18:30 ARGEkultur Foyer
PAVA: Singing Homesickness Ukrainian choir, 25'
19:00 ARGEkultur Saal
Barbara Földesi (Borka Collectif): Network slackline-performance / Premiere, 45'
20:00 ARGEkultur Studio
Dance films 1: short films from Poland, Finland, Austria 45'
Ukrainian choir, 25'Ensemble PAVA, founded in 2022, brings together Ukrainians in Germany who share their love for Ukrainian song. The group continues to grow and brings the culture of their homeland to a wider audience through singing.
The program includes Ukrainian folk songs from different times and regions: lyrical, ritual, and everyday songs. They convey emotions and moments of life and continue to shape the identity of the Ukrainian people to this day.
premiere, 45'
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 Javier Mario Salcedo Hernández, Daniel Maciá Pérez, Barbara Földesi
dramaturgy Bettina Földesi
sound composition Johannes Van Bebber
light design Stefan Ebner
funded by Stadt Salzburg, Land Salzburg, BMWKMS
The Borka Collective was founded in 2026 by Barbara Földesi and Bettina Földesi. Netzwerk is their third collaborative work, in which they combine contemporary dance and circus and use balancing objects as the starting point for their choreographic processes. As a collective, they work with both recurring and new collaborators, bringing together various artistic perspectives and practices.
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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 film 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 female empowerment, environmental justice, and poetry. As a Leica ambassador and a ocean conservation advocate
, her multidisciplinary practice is rooted in activism and reclaiming narrative space. Her lens is unapologetically female – attuned to nuance, resilience, vulnerability, and sensuality.
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
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.
A dance film project by Editta Braun & Menie Weissbacher
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.
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 Stadt Salzburg, Land 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.