Flóra Boros: violet glace

In violet glace the ace stands for asexual. Flóra Boros choreographs a space that is intentionally ambiguous — a room where sensuality does not demand explanation or erotic readability. This solo unfolds like a slow-burn romance and  invites the audience to experience a gaze that lingers without devouring. 

Drawing inspiration from flashy 90’s and 00’s pop music videos, sultry dance routines emerge, only to be stripped down and recontextualized, allowing the body to move, sweat, and exist without being an object of desire. Flóra desexualizes choreographies one hair flip at a time, eroding lustful gestures through repetition. Gently teasing, she perpetually challenges the viewers’ perspective: the ace gaze becomes a filter, a mirror, and a queer mode of looking back.

Musician Rozi Mákó whispers electronic soundscapes into being: she sighs glossy synths and breathes dancey beats, from still  gasps to liberated outbursts. Meanwhile, the body shimmers, edges blur and hierarchies of sight dissolve under Yasemin Duru’s spotlights. Bathed in fifty shades of purple-grey and dripping with iridescent textures, the stage, glittered by Sara Sternat, starts scintillating. Body parts, revealed and concealed by translucent fabrics, oscillate between intimacy and alienation.

Questioning how we stare, sexualize and objectify, violet glace brings asexual representation to the forefront. And the background. And all the subtly sensuous spaces in between. 

Concept, performance
Flóra Boros 

Live sound
Rozi Mákó 

Dramaturgy
Melina Papoulia 

Light design
Yasemin Duru 

Styling and stage design
Sarah Sternat 

Outside eye
Claire Lefèvre

Research partner
mirabella paidamwoyo* dziruni 

Theoretical research
Verena Herterich

Text
Kenneth Constance Loe

Project management
Marianne Huber 


Co-produced by WUK performing arts.
Funded by the Cultural Department of the City of Vienna (MA 7), Federal Ministry for Housing, Arts, Culture, Media and Sport (BMWKMS).

Supported by Im_flieger, Bears in the Park, Workshop Foundation, Seestadt Studios.

about

Flóra Boros (she/her) is an independent performing artist and choreographer based in Vienna and Budapest. Her works have been presented at venues such as Kaaistudio’s (BE), WUK (AT), Muffathalle (DE), Schwere Reiter (DE), as part of various festivals. Her first solo performance, CINDY, received the BMKÖS-Startstipendium for performing arts in 2022, as well as the ATLAS scholarship at the ImPulsTanz festival. She completed her studies at the Music and Arts University of Vienna in 2021, with her thesis awarded a scholarship from the City of Vienna. Her work has been supported by the European Union and the Goethe-Institut, workspacebrussels, Im_flieger, NunArt.

Rozi Mákó (she/her) is a composer and musician. In addition to her studies in classical and jazz piano, Rozi Mákó was constantly open to various trends in electronic music, which she later studied in the sonology department of the Royal Conservatory of The Hague in the Netherlands. Co-composer of the music for the Palme d’Or-winning short film “27” in Cannes, winner of several international awards (Festival international du film d’animation d’Annec, Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival, SoundTrack Cologne). Her live performances are slowly unfolding musical experiences, at once gently harmonic and disturbingly noisy. The sounds that emerge from Mákó’s musical structure invite the listener on a journey; a meditative immersion in constant renewal. As a composer, she creates contemporary dance and theatre pieces such as Delicate, which was performed at the 2023 Impulstanz Vienna International Dance Festival. She is currently working on his debut album, which will be released in 2025. 

Melina Papoulia (she/her) is based in Vienna. She completed her BA in Contemporary and Classical Dance at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna and is currently pursuing a Master’s degree in Art and Culture at the University of Applied Arts Vienna. As a dramaturg and performer she works within Vienna’s independent scene. Since 2022, she has been working as an assistant director and choreographer at Schauspielhaus Wien. From August 2025, she has been working there as a dramaturgy assistant.

Sarah Sternat (she/her) (b. 1988, Graz) is a multidisciplinary artist and performer living and working in Vienna and Riegersburg.
She completed an intensive contemporary dance program with Andrea Nagl in 2022/2023. Sternat studied painting, tapestry, and animation film at the University of Applied Arts Vienna, graduating in 2015 in the classes of Christian Ludwig Attersee and Judith Eisler. In 2014, she co-founded the performance collective CLUB FORTUNA alongside Xenia Lesniewski, Julia Rublow, Kurdwin Ayub, and Nana Mandl. In 2020, she held a teaching position in the sculpture department at the University of Art and Design Linz. Her works have been featured in Purple Spheres (2023) by Mirjam Soegner, at Tanzfabrik Berlin; at Kunsthaus Graz in the exhibition The Body and Territory (2023); and in MY EYES ARE GREEN CAUSE I EAT A LOT OF VEGETABLES (2023) at basement gallery, Olomouc (CZ). In 2023, she presented her first solo dance performance, Nicht mehr als alles, at Tanzhotel Vienna. In 2024, she showed collaborative works developed with Anne Juren as part of Living Positions at the Odeon Theater Vienna. Most recently, her performance I filled my belly, I felt my belly was shown at im flieger, Vienna. One of her last works was seen in Suspirame Lira by Veza Fernandez, presented in October 2024 at Tanzquartier Wien.

Yasemin Duru (they/them) is a multicultural light designer and multidisciplinary artist based in Vienna. They hold a BA in Visual Arts and Visual Communications Design from Sabancı University, Istanbul, and are currently pursuing a degree in Digital Arts at die Angewandte. Yasemin has collaborated as a light designer with institutions such as ImPulsTanz, Transart Festival, brut, TQW, Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien, Theater Odeon, and Kulturhaus Brotfabrik, among others. Their work explores the interplay of light, shadow, and reflection, intuitively translating sound, emotion, and concept into immersive atmospheres.

Claire Lefèvre (she/her) is a femme choreographer, insomniac writer, and reality TV enthusiast currently based in Vienna, Austria. She likes to think of herself as a hostess, welcoming collaborators and audience members into kitsch landscapes where politics and poetics are gently interwoven. Currently she is exploring the archetype and working methods of a performance doula, a role imagined to disinvisibilize care work in the context of performance making. Her last stage work LOIE (is a fire that cannot be extinguished) dealt with somatic archives and systematic erasures within dance history. Claire’s work with text spans from poetry to grant applications, at times flirting with performance criticism, stand-up comedy or queer feminist theory. Occasionally she works as a ghost writer, but mostly because of the spectral appeal of the job title. 

mirabella paidamwoyo* dziruni‘s (they/them) interdisciplinary artistic practice focuses on empowerment and collaborative healing processes. Inspired by everyday life experiences, de-colonial and anti-racist methods are used and elaborated to take up space in diverse public and private spaces, with non-binary, queer, Black aesthetics. Moving bodies, self-presentation and continuous energy exchange as well as painting, styling and sculpture are the main components for these complex creations, representing visible signs of change. 

Verena Herterich (she/her) lives and works as a dancer, performer and choreographer in Vienna. With a radical dedication to physicality as a strategy, she explores the unfolding of (social) spaces and the detachment from categories and attributions. She studied Contemporary Dance and Ballet (BA) at the MUK Vienna and the AHK Amsterdam and Social Design (MA) at the University of Applied Arts Vienna. Her work has been shown at Tanzquartier Wien, WUK Vienna, Dock11 Berlin and Brut Wien imagetanz (handle with care) among others. Her artistic practice has been supported by a BMKOES „Start“-scholarship of the Austrian Federal Ministry for Arts, Culture, the Civil Service and Sport (2021), the Huggy Bears Vienna Residency Program (2022) and a LifeLongBurning Research Residency and the PRÉAC seminar at ICI-CCN Montpellier-Occitanie (2024). Since the end of 2023, she is part of the artist initiative Im_flieger - Free Space und Experimental Ground for Dance, Performance und Transmedia Art. As a dancer/performer, she worked with artists such as Guy Weizman & Roni Haver (Club Guy & Roni's Poetic Disasters Club), Ingri Fiksdal, Linda Samaraweerová, Claudia Bosse, Christine Gaigg, Eva-Maria Schaller, Joanna Zabielska and since 2024 regularly with Liquid Loft/ Chris Haring. 

Kenneth Constance Loe (he/they) is an artist, writer, and performer from Singapore and currently based in Vienna, Austria. His practice revolves around material and sensorial fetishes of desire, poetics of hospitality, body memory, queer ecologies, and other tangential thoughts through a performative collocation of sculpture, video, movement, text, and olfactory objects.

Marianne Huber (she/her) completed her master’s degree in Theatre, Film and Media Studies in 2023, with a focus on queer temporality. During her studies, she worked as a directing and production assistant at Dschungel Wien, hetpaleis Antwerpen and Theater Nestroyhof Hamakom, followed by an internship in film acquisition and programming at a short film festival in Berlin. Marianne works in culture and festival production — among others for Vienna Shorts and ImPulsTanz — and as a production manager in Vienna’s independent performance and contemporary circus scene.
Her work combines organizational skill with creative thinking and feminist perspectives across the fields of dance, performance, contemporary circus and film.