Nicole Haitzinger completed her studies and dissertation at the institute for theater sciences of the University of Vienna. As a scientific coach, dance dramaturg and curator she participated in several international projects and theory-practice-modules. Her scientific, dramaturgic and journalistic focus is on the creative encounter between theory and practice, in history and the present. In her scientific work she engages in staging and concepts of efficacy of dance in different historic formations, as well as in contemporary performance art, considering practical-theoretical (and interdisciplinary) perspectives. Since 2004 she works at the department for dance science at the University of Salzburg. She writes for Corpus www.corpusweb.net and lives and works in Salzburg and Vienna.