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Four persons calmly wait on the edges of a white dance floor while we, the audience, enter the theatre at WUK performing art, Werkstätten und Kulturhaus, in Vienna. A warm white wash lights hundreds of precisely organized A5 cards spread out on the stage floor. Once we sit, one of the persons introduces herself as…
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On October 3, 2025, I went to the performance Constellation #4 – Shows for Futures by Animalarium Dance Collective. I don’t go to performances that often anymore and, honestly, I only went to support my friends and colleagues. The idea of using systemic constellation work in a performance had my eyes rolling a bit beforehand and I…
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Processes as performanceAnimalarium Dance Collective has developed a practice combining improvisation, choreography and systemic constellation work, called Choreo-Constellating. They share this practice in workshops and performances which are entangled and allow different levels of participation in the work. A workshop at Zukunftshof and one at WUK performing arts preceded the most recent performance at the…
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Your piece is titled Constellation #4 – Shows for Futures. What lies behind the idea of a “Constellation” – and what makes this way of working unique for you? The term “constellation” signals a refusal to center the individual. In Animalarium´s Constellations we are interested in exploring interdependence beyond the human: in the ways bodies,…
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Choreo-Constellating: An Artistic Practice of Embodied Storytelling and Collective Sense-Making In a time of increasing complexity, fragmentation, and systemic crisis, how might we collectively and artistically sense and respond to forces shaping our lived experiences? How can the body become a site of knowledge, not only for personal expression but also for collective understanding and…
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