ImpulsTanz Festival [ENA] There is a small, luminous tradition of dance made in mourning for its own photographers, and Captura y fuga — José Manuel Álvarez's solo for the Vienna festival at the Kasino am Schwarzenbergplatz — joins it with unusual grace. The piece is a choreographic monument to René Robert, the Swiss-French photographer who spent fifty years documenting the great cantaores, guitarristas and bailaores of of flamenco.   [Full story...]

ImpulsTanz [ENA] Some choreographers respond to a divided country with lament; Eun-Me Ahn responds with a rainbow, a gayageum, and a techno beat. At the Volkstheater, Korea's most exuberant living choreographer gave North Korea Dance its Austrian premiere as the anchor of ImPulsTanz 2026's Fokus Korea strand, and the seventy-five minutes that followed were as generous and politically clear-eyed a piece of contemporary dance.   [Full story...]