{"id":48508,"date":"2022-06-24T06:11:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-24T05:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/?p=48508"},"modified":"2024-12-06T12:58:23","modified_gmt":"2024-12-06T11:58:23","slug":"no-dancing-allowed-exhibition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/sights\/museums\/no-dancing-allowed-exhibition\/","title":{"rendered":"No Dancing Allowed exhibition"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/nodancingallowedsmall.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/nodancingallowedsmall.jpg\" alt=\"Exhibition poster\" class=\"wp-image-48510\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/nodancingallowedsmall.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/nodancingallowedsmall-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Freedom of expression offers a rich soil for artistic treatment. Even more so during a pandemic, where even the simple act of dancing becomes subject to restrictions. An exhibition at the MuseumsQuartier presents creative responses to a time of <em>No Dancing Allowed<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>An eclectic mix of multimedia installations<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Dance treated as a metaphor for various forms of expression<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Artists tackle &#8220;restriction&#8221; in a wider sense: physical, political, etc.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Runs Jun 22 &#8211; Nov 20, 2022<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Free to view<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>See also:\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/sightseeing\/vienna-museums\/mq\/\">MuseumsQuartier overview<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/entertainment\/events\/exhibitions\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"37363\">Exhibitions in Vienna<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Move that body (or not)<\/h2>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"306\" src=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/nodancingallowed.jpg\" alt=\"Choreographic Camouflage. Liam Young, 2021\" class=\"wp-image-48509\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/nodancingallowed.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/nodancingallowed-300x184.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-small-font-size\">(Press photo: Choreographic Camouflage. Liam Young, 2021)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Give it a moment of reflection and the simple idea of rhythmic body movements (or less than rhythmic in my case) takes on huge meaning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dancing fulfills a plethora of roles in society. A shared experience that brings people together. A means of personal expression. A means of collective expression (and protest). A continuation of cultural bonds and historical ritual. Entertainment. Exercise. The list goes on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The desire to dance seems to be a fundamental human instinct and need. Not to mention a useful tool for groups and movements to express their collective unity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What happens, then, when dancing becomes constrained by circumstances, as in the pandemic?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The COVID era has placed restrictions on venues, gatherings, and shared physical proximity. And thus on some manifestations of dance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And in an inadvertent stroke of fate and irony, COVID has brought a swathe of mental burdens that dance might otherwise help alleviate. A double blow?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The <em>No Dancing Allowed<\/em> exhibition presents the work of various artists, who use video and multimedia installation to address a range of topics related to recent and current circumstances: from protesting police brutality to the beauty and precision of human movement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The exhibition&#8217;s broad theme seems to be the response to constraints that remove a reprieve and outlet for the kind of emotions that restrictions and a wider sociocultural and sociopolitical situation accentuate: boredom, loneliness, grief, anger and similar. In curator Bogomir Doringer&#8217;s terms: the Dance of Urgency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As such, <em>No Dancing Allowed<\/em> explores the interaction between movement, body and space (in a time of COVID) rather than dance in its narrow sense. Dance serves more as a metaphor for expression. Restriction as a metaphor for exclusion, repression, and bigotry, too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So the remit is wide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m a child of the 80s in the UK, so Jeremy Deller&#8217;s video explanation of the rave movement in the context of, for example, Thatcherism felt unexpectedly relevant. You sense a thread from treatment of striking miners to today&#8217;s restrictions (COVID and otherwise) on forms of protest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Luiz Felipe&#8217;s <em>El Tiro<\/em> held a strange fascination: a man running without moving. A metaphor for so many themes and catalyst for so many questions, if not for the entirety of the life experience. Ah, too much coffee again, this morning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Walking through the exhibition, it often felt like a collective scream, though underpinned by resilience: totally appropriate to how many of us (still) feel. The concepts gain added poignancy with the situation in Ukraine: particularly Anton Shebetko&#8217;s portraits of nightclub guests in pre-war Kyiv.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Dates, tickets &amp; tips<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Dance your way through the exhibition halls between June 22nd and November 20th, 2022. Entry is free. Note the exhibition space only opens from 1pm to 7pm Tuesday to Sunday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">How to get there<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><em>No Dancing Allowed<\/em> takes place in the frei_raum Q21 exhibition tract (now the MQ Freiraum + Salon) of the MuseumsQuartier. If you&#8217;re outside the MQ facing the main entrance, then walk left along the building to find it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Follow the tips <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitingvienna.com\/sightseeing\/vienna-museums\/mq\/\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"4030\">here<\/a> to find the MQ in the first place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Address: Museumsplatz 1\/5, 1070 Vienna<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/d\/u\/0\/embed?mid=1i9IZX6LeUKth_5sm2EOO-SqQl8s\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Freedom of expression offers a rich soil for artistic treatment. Even more so during a pandemic, where even the simple act of dancing becomes subject to restrictions. An exhibition at the MuseumsQuartier presents creative responses to a time of No Dancing Allowed. Move that body (or not) (Press photo: Choreographic Camouflage. 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