Since 2023 Life Long Burning talks to the artists of ImPulsTanz’ [8:tension] Series to get some insights and anecdotes on their artistic work practices and their residence time during the festival in Vienna. Writer Sean Pfeiffer and the curators Breanna O’Mara & Chris Haring teamed up for this podcast. Until the end of the year, we release one episode of every Thursday.
The [8:tension] Young Choreographers’ Series at ImPulsTanz – Vienna International Dance Festival has been offering the opportunity to get to know a new generation of choreographers from all over the world and their work since 2001. Since 2024 the series is curated by Breanna O’Mara and Chris Haring.
Since 2023 Life Long Burning talks to the artists of ImPulsTanz’ [8:tension] Series to get some insights and anecdotes on their artistic work practices and their residence time during the festival in Vienna. Writer Sean Pfeiffer and the curators Breanna O’Mara & Chris Haring teamed up for this podcast. Until the end of the year, we release one episode of every Thursday.
The [8:tension] Young Choreographers’ Series at ImPulsTanz – Vienna International Dance Festival has been offering the opportunity to get to know a new generation of choreographers from all over the world and their work since 2001. Since 2024 the series is curated by Breanna O’Mara and Chris Haring.

Today’s guest is Georges Labbat, a dancer, choreographer and visual artist working in Paris. With Vienna based choreographer and artistic co-director of the [8:tension] Series, Chris Haring, he met at the Austrian Film Museum to discuss his performance Self/Unnamed. Here, Labbat dances with a resin puppet modeled after himself. They talk about the process of creating the puppet and the ambivalent projections regarding power and desire the duet invites.