Liquid Loft


Liquid Loft is an internationally active dance company based in Vienna, Austria. It was jointly founded in 2005 by the choreographer Chris Haring, the dancer Stephanie Cumming, the musician Andreas Berger and the dramaturge.

Performances

Liquid Loft create stage performances and installations at the intersection of contemporary dance and visual arts, with the sound environment and musical composition playing an integral part of the creative development. In 2007 Liquid Loft was awarded the Golden Lion for “Best Performance” for the piece Posing Project B – The Art of Seduction at the Biennale di Venezia. Science Fiction and the reception of cyborg theory count as the major sources of inspiration for their work. In their performances Liquid Loft reflect, among other things, on the change in our perception through visual media and the everyday use of technology.

Choreographies

Fremdkörper, 2003Diese Körper, diese Spielverderber, 2004Legal Errorist, 2004My Private Bodyshop, 2005Kind of Heroes, 2005Running Sushi, 2006Posing Project A – The Art of Wow, 2007Posing Project B – The Art of Seduction, 2007Posing Project C – The Art of Garfunkel, 2008Wintersonne, 2008The China Project & Lovely Liquid Lounge, 2009 Sacre – The Rite Thing, 2010 Talking Head, 2010WELLNESS , 2011Mush:Room , 2012Deep Dish , 2012Shiny, shiny… , 2014False Colored Eyes , 2015Candy’s Camouflage , 2016Foreign Tongues , 2017Church of Ignorance , 2018Babylon , 2018Models of Reality, 2019Stand-Alones , 2019Blue Moon, You Saw..., 2020Stranger Than Paradise, 2021Modern Chimeras, 2022

Collaborations

Liquid Loft’s oeuvre also includes choreographies for Dialogue Dance Kostroma, RU, Phace Ensemble for contemporary music, Vienna & Arturo Fuentes, Staatstheater Kassel, Ballet Moskau, Balletto di Roma, TANZ LINZ. Collaborations on various pieces, for example with visual artists such as Erwin Wurm, Aldo Giannotti and Günter Brus. In 2022, Liquid Loft and Odeon Theater jointly initiated the format Living Positions. It brings back to the stage successful productions from previous years.

Installations

Together with visual artist Michel Blazy location-specific installations were created for the series The Perfect Garden, among others at Hof Dietrichsruh, Salzburg and at the Palmenhaus at Vienna’s Burggarten. The installation Posing Project C – The Art of Garfunkel was shown at Künstlerhaus Vienna.

Film

There are four short films and one feature length movie, based on Liquid Loft pieces, created in cooperation with filmmaker Mara Mattuschka: Legal Errorist, Part Time Heroes, Running Sushi, Burning Palace and Perfect Garden.

Awards

  • 2004 Award for best performance at the Biennale de la Dance Lyon, with “Fremdkoerper”
  • 2010 outstanding artist award – Performing Arts, Austrian Federal Ministry for Education, Arts and Culture, for Chris Haring.

Literature

  • Andrea Amort, Mimi Wunderer-Gosch : Österreich tanzt. Geschichte und Gegenwart. Böhlau-Verlag, Wien 2001,.
  • Kim Knowles: Film, Performance, and the Spaces Between: The Collaborative Works of Mara Mattuschka and Chris Haring. In: Cinema Journal, vol. 57, No. 2, Winter 2018, p. 89–112.
  • Elena Basteri et al.: REHEARSING COLLECTIVITY – Choreography Beyond Dance. Argobooks, Berlin 2012,.
  • Angelika Kreitner: Der Begriff der Gemeinschaft im Postdramatischen Theater. Diplomarbeit, Universität Wien, Wien 2010.
  • Christina Dettelbacher: Produktionsbedingungen der Freien Zeitgenössischen Tanzszene im Wien der Gegenwart. Magisterarbeit, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, München 2013.
  • Thomas Edlinger et al.: Shiny Shiny. Verlag für Moderne Kunst, Wien 2020,.