Musical Bodies – a monthly series for dance & music

Dancer and choreographer Naïma Mazic selects a Viennese dancer and a Viennese jazz musician, who are commissioned to create a duet together lasting at least 30 and no more than 45 minutes.

The task is to explore new avenues in the communication between dance and music, to establish a non-hierarchical dialogue between the visual and the auditory, and to share a common pulse at least once. The artists are free to decide whether and how much they wish to rehearse and research, or whether they will meet for the first time on the day of the performance. Following the performance, there will be a 7-minute audience discussion in which attendees can share their impressions.

MUSICAL BODIES by more2rhythm is a monthly series for dance and music in 2026 at the Strenge Kammer

Proceeds will be donated to a charitable organization.

Alix Eynaudi dances and works between craft and chaos, in a (mostly) joyful mess. She doesn’t work alone; every event, research, or invitation becomes an alibi to spend time with accomplices—a mesh of friendships scintillating under the skin, a stirring of wondrous support. A crowd assembles, oscillates, agitates; workshopping and freeing the textures of the everyday together, re-assembling the emulsive factors, the whips that whip the cream: an “undomesticated menagerie” (misquoting Mark Foster Gage) of inheritances layered within each other’s presences, chewing and tuning frequencies in and out of their everydays.

In other terms, Alix Eynaudi dances in the fields of expanded choreography at the intersections of dance, performance, and artistic research. Her work unfolds through collaborative processes involving movement, sound, writing, rest, and language. Over recent years, she has presented performances, long-term research projects, publishing experiments, and intimate public formats in theaters, libraries, and informal spaces.

Golnar Shahyar is a vocalist, composer, and performer whose work moves fluidly between concert, music theatre, opera, and interdisciplinary performance. With a strong focus on collaboration, she has been involved in numerous dance, theatre, and cross-disciplinary productions, creating and performing music that engages closely with movement, narrative, and space.

Her artistic practice is rooted in a deep interest in voice as both a musical and expressive medium, often exploring themes of identity, memory, and socio-political realities. Whether on stage as a performer or behind the scenes as a composer, she develops works that bridge genres and cultures, combining elements of jazz, experimental music, and storytelling.

Golnar’s projects range from intimate concert settings to large-scale productions, and are characterised by a sensitivity to context, collective creation, and the emotional depth of live performance.