Choreographer Anne Juren and director Annie Dorsen collaborate on Magical, a solo dance piece performed by Juren, which uses the canon of feminist performance art and the rituals of a magic show to play with illusion, trickery and transformation. The simultaneity of magic, choreography and performance leads a surprising turns: all deploy the power of metamorphosis, of the body, of the magic object, of the audience's vision. These transformations affect the spectators and arouse in them the desire to see through the events on the stage. In the process they themselves become the object of a manipulation. Juren devotes herself to the efficacy and secrets of the female body, in an enchantingly spectacular way.

REALISation Annie Dorsen, Anne Juren PERFORMANCE Anne Juren MAGIcian Steve Cuiffo MUSIc Christophe Demarthe stage Roland Rauschmeier stage assistant Sebastian Bauer LIghT Bruno Pocheron, Ruth Waldeyer Costume Miriam Draxl PRODUKTIONSASSISTENZ Ruth Ranacher

A production of Wiener Tanz- and Kunstbewegung in coproduction with ImPulsTanz. Funded by Kulturabteilung der Stadt Wien, des Bundesministeriums für Unterricht, Kunst und Kultur Österreich. Supported by Intpa – Internationales Netz für Tanz and Performance Austria

Des Tanzquartier Wien aus Mitteln des BMUKK und des BMeiA.

Photo © Simona Svitra