Doris Uhlich was born in 1977 in Upper Austria, studied Pedagogics for contemporary dance at the Conservatory of Vienna between 1997 and 2001. She has been teaching since 1997 e.g. for the Tanzwerkstatt Wien, Conservatory of Vienna, and lecturing and coaching students from the Academy of visual arts in Vienna at the Performance department in 2009. She received scholarships and residencies at ImPulsTanz and brut/Wien, K3/Kampnagel Hamburg, as well as the Carte Blanche at Tanzquartier Vienna (2007).
Since 2006 she develops her own work:
"und" (premiered at brut/Wien 2007, presented a.o. at the Festival Österreich tanzt, BAC/London, Festival Poltitik im freien Theater/Köln), "SPITZE" (premiered at brut/Wien 2008, presented a.o. at ImPulsTanz, Les Subsistances/Lyon, Chelsea Theater/London, Mousonturm/Frankfurt, Österreichische Tanzplattform, Tanzquartier Vienna), "mehr als genug" (premiered at Les Subsistances/Lyon 2009, presented a.o. at Centre Pompidou/Paris, Les Halles/Brussels), "Rising Swan" (premiered at brut/Wien 2010 and presented at Gessnerallee Zürich, Dampfzentrale Bern, Kaserne Basel, Judson Church/New York), „Uhlich“ (U.A. Wiener Festwochen 2011).
She has been named as "remarkable Performer" in the dance magazine "Ballettanz" in the year book of 2008.