photo © Andrew Champlin
TQW Tanzquartier Vienna
Museumsplatz 1
1070 Vienna
Austria
Workshop by Ruth Anderwald + Leonhard Grond & Andrew Champlin
This artistic-research exploration starts with a somatic critique of opposing stillness to movement, body to cognition, and equilibrium to instability. Centering on dizziness and in/stability, we aim to reveal these states in a different light, offering the possibility of new perspectives. In/stability indicates a situation in which the possibilities of reality can no longer be grasped or navigated in a habitual manner. However, states of in/stability also present momentum for change and transformation. By introducing the fields of somaesthetics and somatic (dance) practices, such as Feldenkrais or ballet, the lab proposes a sensory and somatic approach to a different and enriched cognition and conceptualization with/in/stability. The lab’s somatic movement proposition focuses on the vestibular sense, which is our sense of balance, gravity, and orientation, and will invite participants to guided movement sessions. No prior experience is necessary, and all bodies and abilities are welcome.
The lab’s somatic movement proposition focuses on the vestibular sense, which is our sense of balance, gravity, and orientation, and will invite participants to guided movement sessions. No prior experience is necessary, and all bodies and abilities are welcome.
are artist-researchers and guest professors at ARC Artistic Research Center, mdw – University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, and affiliate members of CSS Centre for Sensory Studies, Concordia University, Montreal/Tio'tia:ke. Their projects include The Arts of Resistance (2024–25, CREA2027), ART WORKS! (2019–21, Erasmus+), Navigating Dizziness Together (2020–24, AR 598), and Dizziness – A Resource(2014–17, AR 244). Having curated for Whitechapel Gallery, London, Kunsthalle Wien, and Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art, Warsaw, they are currently developing an exhibition, performance, and discursive series, Iliggocene – The Age of Dizziness (2025–28), with curator Sergio Edelsztein.
is a performer, artistic researcher, and dance teacher from the United States. His work engages performance training, technique, and history from a queer, relational perspective, shaped by his long collaboration with Janet Panetta. He holds a BA from The New School and an MA in Choreography from Stockholm University of the Arts. He is currently pursuing a PhD in Artistic Research at the University of Applied Arts Vienna.
