BOOM TSCHAK: Early Works

11/11 & 18/11/2026, 7:30 pm, TQW Studios
Early Works
und (2007), Impatiens walleriana (2007), sackl du printemps (Film, 2007) und Uhlich (2011)

17/11/2026, 7:30 pm, Tanzquartier Wien, Halle G
GAP (2025)

Early Works brings together, in a single evening, und (2007), Impatiens walleriana (2007), the film sackl du printemps (2007), and Uhlich (2011) – rarely shown works from the early years of Doris Uhlich’s artistic practice. The focus is on people whose bodies and life stories serve as the starting point for choreographic research. Even in these early pieces, questions of age, memory, social visibility, and physical diversity – themes that run through Uhlich’s entire body of work – already come to the fore. Across various formats and media, themes emerge that continue to shape Uhlich’s work to this day.

In 2025, Uhlich explicitly revisited this thread when she worked with the bodily biographies of formerly homeless people in the piece GAP.

Housing is a basic human need, but it is becoming increasingly difficult for many people to find affordable living space. In GAP, Doris Uhlich works with formerly homeless people. The stage becomes a space where the performers expatiate, both physically and linguistically. Their biographies and bodies are archives of personal histories and traces of lives – more than subjective narratives; they make the history of the present come alive. The performance addresses precarity and disappearance, e.g. by designing temporary spaces and landscapes with transparent, inflatable objects reminiscent of elementary forms of construction.

© sackl du printemps (2007), Foto: Andrea Salzmann

Credits

Early Works, 2026, TQW Studios

Choreography Doris Uhlich
Dramaturgical collaboration Adam Czirak, Nikolaus Selimov
Performance und Irene Irrgeher, Susanna Peterka, Werner Vockenhuber, Brigitte Weinberger
Performance Impatiens walleriana Alena Binder, Doris Uhlich
Performance Uhlich Gertraud Uhlich
Light, sound Gerald Pappenberger
Production Helen Parkes
Company management Margot Wehinger
Communication, press Franziska Heubacher
International distribution Giulia Traversi
Co-production Tanzquartier Wien
Supported by Stadt Wien Kultur (MA 7)

und, world premiere in 2007, imagetanz Festival / dietheater Künstlerhaus Wien

Concept, choreography Doris Uhlich
Dramaturgy Andrea Salzmann
Performance Hans Breitschopf, Peter Fenz, Uschi Halmágyi, Christa Himmel-Schwarzmüller, Pauline Haslinger, Frédéric Nedoma-Ohnhäuser†, Susanna Peterka, Otto Schödl†, Efie Sus†, Ilse Urbanek, Werner Vockenhuber, Pia Voldet
Co-production imagetanz and insert (Theaterverein)
Supported by the Municipal Department of Cultural Affairs, Vienna

Impatiens walleriana, world premiere in 2007, Tanzquartier Wien, as part of Stückwerk

Idea Doris Uhlich
Realised by Doris Uhlich, Andrea Salzmann, Klaus Ruhnau
Performance Klaus Ruhnau, Doris Uhlich
Supported by the Municipal Department of Cultural Affairs, Vienna

sackl du printemps, world premiere in 2007, Tanzquartier Wien
A film by Doris Uhlich and Andrea Salzmann (2007)

Uhlich, world premiere in 2011, Wiener Festwochen

Choreography Doris Uhlich
Performance Gertraud Uhlich
Project collaboration Andrea Salzmann, Yoshie Maruoka, Armin Anders, Judith Staudinger
Light Monika Gruber
Production Christine Sbaschnigg
Co-Production Wiener Festwochen and insert (Theaterverein)
Supported by the Municipal Department of Cultural Affairs, Vienna

GAP, world premiere in 2025, Tanzquartier Wien

Concept, choreography Doris Uhlich
By and with Jennifer, Regina Amer, Radoslav Balać, Liza Dimitrijevic, Lyubov-Anna Leitner, Gerhard Petrasek
Voice Martin Klinger
Conceptual collaboration, Live sounds, DJ Boris Kopeinig
Dramaturgical collaboration Nikolaus Selimov
Feeback Yoshie Maruoka
Light, technical realisation Gerald Pappenberger
Air objects schulteswien
Costume Sophie Tautorus
Production Helen Parkes
Company Management, production Margot Wehinger
Communication, press Franziska Heubacher
International distribution Giulia Traversi
Co-production insert Tanz und Performance GmbH, Tanzquartier Wien and Residenz Schauspiel Leipzig
Supported by the Municipal Department of Cultural Affairs, Vienna, and the Austrian Federal Ministry of Housing, Art, Culture, Media, and Sport (BMWKMS)

The idea for the performance GAP emerged following the educational workshop and performance Halle G wie Gudrun (March 2024, TQW), initiated by Theresa Rauter (TQW Education & Outreach).

BOOM TSCHAK: Early Works

Credits

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sackl du printemps2007

Impatiens walleriana2007

und2007

Uhlich2011

sackl du printemps
2007

Impatiens walleriana
2007

und
2007

Uhlich
2011