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ImPulsTanz Vienna International Dance Festival is a major

contemporary dance Contemporary dance is a genre of dance performance that developed during the mid-twentieth century and has since grown to become one of the dominant genres for formally trained dancers throughout the world, with particularly strong popularity in ...

festival held in Vienna, Austria each year. It gathers thousands of professional dancers, choreographers and teachers for a five-week program of performance, research projects and workshops. It was started by Karl Regensburger and

choreographer Choreography is the art or practice of designing sequences of movements of physical bodies (or their depictions) in which motion or form or both are specified. ''Choreography'' may also refer to the design itself. A choreographer is one who cr ...

Ismael Ivo in 1984 as the "Internationale Tanzwochen Wien" with dance teachers including Joe Alegado,

Germaine Acogny Germaine Acogny (born 1944) is a Senegalese dancer and choreographer. She is responsible for developing "African Dance", as well as the creation of several dance schools in both France and Senegal. She has been decorated by both countries, includ ...

and Walter Raines. In 1988 it took the name "ImPulsTanz Vienna International Dance Festival" with works by Wim Vandekeybus, Marie Chouinard and Mark Tompkins. It set up

danceWEB Europe danceWEB Europe is a non profit association of dance organisations based in Vienna, Austria led by "danceWEB/Vienna". Funded under the "Culture 2000 programme of the European Union" in 2002 to 31 May 2005 with a community grant of €900,000 and in ...

danceWeb-Europe
/ref> in 1996, initially as a scholarship program and now facilitating sharing ideas and knowledge, further training and gathering renowned artists

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ImPulsTanz Vienna International Dance FestivalEVERYBODY DANCE - interview with Rio Rutzinger, the artistic director of workshops and research at the ImPulsTanz 2015
accessed 22 June 2007 * ttp://www.ar2com.de/radiofavela-blog/category/impulstanz/ some interviews from imPULStanz 2008 the 25th anniversary. Dance festivals in Austria Contemporary dance Dance in Austria Festivals in Vienna Culture in Vienna Tourist attractions in Vienna 1984 establishments in Austria Festivals established in 1984 {{Festival-stub