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Clever, yes, perhaps, but we all know: Heroes are strong, heroes face challenges, no matter how big they are, without losing courage, without hesitating, without thinking. Heroes are not tailors. And certainly not tailors.

Why is the world in crisis when everyone seemingly only wants the best? We are living in the best of all possible worlds. This is what the young Candide is taught by his teacher Pangloss. And even though Candide experiences war, plagues and natural disasters, even though his home is destroyed, his beloved Cunegonde is raped and he himself escapes death by the skin of his teeth on several occasions, he remains an incorrigible optimist as he travels boldly through the Old World and the New World.

TQW DOC+ is a monthly interdisciplinary, inter-university forum for theorists on topics concerned with choreography, performance, body, art and politics at Tanzquartier Wien.

In search of an answer, we observe objects and machines and marvel at their development. "Pixelzimmer" is a humorous, playful approach to the wonders of our modern world.

The TQW Winter School is a festival and conference, experiment and discussion, located between theory and practice. This year, under the title Dance Class, it devotes three days to classism in contemporary dance and performance art.

Four robbers from Karl Moor's gang from Schiller's famous drama have broken into a villa and are waiting for their leader. How do you pass the time?

The audience joins the five unloved creatures in a space of self-irony and self-love, where one cares for the other, where everyone is valuable and right and allowed to participate. The play celebrates the beauty of ugliness, of being an outsider, and of the creativity that lies dormant within us and allows us to experience connectedness with others.

Young slam poets, word artists and lyricists take note! Here you can tell stories, rhyme, rap, whisper, scream, read or freely narrate. The only conditions are a time limit of 5 minutes, a self-written and performed text and the renunciation of props, disguise and singing.

"New Old" is rather personal. It is on the verge, if not already way over the edge, to something private. Meandering between topics such as the fear of peeing oneself, the mouth-like quality of the vulva, the phenomenologically fascinating thing of being two people at once for a while, as well as how musical the word ‘pussy’ is in different languages, and the consequences thereof.

"The Myth: last day" is centred around a prefabricated archaeological mine, where a pseudo-archaeologist digs objects from the ground. It intertwines reality and fiction and creates myths, thereby constructing speculative pasts and futures. The show’s second part is a black-metal-inspired doomsday concert, where the researcher becomes a chaotic punk-metalhead.

"Mischmatsch" is the story of a person on the margins of society. For someone who has so little, the longing for life and the hunger for liveliness also means survival. And it seems that his humor and longing are the only things he has to counter his situation.

The VRUM Performing Arts Collective plunges into the adventure of fighting fear! Based on the poem "Life doesn't Frighten me", the intergenerational ensemble is developing a production in which it explores the dangers, horrors and craziness of everyday life.