
premiere: 26 + 27 February 2025
Szene Salzburg
performance, creation, choreography:
Francesco D'Amelio - Franz
Weng Teng Choi-Buttinger - Mei Fung
Marcin Denkiewicz - Rudi
Nikola Majtanova - Kitty
Marcello Musini - Arno
Jerca Rožnik Novak - Milka
artistic direction, creation: Editta Braun
composition: Thierry Zaboitzeff
choreographic assistance: Maja Mirek
dramaturgy: Gerda Poschmann-Reichenau
light design: Thomas Hinterberger
length: 55 minutes
stage size: 8x9m minimum, dance carpet, no concrete floor possible (actobatics)
set up and performance within one full day possible, if enough technicans available




Weng Teng Choi-Buttinger - dance
* 1992 in Macao, graduated in classical ballet from the Hong Kong Academy, danced in Swan Lake, Les Sylphides, among others. Several prizes, also for her own choreographies, including in Macau, Taipei and Edinburgh. BA at the ABPU Linz. Married in Austria, mother of two children. https://we-cie.com
Performs with e b c in: Hydráos, Proximity, women, Underdogs, Women, Women of Water
Nikola Majtanova - dance
* 1996 in Slovakia, BA in Contemporary Dance and Pedagogy at the ABPU Linz. Engagements at the Landestheater Linz, collaboration with Laja Martin, Darrel Toulon, Marion Sparber, Nikol as Paul, Jan Lauwers, Paul Blackman. In addition to her performances, Nikola also works as a dance teacher.
Performs with e b c in: ALLES ANDERS, Proximity, women, Underdogs, Women, Women of Water
Jerca Rožnik Novak - dance
* 1992 in Slovenia, BA and MA in Contemporary Dance and Pedagogy at the ABPU Linz. Engagements with Willi Dorner, Andreja Podrzavnik, Damian Cortes Alberti, Magdalena Reiter. Since 2014 member of SILK Fluegge and e b c. https://jercarozniknovak.com
Performs with e b c in: instant, trails, ALLES ANDERS, Proximity, women, Underdogs, Women, Women of Water
Marcin Denkiewicz - dance
* 1995 in Warsaw, Poland, BA in Contemporary Dance and Education at ABPU Linz. Most recently he has worked with Bert Gstettner, Laja Martin, Body Architects, Robert Carsen, Kirill Serebrennikov. In addition to his performances, Marcin teaches contemporary dance in workshops with a focus on acrobatics and partnering techniques.
Performs with e b c in: ALLES ANDERS, Underdogs
Francesco D'Amelio - dance
* 1988 in Italy, degree as Actor at CSA Milano, BA and MA in contemporary dance at ZZT Cologne and AP Antwerp. Engagements with MakeaMove Collective, Performing:Group, Judith Sanchez Ruiz, SILK Fluegge. Beside working for others Francesco is the founder of the collective STATO BRADO through which he is developing his own style of performing and teaching mixing theatre and dance improvisation, Idokinesis and acrobatics.
Performs with e b c in: Underdogs
Marcello Musini - dance
* 1997 in Italy, italian/hungarian born, studied in Hungary and graduated from SEAD Salzburg. Engagements with TRAK Dance Ensemble, Paul Blackman, Jan Lauwers, Cie Laroque, Marie Nuzel, Bahzad Sulaiman, Hubert Lepka, Bodhi Project. Besides freelancing, Marcello finds interest mostly in improvisation practices, and teaches dance as well as Pilates with a focus on body awareness.
Performs with e b c in: Underdogs
Maja Mirek - choreographic assistance
* in 1991 in Poland, journalist with a BA degree, driven by the desire to heal the world. After MA degree in interactive media, she changed her life dancing. In 2020 graduated dance at the Royal Conservatoire Antwerp, in 2023 with a BA at ABPU in Linz. Currently engagement at the Stadttheater Gießen/Germany. Besides being a dancer and performer, Maja Mirek works also as photographer.
Performs with e b c in: NaYmA, Women, Women of Water







Broken, but together. Not useful to society. They wear their clothes in layers on top of each other.
They are people like you and me. Vulnerable, anxious, peculiar. Occasionally aggressive. Sometimes happy. Solidary. Selfish.
Will they throw their lostnesses together? Will they show solidarity? Fight with each other instead of against each other? Their powerlessness, added together, would be an enormous force. A threat and a promise at the same time.
Sometimes surreal and dreamlike in isolation, sometimes furiously whirling in a group: the top-class six-member ensemble combines acrobatics, synchronised rhythmic group choreographies and acting elements to create poetic and exciting variations on isolation and conformism, the pressure of competition and the power of solidarity on the margins of our society.
An exciting sextet with elements of acrobatics, dance and drama about isolation and conformism, blind violence, merciless struggle, the rage of ideology and war, but also about the power of solidarity on the margins of our society.


















Underdogs
REVIEWS
“Breathtaking, spectacular dance, fascinating and complicated choreographies - Editta Braun, choreographer, founder and director of the Editta Braun Company, is nothing less than a choreographic genius.”
Leo Fellinger, März 2025, in Nachlese
“A piece with immense symbolic power, a crown jewel in the world of contemporary dance, a manifesto of resistance against indifference, a powerful appeal to the strength of community.”
Leo Fellinger, März 2025, in Nachlese
