with Moritz Ostruschnjak
When
WED 26.11.2025 10:00-14:00
THU 27.11.2025 10:00-16:00
FRI 28.11.2025 10:00-16:00 with a SHOWING at 19:30 in the Theater am Gleis, at the Tanzfestival Winterthur
Where
TOaG / Tanzort am Gleis
Untere Vogelsangstrasse 2
8400 Winterthur
2nd Floor
What
During the Tanzfestival Winterthur Moritz Ostruschnjak will give a 3-day intense workshop for professional dancers/dancemakers/dance pedagogues.
Uncreative Dancing – Workshop
Why bother coming up with ideas when the internet has already done it for you?
Let’s be honest: Why waste time racking your brain for something “new”? A quick Google search – and boom, someone else already beat you to it. Everything’s been done, everything’s been seen, everything’s been danced. Welcome to the age of overflow: clips, memes, TikToks, tutorials, dance challenges – endless, on demand, everywhere. But what does this constant flood of images actually do to us? To our bodies? And what does it do to dance itself?
In this lab, we celebrate losing control over the idea of “owning” something. We’ll collect, copy, loop, and remix movements from the internet, pop culture, and social media. Copy & paste becomes a choreographic strategy. Reenactment turns into a statement. Remix becomes an attitude. It’s not about inventing something new. It’s about putting the already-there together in a new way. Stealing gestures, borrowing moves, messing with existing material – while asking: Who actually owns what? What does “original” even mean today? And is originality still relevant at all in the age of AI, memes, and TikTok? Instead of desperately searching for that one move nobody’s ever done before, we take the overflow as an invitation: everything is material. Everything is remix.
And let’s be honest: This text was written together with ChatGPT.
About Moritz Ostruschnjak
Coming from the breakin’ and graffit sprayer scene, Moritz Ostruschnjak developed his interest in contemporary dance through breakdancing. He studied from 2001 to 2003 at Iwanson International in Munich and completed his training with Maurice Béjart in Lausanne. He has been working as a freelance choreographer in Munich since 2013 and has created a total of teen productions of his own. Most recently “CRY WHY” a duet for two dancers, two pianos, two inline skates and a pianist premiered in September 2024 and „NON + ULTRAS“, a performance for eight dancers, 500 fan scarves and video in January 2025. His production CARDBOAD SESSIONS, a work featuring urban dancers, celebrated its premiere at Munich’s Pinakothek der Moderne in June 2025 as a collaboration with the International Dance Festival. His pieces have been shown at numerous international festivals and have been selected three times for the TANZPLATTFORM DEUTSCHLAND. In addition to his own productions, he also creates commissioned works, including „TRAILER PARK“ for the tanzmainz ensemble in 2023. Moritz Ostruschnjak is one of the Aerowaves Twenty21 Artists, was awarded the City of Munich’s Förderpreis Tanz and is a member of the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts and Tanztendenz München e.V.
Participants of the workshop are invited to visit the performances that take place on the days of the workshop (Thursday and Friday) for free.
Moritz Ostruschnjak will show his piece CRY WHY on Saturday.
Participation:
CHF 180.-
The fee includes: workshop fee / dinner at the festival / free ticket to the festival performances during the time of the workshop
You don’t have to work or live in Switzerland to attend the workshop. We can’t provide accomodation or cover any travel fees for people who have not received a scholarship.
Apply until the 10th of November 2025 by sending us a short e-mail with some documents or links to show that you are a professional dancer / dancemaker / dance pedagogue to:
info@tanzinwinterthur.ch