SCHULE@Im_flieger 2024 – PRESENTING IS NOT THE END, IT IS ONE OF THE PRACTICES OF THE RESEARCH

Anne Mégier (FR/AT/IT) is a dance performer, dance and movement pedagogue, Shiatsu practitioner, landscape whisperer, sustainability activist, sometimes translator, mother, grandmother. All these different understandings of being and dealing with life create the base of a research of movement as a dialogue with ourselves and our surroundings, as a surface of projection and materialization of this relationship and diverse languages. Authentic Movement and cognitive Trance are reliable partners for creative und personal hygiene processes. 2014 Founding member of KOLLEKTIV KLAUS, since then creation and performance of pieces and interventions for unconventional/ public places. Cooperations with different artists: Andreas Jähnert/Theater Mutante, Theatercombinat/Claudia Bosse, Doris Uhlich, Johanna Tatzgern/Goldfuss Unlimited, Elina Lautamäki, Bouchra Ouizgem, Nada Productions/Amanda Piña, Art in Process/Bello Benischauer, Mathilde Monnier.

Chiara Aprea (IT/AT) has always been fascinated by the potential of both verbal and non-verbal communication. For this reason, she moved from Naples to Vienna, where she completed a BA in Contemporary Dance at MUK and one in Transcultural Communication at ZTW. After finishing her dance studies, she was part of “Femenine” by Eva Maria Schaller and more recently of the Erasmus+ funded project “Exit the Room”, in the context of which she developed a short performance for young audiences in collaboration with other artists. Now, she’s pursuing an MA in Translation, while still deepening her dance practice and beginning to investigate ways to connect the two. She finds continuous inspiration in the idea of a body able to think and a mind able to move.

Flora Schauer (AT) is a musician and physiotherapist based in Vienna. She’s interested in Movement and Sounds of the immediate surrounding and the own body. Above all, her own voice and the variety of timbres, that flow into Flora’s music productions as a solo artist and singer of the band “Flunder”. As a physiotherapist she also works with Body and Sound, focusing on body awareness and the connection of somatic movement, breath work and voice.

Jess Cottee (UK/IE) has been dancing since she was a child. Her professional background is as a humanistic and integrative psychotherapist. For the past ten years she has been dancing butoh with masters including Masaki Iwana and Minako Seki, and in her own teaching and practice has been exploring combinations of imagination, the placement of attention, somatic awareness and movement that bring about shifts in internal states. She is the writer of Minako Seki’s upcoming book and recently completed the Seki Method Teacher Training Programme, for which she was also the writing assistant. In December 2022 she was dancer in residence at the first Hybrid Butoh Vienna Art Festival and in 2023 she was an ATLAS participant at ImpulsTanz Festival.

Laura Vilar (ES/AT) is a dancer, choreographer, teacher, and researcher, based in Vienna and Barcelona. She has a PhD degree from the Philosophy department at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona with an artistic research trough dance(s). She is Co-directing nunArt – artistic research center in Barcelona. She is teacher at the dance pedagogic department at the Institut del Teatre of Barcelona. She has been director of the Professional Training at Area Barcelona dance school from 2017 to 2021. She has taught nationally and internationally at several art centers such as: Bad Lemond’s profi training Münich, CODARTS Rotterdam, Saineb dance co Istanbul, Linz Anton Bruckner University, in Spain: Cobosmika seeds, nunArt Barcelona, Area, Varium, La Caldera; Back Pulver feedback training Vienna, Im_flieger Vienna, among others. She has danced in several companies as: Compagnie Taffanel based in Montpellier (2003-2010), Cobosmika company / Russell Maliphant (2006-2013) toured internationally, Hermanas de Castro, Trànsit (2000-2001), La Inconnexa 2002-2003, Lanònima Imperial (2004), Comediants, Salvatge cor (2006-2008) or Dance Theatre of Ireland (2010), a. o. Her latest works as a choreographer: Tentativas de (des)aparición (2022), #quéhayenelmundo (2021), Voyager (2019-2020), Sanjiao (2017). www.lauravilarblog.wordpress.com, www.guinardo.nunartbcn.com/en

Sarah Sternat (AT) was born in Graz in 1988 and lives in Vienna. She is a visual artist, costume and set designer. In 2022/2023 she completed a dance intensive for contemporary dance with Andrea Nagl. In 2015 she completed her studies in painting, tapestry and animation film with Christian L. Attersee and Judith Eisler at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna. In 2014 she founded the performance collective CLUB FORTUNA together with Xenia Lesniewski, Julia Rublow, Kurdwin Ayub and Nana Mandl. In 2020 she had a teaching position in the sculpture class at the Kunstuniversität Linz. Her works have been shown at Brut Wien in the performance Behind my four walls I call you my friend by Veza Fernandez (2022), at Kunsthaus Graz at the exhibition Body and Territory (2023) and at the exhibition MY EYES ARE GREEN CAUSE I EAT A LOT OF VEGETABLES, basement gallery Olomouc, CZ (2023), among others. Most recently she worked as costume and set designer for the production Purple Spheres by Mirjam Soegner, which premiered at Tanzfabrik Berlin in Oktober 2023.

Wanda Petri (DE/AT) born in 1989 in Kamp-Lintfort, lives and works as a dancer, choreographer, and dance educator in Vienna. Throughout her diverse training, she had the opportunity to view and learn dance from various perspectives. She earned her diploma in stage dance from the Zurich University of the Arts (ZHDK) and the Iwanson International School for Contemporary Dance in Munich. In 2018, she completed her academic degree in contemporary dance education at the Private University of the City of Vienna (MUK). After her studies, she worked as a director’s assistant for the schallundrauch agency in the production “Große Sachen” at Dschungel Wien. Additionally, she collaborated with Magdalena Forster on projects such as “Cloud Music,” “CARUIN,” and “Blob.” Blob is an event series for performance art that combines dance, sound, and performance in a club setting, blurring the boundaries between the audience and the performers. Since June 2023, Wanda Petri is a mother of two children and is currently working on a solo performance.