Alix Eynaudi at the Institution of Performance

𝙰𝚕𝚒𝚡 𝙴𝚢𝚗𝚊𝚞𝚍𝚒 𝚊𝚝 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝙸𝚗𝚜𝚝𝚒𝚝𝚞𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗 𝚘𝚏 𝙿𝚎𝚛𝚏𝚘𝚛𝚖𝚊𝚗𝚌𝚎
𝕌𝕟𝕘𝕒𝕥𝕙𝕖𝕣𝕖𝕕 workshop, /SAC@Malmaison
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𝐎𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐛𝐞𝐫 𝟏𝐬𝐭, 𝟓–𝟗 𝐏𝐌
𝐎𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐛𝐞𝐫 𝟐𝐧𝐝–𝟑𝐫𝐝, 𝟏𝟏 𝐀𝐌–𝟑 𝐏𝐌
𝐎𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐛𝐞𝐫 𝟒𝐭𝐡, 𝟕 𝐏𝐌, 𝒇𝒊𝒄𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒇𝒊𝒄𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 performance, French Institute Atrium, Bucharest

The Institution of Performance program started with a ‘full drop into the body’, trance-like rest and deconditioning workshop by Icelandic artist Margrét Sara Guðjónsdóttir, and ends with what poetic choreographer Alix Eynaudi (FR/Vienna) calls ‘Ungathered, a choreo-somatic of resting dissidence: a micro-landscape of collective dances articulated around a library, where books slide under the skin and words become resting grounds’.

This is the last workshop from the generous program and it debuts an entire ‘festival’ called Rehearsal for an Institution of Performance (October 1–30).
Over three days this ‘lab/reunion/assembly will attend to enfleshed ways of sensing-thinking-moving in complicity with one another, committed to the obscurity of transindividual assemblages. Whispery and precarious, like a damp undergrowth, Ungathered rehearses dances that under-grow.’
On October 4th, this practice continues in 𝒇𝒊𝒄𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒇𝒊𝒄𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏, the performance that Alix Eynaudi with turf + surf and Hugo Le Brigand will share in Bucharest, at the French Institute Atrium, after the workshop. Where 𝕌𝕟𝕘𝕒𝕥𝕙𝕖𝕣𝕖𝕕 gathers and ungathers forces in a collective and processual space, 𝒇𝒊𝒄𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒇𝒊𝒄𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 folds those somatic and textual residues into a performative fiction—a staged, danced narrative that carries the echoes of books, bodies, and the resting gestures we practiced together.

𝗔𝗹𝗶𝘅 𝗘𝘆𝗻𝗮𝘂𝗱𝗶 is a French choreographer & dancer living in Vienna whose work is situated within the field of expanded choreography. Her projects explore different formats of making work public, such as publications, salons of collective studies & performances. She has worked as a dancer and performer for a number of companies and projects (AT de Keersmaeker, J. Lacey, A. Juren, B. Charmatz, E. Ward). Her recent stage works are Death by Landscape (2024), fiction fiction (2025), it doesn’t go without saying (2026). In 2019 Alix received a research grant, PEEK, from the FWF (Austrian Science Fund) for her project Noa & Snow. In 2023 she was the recipient of the Arbeitstipendium, the research grant for performing arts from the city of Vienna, which led to the project Institute of Rest(s).
Basking in dance as a space of study Alix dances, works, writes, between craft & chaos in a joyful mess of sorts. She doesn’t work alone; any event, research, invitation is an alibi to spend time with accomplices, a mesh of friendships scintillating under skins, a stirring of a full-of-wonder support.

𝒇𝒊𝒄𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒇𝒊𝒄𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 unfolds as a haunted anticipation—out of sync yet charged with precedent. A photograph of a barricade, the sound of an aura, ultra wet. A poetic juxtaposition, a confluence of dances, movements, almost-thoughts, and gestures drawn from BRUNO (2021) and Death by Landscape (2024), two previous works by Alix Eynaudi, performed together with Hugo Le Brigand.
Here, choreography is an act of reconfiguration—an imprint reanimated, a tender negotiation of presence. Movements drift through a present marbled with memory, where past gestures are not simply repeated but unevenly altered, reassembled, rethought. Words press beneath the skin of dance, an endless reinterpretation, a porous exchange between what was and what remains, between fiction and fiction.

𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗰𝗲𝗽𝘁 Alix Eynaudi
𝗱𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲 Hugo Le Brigand & Alix Eynaudi
𝗰𝗼𝘀𝘁𝘂𝗺𝗲𝘀 An Breugelmans
𝗺𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗰 turf + surf aka Han-Gyeol Lie & Paul Kotal
𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗱𝘂𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 mollusca productions

𝗛𝗮𝗻-𝗚𝘆𝗲𝗼𝗹 𝗟𝗶𝗲 is a pianist based in Vienna and senior lecturer at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz. Her repertoire focuses on French Baroque and the late works of Schubert and Chopin, reflected in projects with Wien Modern, Tanzquartier Wien, the Austrian Film Museum, Grazer Kunstverein, Wiener Volksliedwerk, and the Baltic Triennial. Rooted in praxis and Adorno’s aesthetics, her academic work bridges music, art, and critical theory, with guest lectures at the University of Vienna, the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre, and the Sandberg Institute. Her current project, turf + surf with sound artist Paul Kotal, explores co-composition and collective authorship.

𝗣𝗮𝘂𝗹 𝗞𝗼𝘁𝗮𝗹 (b. 1992) lives and works in Vienna. He is a sound artist whose works are rooted in theater, contemporary and popular music, and live sound. He is currently involved in projects by Alix Eynaudi (FR), Ulduz Ahmadzadeh (IR/AT), Samuel Feldhandler (FR/AT), Christoph Schiele (GER), and Anne Juren (FR/AT). Kotal is co-founder of Zonkey Studios in Vienna, a production studio and home to a collective of musicians. In 2023, he and pianist Han-Gyeol Lie founded the duo collective turf + surf with the aim of fundamentally rethinking musical concepts, structures, and role distributions in both aesthetic and production terms. They go beyond the traditional separation of composition and interpretation and create musical blueprints by compiling material from different historical and aesthetic perspectives in order to establish new forms of musical representation.

𝗛𝘂𝗴𝗼 𝗟𝗲 𝗕𝗿𝗶𝗴𝗮𝗻𝗱 (b. 1991, France) is a dancer living in Vienna. He works with dances as a means of encounter and collaboration with various artists such as Doris Uhlich (Habitat, 2020), Alix Eynaudi (Bruno, 2021), Sebastiano Sing (Mathieu D, 2023), Daniela Georgieva (270206, 2022). In 2019 he performed his solo sans-culottes produced by brut Wien/Imagetanz.

Their presence at The Institution of Performance Bucharest is supported by BMWKMS – Federal Ministry for Housing, Arts, Culture, Media and Sport, as well as SKE austromechana, Cultural Austrian Forum and French Institute in Bucharest.

The Institution of Performance project interrogates the lack of such a dedicated institution and advocates for performance as also a way to think and act in reality—deconditioning our limitations, searching for a way to be together as porous temporary communality, outside consensus, moved by inner drives and sometimes common tides, not needing outside labels as collective or group. And last but not least, it is a daily exercise of hope. The Institution acts and rests on its four pillars/themes/parameters/modes: Love, Landscape, Rest, and the Choir.

The Institution of Performance is a project curated by artist Adriana Gheorghe, produced by Teatre/Theatres and PETEC and co-financed by The Administration of the National Cultural Fund – AFCN. The project does not necessarily represent the official position of the Administration of the National Cultural Fund. AFCN shall not be held liable for the project’s content or any use to which the project outcome might be put. These are the sole responsibility of the beneficiary of the funding.

Picture for fiction fiction by Sebastian Reiser
Graphics by Sebastian Danciu