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Ian Kaler is a choreographer, contemporary dancer, filmmaker and performer. He studied Transmedial Art with Brigitte Kowanz at the University of Applied Arts Vienna and completed the pilot study programme BA Contemporary Dance, Context, Choreography at the Inter-University Centre for Dance (HZT) at the University of the Arts Berlin. Kaler holds an MA in Filmmaking (Directing Fiction) from Goldsmiths, University of London. Since 2010, he has been developing his physical and creative practice in choreographic series in exchange with various artists through different (audio-visual) media.
Kaler develops interdisciplinary stage and video works in collaboration with long-time companions. His choreographic works and stage pieces have been performed nationally and internationally at ImPulsTanz – Vienna International Dance Festival, Tanzquartier Wien, Festspielhaus St. Pölten, Szene Salzburg, Hebbel am Ufer (HAU) Berlin, Tanzfabrik Berlin, Sophiensaele Berlin, Uferstudios Berlin, Mousonturm Frankfurt, PACT Zollverein Essen, Schwankhalle Bremen, Tanzwerkstatt Europa München, Schauspiel Leipzig, Hellerau Dresden, Berghain Berlin, STUK Leuven, Dansens Hus Stockholm, Norrlansoperan Umea, Southbank London, Side Step Festival Helsinki and the National Theatre Bucharest. Outside Europe, he has toured works in Mexico and Colombia.
Current collaborations with electronic music producer rRoxymore, editor and video designer Dafne Narvaez Berlfein and set designer Stephanie Rauch include the stage and film version of POINTS OF DEPARTURE (2021, premiere at ImPulsTanz) and the video installation series Sentient Beings (2022-24).
Kaler’s first narrative short film Grafting Self premiered at the BFI Flare at the Southbank in London in 2023. The world premiere of ON THE CUSP, Kaler’s first choreography for 16 dancers from the Cullberg Ballet, took place at Tanzquartier Wien in 2019.
At the same time, Kaler worked as choreographic director and performer with music producer Planningtorock on their musical show Powerhouse, which premiered at Berghain in Berlin in May 2019. From 2015 to 2019, Kaler also developed the choreographic series o.T.; the second part of the series, (gateways to movement), was shown at the dance platform at Frankfurt LAB in 2016. The choreographic video installation Me becoming myself (unfinished) premiered in the frame of ImPulsTanz at the Leopold Museum Wien in 2016.
Ian Kaler develops workshops as research formats analogue to his choreographic series and gives national and international workshops for participants with “mixed abilities”, for example at ImPulsTanz, Tanzquartier Wien, Tanzwerkstatt Europa München, PACT Zollverein Essen, DOCH School for Dance and Circus Stockholm as well as for the Escuela Profesional de Danza in Mazatlán and the University of Sonora in Mexico.
He taught the final year of the Contemporary and Classical Dance programme at the Music and Arts University of Vienna (MUK) in 2021/22 and developed the graduation piece Upcycling with the students.
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