August 2024

August 2024

I’m leaving Vienna after five intensive weeks of classes, workshops, performances, artistic exchange, sweaty dance floors, laughter and love. I’m bringing back with me so many great memories, insights and inspirations that will continue to unravel. I’m grateful that I had the opportunity to meet some amazing dancers, artists and teachers from a generation that has shaped the field of performance before I was even born. Amongst them, I would like to mention especially Ishmael Houston-Jones, Sara Shelton Mann and Glenna Batson. Thank you so much for passing on your wisdoms and tricks, developed over many years of work! It was a great gift to be mentored by Isabel Lewis, who is a master of listening and trusting the senses, including the sense of pleasure. And I’m happy to have 50 new friends and colleagues to be in conversation with all over the world! The pictures below were taken in a workshop with Isabel Lewis and in one with the wonderful Zagreb-based artist Sonja Pregrad.

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One more note on my Impulstanz summer: Deva Schubert’s Glitch Choir, in which I have performed mid July was chosen as a winner of the 8:TENSION price that is given each year to one of the young and upcoming choreographers presenting their work in the frame of the festival. I’m proud of my friend and happy that I was part of this beautiful project!

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