videostill: sonja browne
i am a dancer, choreographer and teacher.
i studied ballet, modern dance, tap dance, acting and singing in private education programmes and social work between 1996 and 1999.
i am a spiraldynamik practitioner level basic and i have studied non violent communication with christian rüther
i danced with a.o. editta braun, willi dorner, hubert lepka, olivier gelpe and worked as intern with amici (uk) and theater stap (be).
in 1999 i founded the company danse brute, in which a diverse group of dancers creates performances in a collective way.
in 2006 i founded the dance company tanzmontage.balance.
since 1999 i teach dance and improvisation at a.o. impulstanz, ostertanztage salzburg (at) and tanztage würzburg (de).
in 2019 i finished my master thesis at the university of applied art of vienna: “NO to spectacle no to virtuosity no to ableism. wie inklusive praxis den zeitgenössischen tanz bereichert” [how inclusive practice enriches contemporary dance]. at the moment i study theatre, film and media studies at the university of vienna.
since november 2020, it is a great pleasure for me to collaborate with dr. andrea amort, from 2023 on at the Theatermuseum Wien