now

Immersive Dance Performance

Since the introduction of Universal Time in 1884, clocks all around the world have ticked almost synchronously. In contrast, humanity’s relationship to its own living environment has gotten increasingly out of time. In Inge Gappmaier’s performance now, alternating between measurable time and perceived time, the poetry of bodies intensifies as it gets more and more entangled with an immersive sound to create aesthetically charged emotional and receptive spaces. The audience is invited to freely move through now and track their own sense of time.

In her dance performance installation now, Inge Gappmaier allows the audience to feel moments in time as units of space. Focusing on the specific experience of our present, the piece understands the now not as a volatile moment on a linear timeline but as a permanent state of definite duration. In a suspenseful, multi-dimensional walk-in universe of sound and movement, five dancers feel their pulses and accumulative moments of their times in overlapping solos, searching for where the technical timescale gets inscribed in someone’s self-conception. The now becomes a global turning point, a moment to articulate emotions and the only space for reception and agency. we. here. now.

further Information (DE): www.now.varukt.at
Programm (DE)
brut Website

Premiere
25 September 2024, brut Vienna

Artistic direction Inge Gappmaier Dance, Performance Su Huber, Lea Karnutsch, Sara Lanner, Luan de Lima, Melina Papoulia Stage and costume Mira König Music, Composition Christian Schröder Music, Arrangement Paul Kotal Lighting design Robert Läßig Assistance Melina Papoulia, Marianne Sophie Huber Dramaturgical Consultancy Olivia Hild, Robert Läßig Dance, Performance 2023 Anna Biczók, Magdalena Forster Photography Natali Glišić Video documentation Ulrich A. Reiterer Production Inge Gappmaier Administration Julia Haas

Thanks to Lisa-Marie Radtke, Alberto Cisello and especially Eva-Maria Kraft

A co-production by varukt | Inge Gappmaier and brut Wien.

With the kind support of the City of Vienna’s Department of Cultural Affairs and the Austrian Federal Ministry of Art, Culture, Civil Service and Sport.
Thanks to RedSapata, Rennweg Studios and ttp WUK.