You are song, to me
You are song, to me marks the beginning of a new series of works that center trans-masculine experience in storytelling and collaborations. Together with artist, poet, and performer Romeo Roxmann Gatt, Kaler explores states of suspension through underwater movement and work with the voice following a testosterone induced voice break. The video piece blurs text, voice, and song in an intimate exchange between the two protagonists and emphasizes the act of viewing, examining the staging and embodiment of intimacy and belonging beyond fetishization and spectacle.
Tanzquartier Wien presents the work in a site-specific video installation and with performative activations by Ian Kaler and Romeo Roxmann Gatt at the opening and closing events. You are song, to me takes place in dialogue with OIL, a spatial experiment by Isabel Lewis & Dirk Bell.
18. – 22. November 2025 @Tanzquartier Wien Studios
18.11.2025 Activation: Ian Kaler
22.11.2025 Activation: Ian Kaler, Romeo Roxman Gatt
Artistic Direction: Ian Kaler
Performance, Choreography, Text: Romeo Roxman Gatt, Ian Kaler
Piano Score: Romeo Roxman Gatt
Installationsetting: Stephanie Rauch
Videodesign, Editing: Dafne Narvaez Berlfein
Soundtrack: rRoxymore
Cinematography: Eli Börnicke
Diving Instructor: Jessica Schäfer
Vocal Coaching: Aled Pedrick
Production Management: das Schaufenster
A Production by Ian Kaler, Co-production: Tanzquartier Wien and PACT Zollverein.
Supported by the City of Vienna Municipal Department of Cultural Affairs and Federal Ministery Housing, Arts, Culture, Media and Sport, Republic of Austria (BMWKMS).
Special Thanks to Ann Oren
RAW PRACTICE: SYNAESTHETIX
Ian Kaler, rRoxymore & Dafne Narvaez Berlfein
RAW PRACTICE is a collaborative live practice format exploring the connections between movement practice, live music (rRoxymore) and live visuals/video design (Dafne Narvaez Berlfein), and lighting design.
In the frame of Synaesthetix #2, the format will be adapted site-specifically for Zirka Munich. Kaler’s choreographic approach blending live performance, dance, video installation, and film, emerges through the collaboration and interplay with rRoxymore and Narvaez Berlfein. Together the trio generates an immersive choreo-cinematographic experience for the audience as part of this event combining dance, performance, concert, DJ set, media art and club night.
Concept, Choreography, Performance: Ian Kaler
Live Music, Soundtrack: rRoxymore
Live Visuals, Videodesign: Dafne Narvaez Berlfein
Production Management: das Schaufenster
Production: Ian Kaler
Support: City of Vienna | Culture, Federal Ministry for Housing, Arts, Culture, Media and Sport
The Growing Edge
Queer Lisboa International Queer Film Festival
26. September 2025
Oslo / Fusion 2025 – International Film Festival
20. September 2025
Present Futures / DCA Dundee Contemporary Arts
10. September 2025
The Growing Edge (Cinematography: Diara Sow)
Blurring the lines of choreography and storytelling, THE GROWING EDGE explores the theatrical and staged, the fictional and dreamlike in autobiography, reflecting on the depiction of lived queer and trans experience as personal and political narrative. Embedded in an eerie soundtrack by music producer rRoxymore, The Growing Edge develops a tender and emphatic dialogue and dance between past and present memories, timelines and experiences.
A Choreographic Play
AND FOR THE TIME BEING (Photo: Dieter Hartwig)
He rides through the forest at a comfortable, even pace. One he is free to set and keen not to waste. Nervous at first, but assured now by the unseen presence around him, unseen, but surely felt.
SENTIENT BEINGS (Videostill: Ethan Folk)
Photo: Eva Würdinger
A choreografic Play (Part 1)
28.2. & 1.3.2025, 7.30pm
Photo: Eva Würdiger
Photo: Eva Würdiger
Artistic Direction, Choreography, Text, Performance, Voice Over: Ian Kaler
Videoperformance: Luca Bonamore, Adela Maharani
Voices Dreamsequence: Chiara Aprea, Su Huber, Adela Maharani,
Mira Mann, Eve Schmechtig, Izabela Iza Soldaty, Enis Turan
Space: Stephanie Rauch
Music, Soundtrack: rRoxymore
Videodesign, Assistance Text-/Dramaturgy: Dafne Narvaez Berlfein
Lighting Design: Catalina Fernandez
Sound Design: Sebastian Bauer
Voice-Over Recordings: Andreas Hamza
Technical Direction: Marco Tölzer
Text Coaching: Jane Palmer
Vocal Coaching: Aled Pedrick
Production Management: das Schaufenster
Production: Ian Kaler
Coproduction: Tanzquartier Wien
Supported by the City of Vienna | Municipal Department Cultural Affairs and
the Federal Ministry Republic of Austria | Arts, Culture, Civil Service and Sport.
Research funded by Arts Council England.
OPEN STUDIO * CINE-PERFORMANCE LAB
18 Nov 2023, 6pm
Photo: Markus Gradwohl
Ian Kaler with guests Stephane Peeps, Stephanie Rauch, Dafne Narvaez Berlfein, Chris Standfest, Hannes Wurm and Sebastian Bauer. Join us for an informal evening of sketches, open studio conversations and sneak-peaks, closing with a DJ-set by Peeps.
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