“We laugh – not at them, but with them. It is a humor that springs from precision, from experience, from a deep understanding of form...It is hard not to read this as a reflection on being human and on life itself.” — Azra Halilović, Multiplié Festival, Trondheim, 2026

For 35 years, choreographer Jonathan Burrows and composer Matteo Fargion have investigated the delicate boundary between what we see and what we hear, producing a series of spectacular miniatures that confound expectations of what a dance performance might be. They describe their work as handmade and human-scale, poised somewhere between dance, music, performance art, and comedy.

Tanzquartier Wien offers a rare opportunity to see a retrospective of their live work over three evenings, from the seminal Both Sitting Duet (2002), performed more than 500 times worldwide, to their most recent collaboration The Unison Piece (2025).

With the support of Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Vienna