Photo by Alexi Pelekanos
Come Back Again
Doris Uhlich & Susanne Kirnbauer-Bundy
(Austria)
18 October 2025 | 2.00pm — 3.00pm
£9.50 | £6 (Concession)
Recommended for ages 14+
Platform Easterhouse (Directions)
BSL Interpreted
Come Back Again is a performance about the courage to challenge one’s own body biography and choose previously untaken paths at an advanced age.
After SPITZE (2008) and Come Back (2012), choreographer Doris Uhlich continues her collaboration with Susanne Kirnbauer-Bundy, the former principal solo dancer at the Vienna State Opera. In her mid-40s she had to end her career as an active ballet dancer: there is no place on the ballet stage for an aging body – let alone an aging female body.
Now, at over 80, Kirnbauer-Bundy joins up with choreographer Doris Uhlich to explore ways for her energy to transform beyond the ballet steps she is no longer able to perform. In a limbo of change and rearrangement, two dancers of different generations meet to revisit the past, illuminate the present and conduct futuristic archaeology.
Double-Bill Audience Bus 🚌
Book the Audience Bus after Lukas Avendaño's Requiem para un Alcaraván that will take you straight to Platform Easterhouse, returning back to Glasgow Central after the performance.
Energetic Icons: Workshop with Doris Uhlich
We’ll host a workshop with Doris Uhlich and Boris Kopeinig, Energetic Icons, exploring movement, dance and sound. The workshop is for performers, artists, dancers, movers and makers and explores Uhlich’s method, with live DJ accompaniment Boris Kopeinig.
Access Notes
This performance is highly visual with some spoken text in English.
This performance will be BSL Interpreted by Yvonne Strain
Sensory Notes:
Full Blackout
Loud Music
Smoke, Fog or Haze
Language: English
Venue and Seating:
Platform Theatre (Entrance from Ground floor). Wheelchair accessible by Lift. Platform venue access information.
Seating: Seating Bank with flip down, padded seats with arms. 1 row step free. Wheelchair spaces available to reserve via Platform Box Office.
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Content Notes
Mention of weight and body image
Artist Bio
Doris Uhlich (*1977), Austrian choreographer and performer, develops projects in different formats – from pieces for the stage to site-specific performances. She works with people with varying backgrounds and physical inscriptions, opening the dance stage for people with physical disabilities, demonstrating the potentials of nakedness beyond eroticism and provocation or investigating the relationship between human being and machine at many different levels. She has received numerous prizes and awards and was recently awarded the 2024 Austrian Art Prize for “Performing Arts” from the Federal Ministry Republic of Austria for Arts, Culture, the Civil Service and Sport (BMKÖS). She was also awarded the 2024 Austrian Music Theatre Award for SONNE as the “Best Dance Production”.
Susanne Kirnbauer-Bundy (*1942), austrian dancer and choreographer, began her career at the age of eight at the ballet school of the Vienna State Opera and obtained her first engagement with the Vienna State Ballet in 1956. She became a soloist in 1967 and first soloist in 1972, dancing leading roles in the classical and modern repertoire. After ending her career as an active dancer, she took over as director of the Vienna Volksoper from 1986 to 1996, choreographing full-length ballet productions and also supervising the choreography of various operettas. She later worked, among others, in Italy, Germany, Switzerland, for the Salzburg Festival and for the Seefestspiele Mörbisch. In 2022, she received the Golden Medal of Merit of the State of Vienna for her outstanding achievements in dance and choreography. Since 2008, she has engaged in an artistic collaboration with Doris Uhlich in SPITZE (2008) and Come Back (2012).
Credits
Concept, choreography: Doris Uhlich
Performance: Susanne Kirnbauer-Bundy, Doris Uhlich
Dramaturgical collaborator: Adam Czirak
Outside eye: Nikolaus Selimov
Feedback: Yoshie Maruoka
Sound: DJ Boris Kopeinig
Stage: Doris Uhlich in collaboration with Juliette Collas
Stage support: Marco Tölzer
Lighting Design: Leticia Skrycky
Lighting Technical Implementation and Tour Support: Gerald Pappenberger
Communication, press: Franziska Heubacher
Company management, production: Margot Wehinger
International distribution: Giulia Traversi
Thanks to best4stage and Sophie Tautorus
Coproduction brut Wien and insert Tanz und Performance GmbH, Platform and Take Me Somewhere.
Funded by the Cultural Department of the City of Vienna, the Federal Ministry Republic of Austria for Arts, Culture, Civil Service and Sport
