claudia bosse / theatercombinat

october 2021-october 2025 public performance school

performance:
BETON WUNDER in the framework of PPS extended in cooperation with the vienna architecture summer school

theatercombinat opens the public performance school from october 2021-october 2025 for amateurs and professionals aged 15 to 90 years and teaches basic methods of artistic work with a practice-based curriculum by claudia bosse.

public performance school is an environment for learning performative practice, where experimentation with different forms of knowledge and physical practice are the main focus.
public performance school opens up space for understanding and communicating different perspectives on the present, on bodily experiences of different generations. using performance techniques, trainings or scores, participants explore spaces, sounds, texts, and their bodies - as a choral organism in landscapes or in different places.
public performance school opens up an intergenerational space for interested amateurs as well as artists, activists and creates the possibility to work together in an ensemble with people of different experiences. participants aged between 15 and 90 years learn performative techniques together, challenge and encourage each other through mutual empowerment.
public performance school tests concrete utopias in shared spaces, communal structures, the perception of one's own body, choreographic modules, the targeted work with breath and voice in settings between choreography, performance, theater and urban intervention.
public performance school enables a continuous, binding coming together of a community over the duration of 4 years (on 6 weekends each), as well as in-depth rehearsals in times of elaboration of emerging performances.
public performance school promotes conscious awareness of our environment and society with its diverse participants, as well as non-human beings.

public performance school is initiated and directed by the artist/ choreographer claudia bosse and is extended by participating international artists and experts of the emerging works within the 4 year project ORGAN/ismus-poetics of relations.

24 modules in a period of 4 years, with performative experiments and choral constellations under the artistic direction of claudia bosse. movement, sound, text and experiences in structures of learning together. an engagement in the risk of the relation in and with different indoor and outdoor spaces, as well as diverse landscapes. beyond the work with the individual body, the continuity of the public performance school creates a basis for dealing with a collective body of a choral organism. the experiences and knowledge of the individuals in combination with artistic techniques open up a new social space of possibilities. the intergenerational ensemble becomes part of the general intellect of theatercombinat and at the same time an experimental space of different bodies and experiences.

foto: markus gradwohl

foto: markus gradwohl

concept/ artistic direction: claudia bosse; participants of the public performance school: elisabeth austaller, beate maria friedl, maria harrison, maria ketscher, veronika kritzer, teresa kurzbauer, therese leick, anna major, katarina markova, hannah resatz, gerlinde riegler, ines rössl, salphinah savin, mariella schwarten, constance steiniger, johanna tatzgern, leticia traxler, ilse urbanek, marlene wagner, silvia weitlaner, ziva vavpotic, christa zuna-kratky; production: dagmar tröstler

2022/2023: in cooperation with kulturhaus brotfabrik
2024: in cooperation with belvedere 21

PPS dates 2024
09./10. march
20./21. april
29./30. june
01.-08. september (PPS_extended)
02./03. november
14./15. december

modules of the public performance school:
module 1 breath and voice
module 2 body and space
module 3 body and body
module 4 body and language
module 5 body and/as organism
module 6 poetic assemblages as/with landscapes

PPS termine 2024
09./10. march
20./21. april
29./30. june
01.-08. september (PPS_extended)
02./03. november
14./15. december

BETON WUNDER
performance with the participants of the PUBLIC PERFORMANCE SCHOOL extended

2. september 2023, 19:00
old WU vienna
augasse 2-6, 1090 vienna
in cooperation with the vienna architecture summer school

with BETON WUNDER, the artist and choreographer claudia Bosse, together with the participants of PPS extended, develops a performance of various formations and structures on the concrete surfaces of the former university of economics.

Performative organisms emerge among the bodies involved, the architectural structure, and the pioneer plants, which find their way through the sealed ground.
The performance is a walkable collective practice as an invocation of "other" spaces followed by a concert with live electronics by günther auer. strong>

credits
conzept/ choreography: claudia bosse; performance/ choreography: anja major, anna demmelbauer, beate maria friedl, constance steiniger, elisabeth austaller, gerlinde riegler, ines rössl, ines woschitz, judith rücker, katarina markova, marcel von brasche, maria harrison, maria ketscher, mariella schwarten, marlene wagner, merlina wojta, natascha bonosevich, rica salchinger, sarah hollweger, silvia weitlaner, teresa kurzbauer, therese leick, veronika kritzer, ziva vavpotic.

theatercombinat is funded by the city of vienna culture within the framework of concept funding 2022-2025.

BETON WUNDER - a performance by claudia bosse, photo: markus gradwohl. please click for a slideshow!

foto: claudia bosse