Today’s guest is Mélissa Guex, who’s work DOWN (full album) was invited to this years [8:tension] Series. 

She talked about her fascination for big crowds. About the magic of instant connection and how she met the drummer Clement Grin,  with whom she created the piece. How she sometimes prefers speaking with her body to speaking with her mouth. And the importance of warming up and accepting downs.

Almud Krejza was talking with Mélissa during ImPulsTanz Festival 2025.

Today’s guest is Marika Peura, who’s work Amalgam Melee was invited to this year’s [8:tension] Series. 

We talked about violence – and what difference it makes, who defines what violence is. About the longing for belonging. And how to appropriate a culture which is your own, but is still not very familiar. And about dynamics one cannot control, neither in real life nor on stage. 

Almud Krejza was talking with Marika Peura during ImPulsTanz Festival 2025.

Today’s guests are Lisen Pousette and Olivia Rivière, the makers of the performance DUNKEL, which was invited to this year’s [8:tension] Series.

We talked about the time when they met in choir school and how singing is their natural habitat. How they moved on from soprano and alto to heavy metal and growling and about their ongoing fascination with the deconstruction of the voice.

Almud Krejza was talking with Lisen Pousette and Olivia Rivière during ImPulsTanz Festival 2025.

Today’s guest is Martina De Dominicis, who’s work Latente was invited to this years [8:tension] Series.

Martina talked about nostalgia as something more than missing the past, but missing the future, which one thought would come but did not, about how fruitful it can be to trust in one‘s gut-feeling. And about the importance of unlearning as well as of doing things one can not do - yet.

Almud Krejza was talking with Martian De Dominicis during ImPulsTanz Festival 2025.

Today’s guest is Matteo Haitzmann, composer and choreographer, who’s work Make it Count was invited to this years [8:tension] Series. 

He told me which lessons from being a danceWEBber back in 2018 came in handy now, being back at the festival for a residency. How the restrictions during Corona times made him accidentally invent a new instrument. And which role the village he grew up in still plays for him when creating.

Almud Krejza was talking with Matteo Haitzmann during ImPulsTanz FestivaL 2025.

Today’s guest is Netti Nüganen. Known to ImPulsTanz audiences as part of a number of Florentina Holzinger’s productions, she first presented one of her own performances at this year’s festival. Her piece The Myth: last day, a pseudo-archeological excavation turned punk concert, is an exercise in how history is constructed. With author Sean Pfeiffer, Nüganen further reflects on this intersection of fact and fiction. They also discuss how engaging with both text material and physical objects constitutes her performative practice.

Today’s guest is Camilla Schielin, a dancer-choreographer working in Vienna. After showing her solo piece into (quickening ground) at ImPulsTanz, she talked with author Sean Pfeiffer about the development of the piece, the music and dance styles that influenced it, and how other performers shape her work.

Today’s guest is Luca Bonamore, a dancer and choreographer from Vienna. His latest group piece, Silent Lovers, is concerned with cruising - a historically queer practice of public sexual encounters. In his conversation with author Sean Pfeiffer, Bonamore discusses his start as a dancer, what it means to open up the private to the public, and navigating the multitude of Viennese spaces he performs in. 

Today’s guests are choreographer-performer Jette Loona Hermanis from Estland and visual artist and stage designer Anna Ansone from Latvia. They sat down with author Sean Pfeiffer to talk about their collaborative piece FrostBite, a post-nuclear fantasy between theatre, dance and installation. They also discuss the importance of genre, fashion and improvisation in their work, and how they channelled child’s play in developing the piece.

Today’s guests are j. bouey and Tyrone Bevans, both waacking dancers and choreographers based in New York. With author Sean Pfeiffer, they discuss the history of waacking and the world premiere of their duet A Message at ImPulsTanz. They also talk about finding inspiration in the 1970s and dance as a vehicle for liberation.