Women.Dance.Films
21.07
The screening will be followed by a discussion with the filmmaker.
WOMEN (AT) – 2025, 17:54’
Woman of Air (AT) – 2025, 11:42’
Women of Water (AT) – 2025, 9:28’
Free entrance
21.07 – 20:00 | Center of Mediterranean Architecture
As a dancer, choreographer and director of dance theatre pieces, Salzburg-based choreographer and director Editta Braun enjoys international renown with her editta braun company. Her LUVOSmove® dance technique and aesthetic, which she has been continuously developing since 1986, is unique and nothing short of revolutionary. It is a specifically female form of musical body illusion theatre that requires a specially trained ensemble of dancers.
For several years now, Editta Braun has also been making a name for herself with highly acclaimed, extraordinary and award-winning dance films, for which she is responsible not only for the choreography, but also for the direction and editing. They are created in close collaboration with photographer Menie Weissbacher, who is responsible for camera, co-direction and post-production, and composer Thierry Zaboitzeff, who composes the music for all her films.
In a new series of short films, Editta Braun now explicitly focuses on women: WOMEN, Women of Water and Woman of Air (all 2025) focus on the female perspective on our world. Dancers between the ages of 29 and 86 appear on screen. Their joys and sorrows, their limitations and their freedom are as diverse as those of all women, because: ‘One woman is many women.’
A global feminist dance manifesto, a sensitive approach to the biography of a former prima ballerina and a breathtaking female creation myth from a completely new perspective: each of the three films has its own theme, its own aesthetic and its own unique rhythm. They open up spaces for association, fascinate with breathtaking perspectives and cuts, and move with masterfully coordinated images and sounds.
The consistently feminist and decidedly multicultural perspective of Editta Braun’s art is a clear political statement and thus increasingly important in a world that remains patriarchal and is becoming increasingly reactionary again. Between dystopia and utopia – three powerful films by and with strong women.
WOMEN
Director, choreography, screenplay, editing: Editta Braun
Camera, post-production, set design, special effects: Menie Weissbacher
Composition, audio post-production: Thierry Zaboitzeff
Cast: Germaine Acogny, Weng Teng Choi-Buttinger, Nikola Majtanova, Maja Mirek, Jerca Rožnik Novak, and many more.
“During our worldwide tours from Cairo to Siberia, I have repeatedly felt this strong complicity and mutual understanding when meeting women there, even though we do not speak the same language. This gives rise to incredible strength. One woman is many women. We can break through the glass wall behind which many women are imprisoned and against which we women are fighting. We just have to do it together.”
(Editta Braun)
Woman of Air
Director, editing: Editta Braun
Camera, post-production: Menie Weissbacher
Composition: Thierry Zaboitzeff
Starring: Micheline Faure
„Being a dancer is more than just a profession. It is a calling, a physical state, a way of life. Many dancers sacrifice their desire to have a family for this dream. Micheline Faure’s career as a dancer underwent a radical change with the birth of her first child. She remained a dancer, taught and found new forms of expression. In her delicate body and free spirit, she still retains the floating lightness of the prima ballerina she once was.”
(Editta Braun)
Women of Water
Direction, choreography, editing: Editta Braun
Post-production, set design: Menie Weissbacher
Composition: Thierry Zaboitzeff
Cast: Weng Teng Choi-Buttinger, Nikola Majtanova, Jerca Rožnik Novak
Premiere on 15 August at the Mexico City Videodance Festival
Water is life. Women give life. The beginning quotes Michelangelo’s narrative of the male creation story, the female bodies in foetal positions remind us that the female body gives life, the rush of water recalls the water that breaks at birth, breaking through. Finally, they are completely at one with themselves, completely together, and together they form the circle of life, which knows no end. A female creation myth.
21 July | 20:00
— Free entrance —
