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Eva-Maria Schaller is a freelance dancer, choreographer and teacher from Vienna, where she began her training at the ballet school of the Vienna State Opera. She continued her studies in contemporary dance at Codarts Rotterdam and graduated in 2023 with a Master’s degree in New Performative Practices from Stockholm University of the Arts.
In her work, she deals with dance heritage and history (especially the Austrian dance heritage of modernism), with transmission and embodied memory as a dance practice. Solo and group works include Vestris 4.0 (2018), Recalling Her Dance – a choreographic encounter with Hanna Berger (2021), What we hold inside (2019), Mist and magic (2023), and Femenine (2022); most recently, the piece O! A Biography was shown in collaboration with composer Matthias Kranebitter and the Black Page Orchestra as well as the dance course at MUK Wien as part of Wien Modern 2024 in co-production with Tanzquartier Wien.
As a dancer, she has worked with Emio Greco|PC and Anouk van Dijk in the Netherlands and with Christine Gaigg, Georg Blaschke, Liz King, Willi Dorner, Nikolaus Adler, Sabine Glenz/Munich Philharmonic Orchestra and dance scholar Andrea Amort in Germany and Austria. The Jahrbuch Tanz (Berlin) selected her as one of the “Hoffnungsträgerinnen 2019”.
She teaches Countertechnique and shares her artistic practice in professional dance education programmes and for dance companies throughout Europe; she is also a guest lecturer at MUK Wien.
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