“If Morticia’s languor and Wednesday’s blankness are gothic versions of Yvonne Rainer’s “neutral doer,” then it doesn’t go without saying might well be their spectral descendant.”
“the neutral doer, but make it gothic”
“Deadpan, with a pulse”
Image credit Collage composed of a night photograph of the National Dance Centre Bucharest (CNDB), taken after a performance of Fiction Fiction at the French Institute Atrium within The institution of performance (curated by Adriana Gheorghe, produced by Teatre/Theatres); rehearsal images of Ray Scheinecker and Elizabeth Ward, photographed during OIL, a site-specific experiment for Tanzquartier Wien by Isabel Lewis and Dirk Bell; a portrait of Alix Eynaudi photographed by Markus Krottendorfer during Wearing the walls, a performative exhibition by Alix Eynaudi and Christian Kosmas Mayer at Blickle Raum, wearing a dress by An Breugelmans originally made for Edelweiss (2014); a detail of Alix Eynaudi’s hand holding a smoketree leaf found on Martinstrasse, Vienna; and a still from The Addams family goes to school (1964), showing a cage in the foreground and a crow released into the sky, with the fragment and gloomy retained from the original caption “We like it. It’s nice and gloomy.”
16–18 April 2026 — Tanzquartier Wien
29–30 October 2026 — Kaaitheater, Brussels
it doesn’t go without saying (& other gossips)
it doesn’t go without saying (& other gossips) is a project by Alix Eynaudi and Elizabeth Ward together with dancer Ray Scheinecker that fabulates on the legacy of US postmodern dance, specifically through the work and stories of choreographer and videographer Cathy Weis. While the work does not include an integrated Audio Description, particular emphasis is placed on the sound composition -by Paul Kotal- as an autonomous element where voices and vivid descriptions, in the form of interviews & gossip, reflect on archiving, accessibility, and collective memory.
Following the idea that we never dance alone, a clothing collection by Isabelle Edi and a light design by Lukas Kötz sculpt a performative landscape in which the dances unfold as a series of tributes.
Contributors:
Bears in the Park (Wien, Austria), Residency Partner
Cathy Weis / WeisAcres (NYC), Partnership
Cathy Weis, Voices
Elizabeth Ward, Concept & On Stage
Federal Ministry for Housing, Arts, Culture, Media and Sport (BMWKMS), Support
Isabelle Edi, Costumes
Kunstencentrum BUDA (Kortrijk, Belgium), Residency Partner
Kaaitheater (Brussels, Belgium), Coproducer
Lukas Kötz, Light Design
mollusca productions, Production
Paul Kotal, Sound Design, Original Music & Interview Editing
Ray Scheinecker, On Stage
Stadt Wien – Kulturabteilung (MA 7), Support
TAKELAGE, Administration
Tanzquartier Wien, Coproducer
Alix Eynaudi, Concept & On Stage
Performances
16–18 April 2026 — Tanzquartier Wien
29–30 October 2026 — Kaaitheater, Brussels