Life today can’t be imagined without visual music, whether music videos or VJ-ing; however, 90 years ago the attempt of merging images with sound was downright revolutionary. Around 1920 the classic avant-garde surrounding Walter Ruttmann, Viking Eggeling, Hans Richter and Oskar Fischinger was on the look-out for numerous forms of expressing a synthetic art form – one that would combine both areas of perception. Thus several immortal and highly sensual works were created, which form the starting point of this programme. “Dancing Images” conceives the optical-musical poetry of days gone by in line with today’s visual music, points out direct and indirect references in the recent abstract history of animation and wraps up the dancing images of yesteryear in a film historical live-performance given by the multiple prize-winning and rightly much-lauded AV-media artists Max Hattler and Noriko Okaku.