Projects

Students from Institute 13 of the mdw will present an improvisation that starts from certain basic assumptions of 4E cognition. We are exploring and will present music as movement that is perceived in a multi-sensory way. The relations between body movements/dance and sound movements will be drawn systematically, and will show ‘interactional asymmetry’. Our performance will be about interactions that take us into new musical terrain and a meaningfulness that primarily arises through the sensitizing of perception on the basis of conceptual understanding. I work as leader of this project together with Prof. Stephanie Schroedter.

This open-ended project focused on collaborative experiences and research under the guidance of Prof. Stephanie Schroedter. About twenty students from the mdw and the University for applied Arts (Vienna) explored music, movement and textiles in combination with inputs from performance art, design, and interactive technology. One of the main aspects of the project were the movement workshops presented by Ingrid Gappmeier, Ingo Reulecke and Eva Maria Schaller. I worked as assistant in the organisation, and as improvisor in music and movement.

I worked as choreographic assistant for Elisabeth Orlowsky who choreographed the Serenata and Tarantella from Stravinsky’s Suite Italienne for violin and piano. The choreography of the Tarantella was performed by a trio of movement artists: Aleksandr Okhotnikov, Hongshan Bi and Theresa Kanak (with a short appearance by Xavier Duntze – who performed a solo for the Serenata).

Where, when and how are the changes to our planet be expressed? How will the expression sound? Five students of the Department of Music and Movement Education/Rhythmics of the University of Music and performing Arts Vienna (under the guidance of Milly Groz) presented improvisations inspired by an art exposition that formed part of the Klima Biennale Wien 2024.

I worked as choreographer for the first piece on the programme (Reflejos Distantes by Karola Obermüller) and as movement artist in three more performances.

The transdisciplinary project KORZINTHIO combined music and movement to create a multisensory experience for the participating artists (almost twenty students and three lecturers at the University of Music and performing Arts Vienna) and the audience. The exchange between different disciplines created new perspectives and inspired participants to go beyond the boundaries of traditional artistic practices. KORZINTHIO explored the music of female composers from the Middle Ages, the Renaissance and our time.

Students and lecturers from the mdw worked with the music of seven female composers who were persecuted by the Nazi’s and whose work and names were almost forgotten. The aim of the project was to present the wide stylistic range of the compositions, and to encourage musicians to present the works more often. Students from our institute for music and movement education worked on two contrasting compositions and in contrasting ways under the guidance of Irmgard Bankl. My roles took as foundations my analyses of the compositions and my responsibility for structuring parts of the rehearsals based on the experiences of the group of movement artists. For Rêverie for piano by Germain Taillefaire we developed a concept for a structured movement improvisation that took as its basic inspiration the common denominators of our experiences of opposing forces in the music. For the third movement of Trialogues by Wally Weigl (for flute, viola and harp), we developed a choreography in the tradition of plastique animé. Our aim with this choreography were to clarify the tonal and thematic processes of the composition.

Movement artist and choreographer

Our performance opened a long concert that highlighted the work of the pedagogical institutes at the mdw. Students from our institute under the guidance of Prof Meike Schmitz developed choreographies for Circusmuziek by Ton der Doest for Woodwind Quintet – performed live. To accompany the music of the seventh movement, I developed a concept for a movement improvisation with materials by the whole movement ensemble – a multicoloured cloth and a variety of balls. My aim was to present three of the four means of RhythmicsMM in a playful way: music, movement, and materials.