The Living Positions - series brings outstanding contemporary productions from the repertoires of companies working across dance, performance, theatre, and music theatre back to the stage. Initiated by Max Kaufmann and Chris Haring, the format opens a space at Odeon for renewed encounters with internationally presented works that have previously only been shown briefly in Vienna. The current edition focuses on artistic engagements with female bodies and brings together positions that question and transform existing attributions.

At the centre of this edition was a survey of works by Anne Juren, conceived as a mid career survey offering a concentrated insight into her choreographic practice. The selection made different artistic approaches visible while tracing a continuity in her engagement with body, perception, and staging. In parallel, the exhibition common ground at Spitzer connected performative approaches with visual installations, bringing diverse artistic perspectives into a shared context.

The evening itself was conceived as an autonomous choreographic composition. Instead of presenting full length works, three fragments from J'aime, Komposition, and Magical were shown. These excerpts focused on central movement qualities, performative strategies, and thematic concerns, rendering the distinct signatures of each work with precision.

The fragments were connected through specifically developed choreographic transitions. These transitions functioned not only as links but as independent condensations in which motifs shifted, overlapped, and were newly articulated. In this way, an amalgam emerged that set the original works in relation to one another while generating a new and autonomous form.