarked on a gradual journey of discovery, revealing the wonder and hidden charm in this practice. In the realm of free improvisation, I step onto the stage with the exciting, terrifying, and exhilarating uncertainty of what awaits us. An embodiment of the ever-changing nature of our own existence.
Duration: 20 minutes
Concept, Dance: Maruska Ronchi
Music: Michele Marchesani, Léo Delibes
About
MARUSKA RONCHI, butoh dancer, choreographer and performer, uses onirical language, images from subconscious, to create her own dance. Digging in the body’s movements. She like to conceive the creative process, and dance process, like an alchemical process of dissolution and concretion, and reiteration of the work on the body’s matter, where body and mind become one. As a process of transmutation.
In her dances she explores different paths. As in the alchemical process, she’s looking for the conjunction of opposites, sulfur and mercury, Sun and Moon, light and shadow, life and death, Apollo and Dionisus, order and caos, active and passive. She explores how the movement creates the images and how images create movement, in a double and mutual interconnection.
With a contemporary dance background, she discovers in Butoh a new approach to dance, more closed to ancient ritual and to spiritual world, finding a special unique beauty in each individual, and in each manifestation of nature.
She’s now combining my Contemporary Dance, Theatre and Somatic Practices background, with Butoh, to find different entrances into a “dance state”, where the dancer makes visible the bonds between things, between the visible and “invisible” world.
She like making collaboration with other artists to make and developing original way for new creations.
She has been invited to perform in many different countries in Europe (France, Germany, Poland, Italy, Denmark, Switzerland, Spain), in Canada and Japan. She also danced under direction of Joan Laage, and Seisaku.
She is the co-funder of HAIKUMU project with Ursula Pehlke and Willian Lopes.
In 2021 she participated at Sens-Ability project initiated by the corean artist Gio (Hyunju Shin), a collaborative online experiment with 14 multinational artists with online content production, online improvisation, workshops and Lab.
She worked more than 10 year assistant of butoh master Atsushi Takenouchi in his workshops and Butoh school. She guides workshops in studio and in the nature all over the world.
Sofya Shaikut (RU/DE)
Klara K.
Wearing the dress of a woman who died with 90 years the dancer metamorphose into a yokai of accumulation and control, and the frustrated desire to escape it.
Their lifves were intertwined. The dancer saw the old woman slowly die, saw how she couldn’t move, hear or see but still clung to her objects: jewels, coats, bathroom towels, hundreds of toothbrushes. The old woman’s complex personality inspired this piece,.Klara K. is a spirit of a woman who cannot let go.
Butoh's animist features are well-known but in this performance the dancer seeks what is to bring a spirit back to life?
Duration: 15 minutes
Concept, Dance: Sofya Shaikut
About
SOFYA SHAIKUT is a performative artist, choreographer, Butoh dancer and writer based in Berlin. She is working at the crossroads of Butoh and philosophy and exploring alternative forms of subjectivity. She explores dance as a practice that enhances our potential for transformation vis-à-vis the eternally recurring forces that make and unmake our lives (love, hatred, tenderness, strife…) in the persuasion that like this we can creatively re-situate ourselves amidst the worlds we build and in relation to the earth in which they are rooted.
Among her recent works is Phäeton, with Pere Ros (viola da gamba) presented at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Madrid and a co-authored book Dionysus and Apollo after Nihilism published in Brill. Sofya’s dance is most influenced by Atsushi Takenouchi and Imre Thormann, though she has also studied butō at OddDance Theatre (with Natalia Zhestovskaya and Grigory Glazunov), at New Butoh School (with Sayoko Onishi), and has taken some classes with Katsura Kan, Ima Tenko, Yumiko Yoshioka and Marlène Jöbstl.
Tina Besnard (FR)
Brumante
Brumante deals with the archetype of femininity in all its aspects seen from a human and animal point of view : motherhood, nutrition, magic ritual, childbirth, abandonment, domination.
Duration: 25 minutes
Concept, Dance: Tina Besnard
Music: Anne Germanique
About
TINA BESNARD started as a Modern Jazz dancer and actress. She trained in theater and vocal improvisation at the Roy Hart Theater and she is a yin yoga teacher.
She discovered Butoh in 2008 with Sumako Koseki and then mainly worked with Atsushi Takenouchi, Masaki Iwana, Gyohei Zaitsu, Yumiko Yoshioka and Imre Thormann.
As early as 2010 she performed in Butoh dance with visual artists and composers and music improviser. She guides Butoh dance workshops, including students, mainly in France.
Her main lines of research focus on :
- the tension due to extreme human fragility, which lets the body no other choice but to be both active and passive,
- the shadows which, in full light, appear in a pernicious way and lead the soul to gradually integrate both of them,
- the purity of an untouched matter which is suddenly or latently contaminated,
- How the body finds a dialog between light and darkness in an organic desire of redemption,
- the flow of mysterious images which go through the body when we let the sheath of everyday time melt.