PW-MAGAZINE (2025)

26/11/2025

LIGIA LEWIS - ME SEEING YOU SEEING ME
The stage aesthetics by Ligia Lewis can get described as a fever dream: fluid, transgressive and somewhere between horror, comedy and thriller. At the same time, she is testing the limits of empathy while keeping the viewers troubled. Instead of resolving conflicts of historical and contemporary oppressions against people of color and the forceful inscription of identity, she decides to intensify the problems in her performances, which renders cinematic moments, sensual melancholy, imagery form the late middle ages, and choreographic precision into challenging, defiant theatre.

On the occasion of Ligia Lewis’s solo exhibition “I’M NOT HERE FORRRRR…” at Gropius Bau and the premiere of her performance “Wayward Chant” happening 28./29.11.25, we are revisiting our earlier interview with the artist.

Interview by Lewon Heublein .heublein
Photos by Augustín Farias

Read the full interview online 🔗 link in bio

25/11/2025

CECI N’EST PAS UNE WIG: “HOW WE ALWAYS SURVIVED” BY PAULINE BOUDRY / RENATE LORENZ

“On Saturday evenings, during the seven years the trans and war activist Chelsea Manning spent in prison following the leak of classified U.S. military documents exposing torture during the ‘war’ in Iraq and Afghanistan, she would find temporary relief listening to radio programmes of dance music she liked: “Music is how I always survived.” Her words form the keynote of Pauline Boudry / Renate Lorenz’s exhibition at the Istituto Svizzero Rome, curated by Lucrezia Calabrò Visconti .”

The first solo show in Italy by Pauline Boudry and Renate Lorenz unfolds across six rooms at Istituto Svizzero Rome as an exploded score of audiovisual installations and totemic sculptural pieces featuring dancefloor cutouts, wigs, microphones, trinkets and bars.

A review by Vittoria de Franchis .totale

Read the full text online at www.pw-magazine.com 🔗 link in bio

Photos by Annik Wetter

14/11/2025

EWA DZIARNOWSKA: DANCES BUILT FROM SENSATION

Ewa Dziarnowska’s performance, “This resting, patience”, first shown at Sophiensaele’s Tanztage 2024, stretches tension between spectacle and relation; the gaze that consumes and the encounter that transforms. Over the course of three hours, dancing becomes tactile and visual, private and shared. Drawn into states of urgency and empathy, one might feel less a spectator than a participant in a field of attention. The body emerges as a source of knowledge and experience, and dancing as an activity and an environment.

In this conversation, dancer, choreographer and writer Alice Heyward , and Ewa Dziarnowska reflect on how this work unsettles objectification, cultivates intimacy, and tests the contracts between dancers and audiences across different contexts. They speak of dance as a lover, a teacher, a game without a goal: an embodied practice of transformation that insists on relation over representation.

Read the interview now online at www.pw-magazine.com 🔗 link in bio.

Photos by Shauna Summers

10/11/2025

By Association #1 is the first of a three part column on collaboration, proximity, and kinship in contemporary art written by Michelangelo Miccolis .

Read the full column online at www.pw-magazine.com 🔗 link in bio.

Photo credits: „The Bug“ by Dora Garcia and others at Centro Cultural Conde Duque, Madrid, 2022. Photo by Estudio Perplejo, Elamor 2

07/11/2025

JEFTA VAN DINTHER - BETWEEN FORM AND TRANSCENDENCE
In Jefta van Dinther’s choreographic practice, the boundary between self and other softens; movement becomes a kind of prayer, a negotiation between surrender and control. His works trace this tension—gestures carrying both care and risk, both longing and restraint. Perhaps transcendence begins there, not as escape, but as a form of staying: staying within the body, within uncertainty, within the insatiable desire to connect.

On the occasion of his retrospective „A Q***r Divine Dissatisfaction“ at HAU Hebbel am Ufer (12–23 Nov, 2025), van Dinther speaks with Jette Büchsenschütz about the affective and philosophical undercurrents of his choreographic practice. Tracing a line from early works like „Kneeding“ to later pieces such as „Unearth and Mercury Rising“, they consider how ritual and repetition, form and surrender, open relational spaces that hold both hope and irresolution—where dance becomes a realm in which tenderness and rupture coexist.

Read the interview online at www.pw-magazine.com 🔗 link in bio

Photos by Szymon Stępniak

06/11/2025

MACHINE FEMMES – “Nights Out” by Anna Franceschini at Kunstverein Gartenhaus
A Review by Caterina Avataneo

From early 20th-century storefront windows to hyper-capitalistic objectification strategies, Anna Franceschini’s practice has long explored how the female body, associated with desire, is framed and alluded to, especially through mechanisms of display and technological mediation. In her exhibition at KUNSTVEREIN GARTENHAUS .gartenhaus curated by Attilia Fattori Franchini and Ilaria Gianni , three dancing sculptures perform in a nightclub, where the structure of consumeristic desire is both re-enacted and re-choreographed.

Read the full review now online at www.pw-magazine.com 🔗 link in bio

Images: Anna Franceschini - NIGHTS OUT, 2025. Photo by kunst-dokumentation.com

02/11/2025

🕯️Impressions of PW LIVE II with Adam Linder, Celeste Burlina and Lukas Kaufmann

On 18 Oct 2025, PW-Magazine presented „Mothering The Tongue“, a performance by Adam Linder in THE HALL of PART International Art Residency Austria in the second district of Vienna. The evening was accompanied by additional contributions, a flag contributed by scenographer Celeste Burlina and sculptures by the visual artist Lukas Kaufmann .

Photos by Marcella Ruiz Cruz
The event was funded by the Cultural Department of the City of Vienna and with the support of the Federal Ministry of Housing, Arts, Culture, Media and Sport of Austria.

Adam Linder will be a guest of PART in 2026 as an artist-in-residence.

29/10/2025

Theatre of Loyalty: Why Jan Fabre Still Gets a Stage
Essay by Ilse Ghekiere

„Every now and then, I receive an email from someone who is shocked, upset, even outraged, after hearing that Jan Fabre is still given a significant platform in a place, institution or city where they live or work. How is that possible? they ask me. What happened since the Open Letter of 2018, in which Jan Fabre was accused of sexual harassment? Wasn’t that letter a turning point in the conversation around in dance? Wasn’t he convicted?“

Read the full essay online at www.pw-magazine.com 🔗 link in bio

Collage by Elsa B. Mason

28/10/2025

📜 Dear readers,
We have some welcoming words for you.

An editorial letter by our editorial team. Read it now online at www.pw-magazine.com - link in bio.

27/10/2025

STINA FORS: CHAOS WELCOME 🎪 Stina Fors is a Vienna-based choreographer and musician, a drummer and vocalist whose work channels anarchist energy, improvisation, and theatricality. Her performances are chaotic, humorous, and deeply reflective. At the Luxembourg Pavilion during the Venice Biennale 2024, curator Joel Valabrega invited Stina to explore, improvise, and even fail, allowing the pavilion to become a space for ongoing work, a laboratory where sound could be created, tested, and shared rather than simply showcased. Stina and Joel reflect on this collaboration and how it paved the way for her latest work, Spöka. They explore Stina’s working approach, her irreverent humour, and the exhilaration of making work within highly charged institutional contexts.

Read the full interview now online at www.pw-magazine.com 🔗 link in bio

Portraits by Neven Allgeier
Slide 4: Stina Fors at Luxembourg Pavilion at the 60th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia. Photo by Riccardo Banfi

17/10/2025

Adam Linder: Mothering The Tongue is a lecture-performance where Linder dances through a rumination on the practice of “free form” and the layers of dance experience that rise to the surface in real time. Linder’s text weaves theoretical, cultural and personal ingredients that contribute to “writing in real-time”, which he then physically responds to, propelled by a variety of music from Bach to Sinéad O’Connor. Contrary to his vibrantly staged works for the theatre and the exhibition space, Mothering The Tongue is a stripped-down scenario, an invitation into a mindset that can produce electric possibilities for spontaneous embodiment.

PW-LIVE: Adam Linder
18.10.25
19:30-20:30 – Performance / afterwards drinks until 22:00
PART International Art Residency Austria
Meiereistraße 3 & 16,
1020 Vienna, Austria
Limited capacity, please RSVP: [email protected]

12/10/2025

PW-LIVE: ADAM LINDER 🕯
PW-Magazine continues the series of gatherings that assemble artists, collaborators and audiences, familiar and new faces, to share practices, ways of thinking, and time together. We are happy to be joined by following artists:

Adam Linder’s choreographies explore dance, animality, technique, and desire across theatre and exhibition spaces. Blending classical, digital, formal, and absurd elements, his work resists hierarchy and highlights dance’s cultural value.

Lukas Kaufmann lives and works in Vienna. His work has been shown at Kunsthalle Wien, Zina Gallery, and MUSEION, among others. In 2018, he realized OT, a permanent public art project in Vienna.

Celeste Burlina is an artist, scenographer, and industrial designer based in Berlin. She creates site-specific installations for institutions like Palais de Tokyo, Hammer Museum, and Hamburger Bahnhof, and co-runs the design duo Burlina Morshed.

18.10.25
19:30-20:30 – Performance / afterwards drinks until 22:00
PART International Art Residency Austria
Meiereistraße 3 & 16,
1020 Vienna, Austria

Limited capacity, please RSVP: [email protected]

Photos
1. Adam Linder, Mothering The Tongue, 2025, TONO Festival, Museo Anahuacalli, Mexico City, ©Paulo García and Brenda Jauregui
2. Lukas Kaufmann, Photo by Lisa Edi
2. Celeste Burlina, Photo by the artist

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