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.
The people, places, plants, and animals, and their expression in the tradition of magical realism, presented here, do not necessarily hold the views of the platform. This is a collage of the ways in which Ismael has inspired us today. This is a glimpse of his legacy, which does not lay claim to capture the entirety of his life´s work.
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 – https://www.impulstanz.com/history
MAKE ART NOT WAR
Dank an Dieter Blum
Protect the birds of paradise
The Flowerring of Evil
Remembering Charles Baudelaire
Les Fleurs du Mal – Die Blumen des Bösen
Evil is a choice
FLAMINGO REVOLUTIONLiberation from colonial occupation from Palestine to Albania to Africa…
Frida Kahlo Forever
Choosing Creation over Destruction
Combating Chaos, Cruelty and Corruption
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.
Karl Regensburger – The mastermind of movement – Wien
Marcel Kaskeline – President of the Foundation – Berlin
Artist / Architect, Stage Set Designer, Collaborator and Heir of Ismaels Estate
Catherine Jennings – Creative, Activist, Dancer – München
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. Politicaly influential, 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
inspired by Ismael since 1984
Current contributors and collaborators
Leona B. – International Legal Advisor of the Foundation based in New York
Anna Maria Kagerer – Artist and mediadesigner of the Foundation based in San Francisco
Webdesigner and psychological analyst of the Foundation based in Munich – Emma Vollmann
in Kollaboration mit Ronda eV. gegründet von Ludmilla Fischbeck und der Bürgerbewegung Blauer Regen
Verantwortlichkeiten
Die auf der Homepage präsentierten Inhalte sind als Collage zu verstehen, die dem Zeitgeist entspringen. Verantwortlich zeigt sich allein die Ismael Ivo Foundation. Durch die Kuratierung der Bild- und Textdateien sind keine Rückschlüsse auf Meinungen der Einzelautoren und Künstler zu ziehen.
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ISMAEL IVO
We all love him so very dearly and wish to keep that ever bubbling fountain of wisdom, humor and beauty alive and well.
Ismael left our party early to our great shock, grief and disbeliefe.
In 66 years he lived at least 66 lives. Now he truly deserves to rest and watch us joyfully continue his work with him and for him.
Ismael is dancing with the stars and forever in our hearts.
With Love
Catherine Jennings & Marcel Kaskeline