Bodies in Urban Spaces

Willi Dorner is a performance artist fromVienna, Austria. In 2007, he began anew performance piece. It is calledBodies in Urban Spaces. He works withlocal dancers from different cities. Theybecome living sculptures. They pose inunusual positions in different places.They fit their bodies in small spaces.They pose dramatically to drawattention from people on the street.

Dorner performs Bodies in UrbanSpaces all over the world. He showedthe piece in many countries includingSpain, Portugal, and the U.S. Hisdancers pose in small halls and on busystreets; they hug trees and climb arounddoors. They try to attract as manyviewers as possible. Dorner wants tochange the way people think. People donot notice interesting things every day.Dorner tries to show people the smallinteresting things in their cities.