SOIRÉE DANSANTE

PHACE
Doris Nicoletti, flute
Stefan Obmann, trombone
Petra Ackermann, viola
Roland Schueler, cello
Manuel Alcaraz-Clemente, percussion
Maximilian Ölz, double bass

Liquid Loft

Liquid Loft and the ensemble PHACE have the honor of inviting you to a soirée dansante at Salon Gudrun, located at the corner of Laxenburgerstraße and Gudrunstraße in Vienna. Inspired by the former grand establishments of the suburbs, this immersive ball evening invites the audience to explore freely, unfolding across multiple rooms and spanning three hours. Here, the ballroom becomes a container where the decadence and upheavals of the 19th and 20th centuries flash like a double exposure. The deconstructed Viennese waltz is no longer a couple’s dance, yet it unmistakably retains the utopian energy of its sweeping motions and rotations. A valse capricieuse emerges – a playful act that serves as the prelude to a larger, serialized project.
This event also acts as a preliminary study for performances that Liquid Loft, once again collaborating with PHACE, will realize as part of the Johann Strauss 2025 festival year.