PROGRAMME
23.10. Festival Opening
19:00 Open Discussion: Weaving Connections
The festival team opens the evening with a presentation of the program and the ideas that inspire Tangled — connection, awareness, diversity, and sustainability.
How can music build bridges? What responsibility does art carry in a time of alienation? And how can new concert formats become spaces of genuine encounter?
In an open round table discussion, musicians, curators, and cultural practitioners from Vienna’s young scene come together to explore connection, multidisciplinarity, and the social role of art.
Golnar Shahyar
musician, composer & activist
Christoph Zimper
musician & festival director
Joseph Avila
musician & concert designer
Selina Pilz
musician & music mediator
Nika Bauman
moderator
Into The Web
Music x Theatre x Dance
Synesthetic Project: Arachne
20:00 - Arachne
Step into a web of ritual, music, and movement where stories of femininity and transformation unfold. Arachne is a musical theatre piece celebrating female bonds, rituals, and traditions surrounding womanhood. Inspired by Greek mythology, the work intertwines feminist theory with reflections on multiculturality and personal experience - music, movement, and text merge into a living web that embraces both audience and performers alike.
Threads of Tomorrow
Music x Fashion x Dance
A Fashion Show Reimagined
20:00 – Vox Balaenae
A whisper from the depths of the sea. George Crumb’s iconic Vox Balaenae - inspired by the songs of whales and the cycles of nature - unfolds as a sensual performance of sound, light, and movement.
20:45 - Threads of Tomorrow
Music, fashion, and movement merge into a vibrant collage where the past is reborn. Reimagined fashion show meets contemporary dance and recycled sounds in a poetic act of storytelling and renewal.
Spinning a Tale
Music x Storytelling x Visuals
Stories of (not so) Long Ago
20:00 - Sakina Teyna & Mahan Mirarab
A voice that builds bridges - between times, places, and memories. Sakina Teyna and Mahan Mirarab weave music and poetry into a tapestry of resistance, hope, and belonging.
21:00 – Gorgo Mish
At dusk, when shadows blur and opposites intertwine, the world of Gorgo Mish begins. The collective around Omid Darvishi, Kasho Chualan, Marko Ferlan, and Gaj Bostič explores storytelling in its most primal form - as sound, as movement, as transformation.
25.10. Workshops
10:30 Anna Barbara Bonatto
This workshop, led by Anna Barbara Bonatto, explores the interconnectedness of artists and art forms by guiding dancers, musicians, and participants to use the body as a powerful performative instrument.
12:00 Nika Bauman
This workshop, led by Nika Bauman, equips performers and concert organizers with dramaturgical tools to navigate multidisciplinarity in music theatre direction, innovative concert formats, and live production.