Dance Vocal Reading
Th 14/01/2027
19.00

Winter-Werkschau

Festspielhaus-Communities
Großer Saal

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From Tu 05/05/2026 09.00
Photo from the 2025 Winter Festival (Winter-Werkschau) 2025, featuring one of the dance groups from the Festspielhaus St. Pölten, dressed in colourful costumes and striking a group pose on a black stage.
© Inés Bacher

Description

200 people on stage, a passionate audience and an unstoppable energy filling the auditorium: at the Winter-Werkschau (‘Winter-Showcase’), we celebrate the Festspielhaus and the community that is growing there.

Dance and music enthusiasts regularly meet on our rehearsal stages in five different communities. Under professional guidance, they sing, dance or write – and in doing so, they jointly develop powerful, expressive images which they weave together into coherent choreographies, texts and musical pieces.

At the Winter-Showcase, the participants present what they have worked on over the past year and capture together what moves them. They don’t just write it down, but also embody it through choreography. Let’s support one another! Vocally, in the line while dancing, in the embrace during the pas de deux, or in our weekly gatherings.

CAST & CREDITS

Community participants

Christina Ebner, Katharina Holzweber alle tanzen direction, Monica Delgadillo Aguilar Atelier direction, Flora Königsberger, Gerald Huber-Weiderbauer WÖD CHOR PLUS direction, Rainer Leithner, Christoph Richter musical accompaniment, Sara Schausberger, Veronika Krenn Festspielhaus reporters direction

Weitere Termine

A performance photo of the choreography ‘SWAY’ by Medhi Walerski. It shows two dancers from Ballet BC, dressed in black trousers and white shirts, against a black stage backdrop, performing a sweeping dance move, illuminated by yellow stage lighting.
Tanz, Ballett & Circus Wahlabo Dance Triple Bill

AUSTRIAN PREMIERE

Großer Saal

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From Tu 05/05/2026 09.00
Dancers, dressed in black, on a striking blue stage; one of them wearing only black underpants, shown in a leaping pose, next to him a performer in a black long-sleeved shirt and black skirt, holding a tambourine.
Tanz, Ballett & Circus Wahlabo Dance Performance Live music

AUSTRIAN-PREMIERE
FESTSPIELHAUS-CO PRODUCTION

Bühne

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From Tu 05/05/2026 09.00
A performance photograph of Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker’s 1995 choreography “Schönberg”, in which the choreographer drew inspiration from Arnold Schönberg’s “Verklärte Nacht”. The photograph shows dancers from Opera Ballet Vlaanderen performing a dynamic group choreography against a backdrop that suggests a forest of birch trees.
Tanz, Ballett & Circus Wahlabo Dance Triple Bill

AUSTRIAN-PREMIERE

Großer Saal

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From Tu 05/05/2026 09.00
A performance photo of ‘Sadeh21’, choreographed by Ohad Naharin. It shows dancers from the Batsheva Dance Company performing dance steps together against a blue stage backdrop.A performance photo of ‘Sadeh21’, choreographed by Ohad Naharin. It shows dancers from the Batsheva Dance Company performing dance steps together against a blue stage backdrop.v
Tanz, Ballett & Circus Wahlabo Dance Gaga
Großer Saal

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From Tu 05/05/2026 09.00
A photo shows journalist and ORF presenter Armin Wolf and political scientist Peter Filzmaier – both of whom are also well-known through ORF – standing back-to-back in front of a black backdrop, both wearing light blue shirts and ties, and smiling sideways at the camera.
Wahlabo Infotainment

Bühne im Hof at Festspielhaus

Großer Saal

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From Tu 05/05/2026 09.00
Performance photo from the dance piece “Kaléidoscope,” choreographed by Mourad Merzouki and performed by Compagnie Käfig. Two dancers in flowing dark green dresses with long, swaying fringes are performing pirouettes, whilst in front of them two dancers, also dressed in grey and dark green, are performing an acrobatic floor routine in synchronisation.
Tanz, Ballett & Circus Wahlabo Dance Circus Urban

AUSTRIAN-PREMIERE
Recommended for ages 10 and over

Großer Saal

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From Tu 05/05/2026 09.00
Performance photo from the dance piece “Kaléidoscope,” choreographed by Mourad Merzouki and performed by Compagnie Käfig. Two dancers in flowing dark green dresses with long, swaying fringes are performing pirouettes, whilst in front of them two dancers, also dressed in grey and dark green, are performing an acrobatic floor routine in synchronisation.
Tanz, Ballett & Circus Wahlabo Dance Circus Urban

AUSTRIAN-PREMIERE
Recommended for ages 10 and over

Großer Saal

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From Tu 05/05/2026 09.00
Performance photo from ‘Trailer Park’, choreographed by Moritz Ostruschnjak and performed by tanz mainz. The dancers are performing a floor-based movement, holding hands and wearing oversized sports jerseys.
Tanz, Ballett & Circus Wahlabo Dance Urban

AUSTRIAN-PREMIERE
Recommended for ages 14 and over

Großer Saal

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From Tu 05/05/2026 09.00
Photo of the collective ‘(LA)HORDE’. The three artists are standing in a rehearsal room; behind them, a light grey curtain and a large mirror can be seen.
Tanz, Ballett & Circus Wahlabo Dance Urban

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FESTSPIELHAUS CO-PRODUCTION

Recommended for ages 14 and over

Großer Saal

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From Tu 05/05/2026 09.00
Stage photo from ‘All Ears’, a performance from the Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan by choreographer Cheng Tsung-lung. The dancers, dressed in black, are arranged in a circle, holding hands and jumping.
Tanz, Ballett & Circus Wahlabo Dance

AUSTRIAN PREMIERE

Großer Saal

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From Tu 05/05/2026 09.00
Performance photo from ‘Trailer Park’, choreographed by Moritz Ostruschnjak and performed by tanz mainz. The dancers are performing a floor-based movement, holding hands and wearing oversized sports jerseys.
Tanz, Ballett & Circus Wahlabo Dance Urban

AUSTRIAN-PREMIERE
Recommended for ages 14 and over

Großer Saal

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From Tu 05/05/2026 09.00
Two dancers perform ‘Mémoires d’Oubliettes’, a choreography by Jirí Kylián. A dancer in a white costume stands in the foreground on one leg, the other bent in front of him, his arms raised to the sides, his arm muscles tightly tensed. Behind him is another person, also in a white costume, clinging to his back, both legs raised and bent at the knees.
Tanz, Ballett & Circus Wahlabo Dance Triple Bill

AUSTRIAN-PREMIERE

Großer Saal

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From Tu 05/05/2026 09.00
Two dancers perform ‘Mémoires d’Oubliettes’, a choreography by Jirí Kylián. A dancer in a white costume stands in the foreground on one leg, the other bent in front of him, his arms raised to the sides, his arm muscles tightly tensed. Behind him is another person, also in a white costume, clinging to his back, both legs raised and bent at the knees.
Tanz, Ballett & Circus Wahlabo Dance Triple Bill

AUSTRIAN-PREMIERE

Großer Saal

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From Tu 05/05/2026 09.00
Photograph of Antony Gormley's installation ‘Resting Place II’ (2024), consisting of stacked terracotta stone blocks in a light grey gallery/museum space.
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FESTSPIELHAUS CO-PRODUCTION

Großer Saal

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From Tu 05/05/2026 09.00
The performers from Collectif Travers & Le Quator Debussy stand close together on a dark stage, all holding sticks aloft with both hands.
Tanz, Ballett & Circus Wahlabo Dance Family Circus Live music

AUSTRIA-PREMIERE
Recommended from the age of 7

Großer Saal

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From Tu 05/05/2026 09.00
Two dancers from the Compagnie Käfig perform in costumes designed to make them look older in the piece ‘Beauséjour’, both leaning back sharply to arch their backs, gazing upwards.
Tanz, Ballett & Circus Wahlabo Dance Circus

AUSTRIA-PREMIERE

Großer Saal

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From Tu 05/05/2026 09.00
Two dancers from the Compagnie Käfig perform in costumes designed to make them look older in the piece ‘Beauséjour’, both leaning back sharply to arch their backs, gazing upwards.
Tanz, Ballett & Circus Wahlabo Dance Circus

AUSTRIAN PREMIERE

Großer Saal

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