FOR ART, CULTURE AND HUMANITY

We have created a garden, an archive and a foundation for Ismael, according to his wishes in the last years of his life.
Please share your memories, texts, photographs, films etc. to mail@ismaelivo.com for us to present and cherish for our inspiration and for future generations.

Ismael Ivo, * 17th of January 1955 São Paolo (Brazil),† 8th of April 2021 São Paolo, dancer and choreographer.

Vienna International Dance Festival & Ismael Ivo Foundation

Das ImPulsTanz – Vienna International Dance Festival ist zu Europas größtem Festival für zeitgenössischen Tanz und Performance herangewachsen. Jeden Sommer verwandelt es Wien in eine globale Bühne für wegweisende Choreografien, visionäre Ästhetik und intensive tänzerische Weiterbildung.

Die Verbindung zwischen ImPulsTanz und der Ismael Ivo Foundation wurzelt in einer langjährigen Freundschaft und bewegten Gründungsgeschichte. Karl Regensburger und Ismael Ivo, die visionären Gründer des Festivals, haben den zeitgenössischen Tanz in Wien und weltweit entscheidend geprägt. Diese enge Kooperation verbindet kreative Tradition mit der Zukunft der nächsten Generation.

Gemeinsam feiern wir den Tanz und die Kreativität als universelle Kultursprache – ganz im Sinne von Ismael Ivos Vision. Sein Wunsch war es, eine Foundation für Kunst, Kultur und Humanität in Nymphenburg zu gründen.

https://www.impulstanz.com/history

MAKE ART NOT WAR

Dank an Dieter Blum

Frida Kahlo Forever

Choosing Creation over Destruction

Remembering Charles Baudelaire

Les Fleurs du Mal – Die Blumen des Bösen

The Flowerring of Evil

EVIL IS A CHOICE

FLAMINGO REVOLUTIONLiberation from colonial occupation from Palestine to Albania to Africa…

Link zum UN Bericht

https://www.un.org/unispal/document/a-hrc-59-23-from-economy-of-occupation-to-economy-of-genocide-report-special-rapporteur-francesca-albanese-palestine-2025/

THE GOD OF MOVEMENT

A man of hope, a man of truth, a man with an illuminated soul.
 
A liberator – he gave a voice to the oppressed.

Ismael showed us what is possible by taking risks, by moving and dancing social racial artistic and institutional boundaries.
 
He showed us the power of his passion and engaged our own with is eloquence, beauty and talent.

He was a visionary and a dreamer. One who created his very own universe by becoming a sun around which we now revolve.

Ismael knew that the expansion of the physical, mental and the emotional allows us to contribute to the growth of civilisation.

By dancing and vibrating our hearts and minds out of the ordinary world into the realm of greater consciousness and a higher quality of life.

We who had the honour of knowing him personally also have the responsibility of preserving his memory and his teachings for those who follow.

Marcel Kaskeline, President of the Foundation

Artist / Architect, Stage Set Designer, Collaborator and Heir of Ismaels Estate

Catherine Jennnings – Dancer, Creator, Activist

Protecting the birds of paradise

The Cultural Society of the Ismael Ivo Foundation is inspired by Sarah Jennings

the later Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough, Princess of Mindelheim, Countess of Nellenburg living an independant life ahead of her times. Politically active, investing and building.

5 June 1660 – 18 October 1744

Ismael in Vienna

Ismael Ivo in Vienna at the Burgtheater with the “golden honorary cross of the city of vienna”.

Ismael in Venezia

“The Italians they cultivate joy.”

Ismael Ivo, choreograf and director of the dancesection of the Biennale of Venice from 2005 till 2012.

Die Choreografin Pina Bausch erhielt im Juni 2007 den Goldenen Löwen (Leone d’Oro) der Biennale von Venedig für ihr Lebenswerk – überreicht von Ismael Ivo

From 2017 till 2020 Ismael Ivo was the director of the Balé da Cidade de São Paulo.

The Flowerring of Life – The Growing of a Garden of Art, Beauty and Creative Expression in one mans life

Current contributors and collaborators

Leona Beka- International Legal Advisor of the Foundation

Content Director of the Foundation – Emma Vollmann

in Kollaboration mit Ronda eV. und der Bürgerbewegung Blauer Regen

Gründerin von Ronda eV. – Ludmilla Fischbeck