Chapter 3, Page 51 - Atelier

Chapter 3, Page 51 – Atelier:Instant Composition, listening & doing

 

A 3 hour-workshop where listening becomes the starting point for making.

At the heart of Chapter 3, Page 51 is an Atelier: an interdisciplinary, openly accessible format bringing together dance, live music, and performance — and building connections between artists across disciplines and borders. Beyond a skill-building workshop, it's a platform for artistic and intercultural exchange.

Led by internationally renowned choreographer, director, teacher, and improviser Andreja Rauch Podrzavnik, with live music by musician and multidisciplinary artist Luka Uršič KALU, the workshop centers on the working method built on mutual listening and responding — in keeping with WUK's annual theme 2026. This format focusing on real-time composition in dialogue with movement and sound - opens a unique opportunity for direct exchange between the Slovenian and Viennese artistic scenes.

What to expect

The Atelier moves through three connected areas:

-Dance composition — building short movement scores and sequences, exploring vocabularies from stylized phrase work to abstract action and everyday gesture, and developing a sharper, more articulate sense of form, intention, and space.

-Instant composition — treating improvisation as real-time composition: not an endless search for new ideas, but the art of recognizing, developing, and returning to what's already there, drawing on principles of repetition, variation, and layering found across both, dance and musical traditions.

-Dance and sound in dialogue — working live with a musician to explore how movement and sound shape each other in the moment, how a non-hierarchical relationship between the two can be built, and how performers can compose together while keeping their own artistic agency intact.

Throughout the Atelier, practical exercises are paired with observation, feedback, group discussion, and short writing tasks — creating space to reflect on the compositional choices, relationships, and artistic intentions that emerge.

Who it's for

Dancers, performers, musicians, and cross-disciplinary artists — from WUK, Vienna, and beyond — with an interest in deepening their practice of dance composition, improvisation, and the relationship between movement and sound.

What you'll leave with

An expanded compositional toolkit, sharpened improvisational instincts, and a felt experience of interdisciplinary dialogue — built, above all, on the practice of listening.

If you would like to experience the approaches of the Atelier in a life-created performance by an ensemble of 5 artists coming from the fields of dance and life-music, you are warmly invited to come to see Chapter 3, Page 51 –  on Sunday, 8^th November 2026, 18.00 o’clock at Flieger/ WUK. 

Kindly supported by the City of Ljubljana - Department of Culture, WUK-Transversaler Topf 2026 and the Alsergrund District Department of Vienna.