Eva Würdinger
Developed site-specifically for mumoks’ basement white cube The Burgeoning takes Edward Muybridge’s locomotion studies as a conceptual point of departure in exploring synaesthetic dimensions of the figurative in motion.
Together with electronic music producer rRoxymore, set designer Stephanie Rauch and light designer Catalina Fernandez, Kaler explores the relationship between real-time composition, light as visual effects tool and the maelstrom of a gradually building industrial – cinematic – ambient techno soundtrack.
The Burgeoning fluctuates between query and gesture, introspection and exertion, between what is and what is yet to come. It is an attempt to shape and let movement be, as embodied prose, as poetry.
Artistic Direction, Choreography, Performance: Ian Kaler
Music, Soundtrack: rRoxymore
Light Design: Catalina Fernandez
Set Design, Dramaturgical Advice: Stephanie Rauch
Technical Support: Marco Tölzer
Sound Support: Andreas Hamza
Production Managent: das Schaufenster
Photo: Eva Würdinger
A Production by Ian Kaler, Co-production: ImPulsTanz Vienna International Dance Festival
Support by the City of Vienna Municipal Department of Cultural Affairs and the Republic of Austria
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
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.
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
Photos: Eva Würdinger
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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