Singing Homesickness
18:30 ARGEkultur Foyer
Pava Ukrainian Choir, 25'
Slackline
19:00 ARGEkultur Saal
Barbara Foldesi: Network
Slackline-Performance / Premiere, 45'
Dance films 1
20:00 ARGEkultur Studio
Short films from Poland, Finland, Austria
Ukrainian Choir, 25'The ensemble PAVA, founded in 2022, unites Ukrainians in Germany who share their love for Ukrainian song. The group is constantly evolving and brings the culture of their homeland closer to a wide audience through singing.
Their program includes Ukrainian folk songs from different times and regions. They tell about feelings and moments of life and still shape the identity of the Ukrainian people.
The ensemble PAVA, founded in 2022, unites Ukrainians in Germany who share their love for Ukrainian song. The group is constantly evolving and brings Ukrainian culture closer to a wide audience through singing.
Duo, 30 min.
The performers enter a network of slacklines stretched across the space. It trembles, tightens, vibrates, and yields. Who risks themselves, and who risks the others? Between instability and safety, autonomy, dependency and responsibility, they are constantly challenged to develop new strategies of balance and action in order to sustain themselves within the network.
artistic direction Barbara Földesi
choreography & performance N.N., N.N. Barbara Földesi
dramaturgy Bettina Földesi
sound composition Johannes Van Bebber
light design Stefan Ebner
funded by Stadt Salzburg, Land Salzburg
Barbara Földesi is a freelance dancer and choreographer based in Salzburg. Her work focuses on movement research and balance objects from contemporary circus. Since 2021 she has been directing the research program Circus/Tanz/Labor. Since 2023 she has been developing two trilogies – the WELTEN series with rolling globes and the WERKE series with slacklines.
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Shapes of Aether explores aether as an unseen, transformative force. Set in Iceland’s primordial landscape, body, sound, and movement become a medium through which the elements converge and consciousness takes physical form.
with Weng Teng Choi-Buttinger; Noemi James Buttinger
directed by Elias Choi-Buttinger
Elias Choi-Buttinger is a freelance dancer and choreographer with over 20 years of international experience. His work bridges urban and contemporary dance with film, focusing on transformation, embodiment, and the relationship between humans and nature.
The short fi lm draws parallels from the dancer’s upbringing in one of Poland’s strictest dancing schools and to today’s patriarchic system, in which an institution has more say over a female’s body than herself.
My Womb is a love letter for everyone who stands up for themselves.
with Anna Lis
directed, captured and edited by Martina Trepczyk
assistants David Ruhmer, Lina Reisinger
written by Martina Trepczyk, based on an Interview with Anna Lis
voice over Elisa Godino
sound recording David Furrer, Aurora Studios
photographs courtesy to Family Lis
music “on earth” by Goldbloom, “24h” by Taris
Martina Trepczyk is an award-winning filmmaker, photographer, and artist whose work focuses on empowering women, environmental justice, and poetry. As a Leica ambassador and advocate for ocean protection, her multidisciplinary practice is rooted in activism and reclaiming narrative space. Her gaze is unapologetically female – open to nuances, resilience, vulnerability, and sensuality.
The 80-year-old Sanna lives alone with her memories and houseplants. One day Sanna sees an event from her window that makes her reminisce about her friends and notice her own loneliness.
with Ritva Kattelus (Sanna); Elli Hirvikoski, Kerttu Luhtala, Hilkka Isokoski, Isabella Ellison, Helinä Kokko (Childhood); Lydia Ponkiniemi, Aino Virkki, Antero Lehtonen, Tuomas Paljakka, Liisa Pohjonen, Mimi Heinonen, Fiina Nurmela, Maiju Hyvönen, Lotta Toivonen (Youth); Elina Häyrynen, Jukka Tarvainen, Nelli Saarelainen, Marjukka Savolainen, Ervi Sirén (Busy Years); Sisko Kinnunen, Eevi Heinonen, Marjatta Leivo, Kyllikki Joukama (Old Age)
directed by Kati Kallio
Kati Kallio is a Finnish award-winning dance filmmaker, curator and educator. Her films have been screened internationally in various festivals as well as broadcasted on television. The Finnish Circus and Dance Artists' Association awarded her in 2024 for her feminist film work and her work promoting Finnish dance film.
In the quiet of Vienna’s autumn, two individuals turn to nature to breathe, move, and loosen the grip of expectation. Their separate paths cross for a brief moment—shared, simple, and unspoken—before each continues alone, carrying something changed within.
with Nikola Majtanova, Marcin Denkiewicz
directed by Niki&Martin Duo
supported by Playing Bodies Erasmus, project in collaboration with Body Architects
Niki&Martin Duo works across performing and visual arts, with a focus on contemporary dance. Collaborations with Laja Field, Body Architects, editta braun company, Paul Blackman, and Jan Lauwers shape their highly physical, theater-infused work. They create dance films, develop site-specific projects and teach partner technique internationally.
Inspired by the African dance legend Germaine Acogny, from whom Editta Braun herself once took important inspiration, this film encourages women around the world to take their fate into their own hands. This moving feminist dance manifesto shows imprisonment and the desire for freedom, the struggle for self-determination and the power of solidarity and utopia.
A dance film project by Editta Braun & Menie Weissbacher
with Germaine Acogny, Weng Teng Choi-Buttinger, Nikola Majtanova, Maja Mirek, Jerca Rožnik Novak and others
directed, choreographed, written, edited by Editta Braun
camera, post-production, buildings, special effects Menie Weissbacher
composition, audio post-production Thierry Zaboitzeff
funded by City of Salzburg, State of Salzburg, BMWKMS
As a dancer, choreographer and stage director, Editta Braun enjoys an international reputation with her editta braun company. For several years now, she has also made a name for herself with highly acclaimed and multi-award-winning dance films, for which she handles not only the choreography but also the direction and editing.