brut Wien is kicking off winter 2025/26 with a program that gets under your skin. "Signs of Justice" is the overarching theme - and justice is not simply talked about here, it is embodied, negotiated and staged performatively. The productions, which can be seen on the theater's stages from December to February, demonstrate how political and poetic contemporary dance and performance can be at the same time.

Reforest
Reforest, an atmospherically dense collaboration between artist Adam Man, cellist Judith Hamann and Butoh dancer Michiyasu Furutani, kicks things off. The starting point is a forest that has been scarred by climate change - documented over months, observed, read almost like an injured body. Using text, video, sound, dance and found objects, brut nordwest creates a stage that feels like a growing biotope: an ecological memorial and at the same time an invitation to understand the fragility of our environment through our bodies.
December 11 to 13, 2025

An Evening with
Alex Franz Zehetbauer offers a special reunion on December 9 at the Breitenseer Lichtspiele. An Evening with returns for one last evening - a concert performance between surreal humor, poetic intimacy and wonderfully irritating melodies that resonate for a long time.
December 9, 2025

FLASHMOB
In January, another central question arises between all these conflicts: What does community look like today? Stefanie Sourial is reviving the FLASHMOB phenomenon in January 2026 - as a collective act between resistance and hedonistic joy, as an opportunity to explore political energy and cohesion through dance. On January 15 with aperitivo, on January 17 with a tactile tour for blind and visually impaired audiences.
January 14 to 17, 2026

Marta Navarida's Once Upon a Time in the Flames, Our Firebird Ballet © Clara Wildberger

In Bed with Angela & Claire
The workshop In Bed with Angela & Claire by Angela Alves and Claire Lefèvre is also dedicated to togetherness. Here, resting - an often underestimated, almost subversive act in the art world - is negotiated as a resistant practice.
With all these works, brut Wien shows that today not only words but also bodies can become signals of justice. This winter belongs to those who dance, speak and resist - and to those who are prepared to watch.
January 16 - 17, 2026

Once Upon a Time in the Flames
Marta Navaridas works quite differently, but no less powerfully, in Once Upon a Time in the Flames: Our Firebird Ballet. Together with Veza Fernández, Stina Fors, Lau Lukkarila, Maja Osojnik and Denise Palmieri, she reinvents Stravinsky's "Firebird" - as a punk ritual of self-empowerment. In January 2026, the classic becomes a political liberation ballet in which hierarchies, power structures in the dance industry and the question of artistic autonomy become the urgency of the moment. Where the original tells fairy tales, Navarida's version mutates into an outcry: loud, playful and uncompromisingly solidary.
January 23 to 28, 2026

JUSTITIA! Identity Cases
Things get even more directly political in February: in the revival of JUSTITIA! Identity Cases, Gin Müller, Edwarda Gurrola, Mariama Nzinga Diallo and Sandra Selimović examine how identity issues are negotiated in the courtroom, in the theater and on social media. Fast-paced, clever and surprisingly humorous, the performance shows why justice always remains a process of negotiation - and why identity politics can be fun.
February 5 to 9, 2026

No Place Like Home
In February 2026, Malika Fankha and Oneka von Schrader open up one of the most intimate and painful spaces of domestic life in No Place Like Home. The work breaks the silence about sexualized violence in the family and reveals layer by layer how manipulation, shame and power work - and how trust can be rebuilt after such experiences. The subsequent talk on February 19 will delve deeper into the question of safety and self-determination.
February 18 to 21, 2026
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