Seeing across styles

Together with Valentin, imani and Daria, this event will unfold as a shared space of practice, exchange, and dialogue.

Starting from Valentin’s exploration of cross-style principles within street and club dance forms, we open a collective inquiry into how movement ideas travel across bodies, styles, and contexts. His proposal will meet imani’s research on emerging neuro-anatomies of the eye, bringing attention to perception and vision.Through movement scores, encounters, and collective reflection, the incoming Diffractive Dialogues will unfold as a living laboratory—where intentions and interpretations continuously meet, diverge, and transform.

At its core, the format approaches dialogue through practice as a generative space: a way to embrace friction, refract knowledge, and open unexpected pathways between distinct yet interconnected artistic worlds.

Location: Angewandte Performance Lab - Expositur Georg-Coch-Platz, mezzanine floor, 1010 Vienna

Registration click on the following link. Spontaneous drop-in also possible.

Participation Attendance for all three days is recommended but not mandatory

Requirements No specific technical level required. Curiosity and openness to exchange and interact with the group are essential

Participation to the event follow a pay-as-you-wish policy

Valentin Alfery

Valentin Alfery is an Austrian choreographer and dancer rooted in breaking and popping who has created stage works since 2005, co-directs the company Hungry Sharks and develops commissioned works internationally. He holds a Master’s degree in Choreography through the COMMA program by Codarts University of the Arts and Fontys University of Applied Sciences.

imani rameses

imani rameses works within the fields of cognitive neuroscience, choreography and andragogy. rameses is a PhD candidate at the University of Applied Arts, Vienna, where she looks at the concept of bio-mythois, as it pertains to sight specific sites, and new neuro-anatomies of the eye. rameses has shown/performed work at ImPulsTanz, Wiener Festwochen, TQW, Digital Arts & Science - Zurich, Society for Artistic Research (SAR), and has presented her research at Harvard University, University of Zurich, and University of Johannesburg.

Daria Lytvynenko

Daria Lytvynenko (lives and works between Ukraine and Austria) is an interdisciplinary artist, author, and facilitator working at the intersection of theater, performance, visual art, and collective practices. In her projects, she explores how geopolitical aggression and militarization shape identity and a sense of belonging, particularly in relation to ecosystems and landscapes. Daria engages with large bodies of water and their communities, approaching the body as a tool for preserving memory and processing both collective and individual experience.