Editta Braun has the devil in her and has that certain amount of impertinence which arouses sympathy. Her dance is based upon longing, upon liveliness and energy as well as drollery and wit. She is quick-witted without breaking into laughter. She incorporates the esprit of youth, spontaneity and joy in communication without taking herself too seriously"
Jean-Marie Gourreau in Les saisons de la danse , Paris

Founder of the collective "Vorgänge" (1982), who won with Lufus the second prize at the International Choreography Contest of Bagnolet in 1986. 1982 graduated with the studies in German language/literature + science of sports. Since 1991 teacher at the International Dance Weeks of Vienna, at the Ballet School of the Viennese State’s Opera, at the Brucknerkonservatorium Linz and at international workshops.

With the live-music-dance-production Materialien für Tanz & Musik international engagements - Biennale Val de Marne, Paris, Stuttgart, Luxemburg, Budapest, etc.
1991 international breakthrough with the duet Collision, a cooperation with the French choreographer Jean-Yves Ginoux - tours through Austria, France, Germany, Luxemburg, Egypt, Israel, Switzerland. 1992/93 commissioned choregraphic works for the Luxemburg Dance Company.
1992 beginning of the cooperation with the Austrian composer Peter Valentin. 1992 invitation for the international choreographic contest of Tel Aviv at Suzanne Dellal Center 1993 invitation for the international choreographic contest of Tokio.
The film Collision by Othmar Schmiderer wins the bronze medal at the New York Film Festival in 1994.

In 1993 Editta Braun is able to engage the French dance legend Jean Babilée for La Vie, c'est contagieux a French-Austrian co-production, premiered in Paris. The Austrian Filmmaker Wolfram Paulus documents the creative process.
Continues in 1994 her work with live-music: Voyage à Napoli, a rock & roll dance show, performed at SZENE-Festival Salzburg, at Mousonturm in Frankfurt, in Luxemburg, Belgium, Vienna, Linz, Innsbruck, and others.
1995-99 Editta Braun works with a historical theme - Sisi, Elisabeth of Austria: Titania tours throughout Europe: Austria, Slovakia, Luxemburg, France, Greece, Hungary, Germany, France and Egypt.
1995-99 short pieces for students of the ballet school of the Viennese State Opera and the students of the conservatory "Anton Bruckner" in Linz.
1996 begins collaboration with the composer-musician Thierry Zaboïtzeff: Heartbeat - concerto for dance & music, op. 1, a duet, and India - an intercontinental dance production between India and Europe, premiered in South India.
Miniaturen – dancepiece for 9 dancers, 3 musicians and 18 wintercoats, commissioned work by SZENE-Festival Salzburg for the opening Ceremony of Salzburgfestival 1999

is the Grande Dame of contemporary dance theatre 'Made in Salzburg'. For the past ten years we have been awed and touched by the stunning work of forty-two year old dancer and choreographer Editta Braun. Her curiously peeking behind the façades, her ability to luring the audience into a poetical parallel universe, with a boisterous and effervescent fantasy plus a wry and witty shot of social criticism here and there... " (Heidrun Hofstetter in tanz affiche)

Editta Braun, the Untamed Shrew.
More then ever, fter 15 years on stage, she is walking her own particular line. With a good dose of sympathetic stubborness and serenely unconcerned with actual fads and trendy hypes, the poetic substance of her work is quite a plausible argument against the meanwhile obviously commonly accepted disenchantment of the world. What declares itself to be a new kind of realism is indeed but one out of many possible esthetic constructions: the admittence of ones own sobering under the condition of technoid euophoria.

She is opposing the meshes of network of systemically legitimised constraints, that is gradually creeping into our everyday lives, by exposing herself to conditions of production on the 'outside' - the socalled third world.
Artistic productions and collaborations in India, Uzbekistan, Egypt or in Senegal: this is not just the experience of a reality 'outside' - it is also the bringing-back of these experiences into the increasingly hermetic space of our societies.
A space within which this other reality seems to exist but by way of the artificiality of estheticised metphors.

From 1996 onwards the creation of her pieces has been inseparably connected with the music of composer Thierry Zaboitzeff.
The company consists of a core group, and dancers or artists coming from other fields, who are contracted on a project basis. Editta Braun’s pieces are characterized by an expressive style, strongly influenced by theatre and performance, with humor and pathos often walking side by side, and are interwoven with elements showing a commitment to social criticism.
Serious craftmanship, intelligent precision and an osmotic exchange between composition and choreography are the creative breath of the dramaturgical, choreographic and dance process. The pieces are created by means of a combination of intense theme-oriented research (literature) as well as rehearsals with a psychological and autobiographical focus.