Fri–Sun 29.–31.5.2026 // 14.00–18.00
as part of Independent Space Index Festival 2026
Fri–Sun 29.–31.5.2026 // 14.00–18.00
Bräuhausgasse 40, 1050 Vienna // pay as you wish // snacks & drinks
As part of Independent Space Index 2026 – Festival of independent art spaces in Vienna
With Jackson Carroll, Ariathney Coyne, Bianca Figl & Sasha Portyannikova, Andrea Gunnlaugsdottír, Sunggu Hong, Masoumeh Jalalieh, Kilian Jörg & Alexis Shotwell, Alireza Khosroabadi, Sara Lanner, Johanna Nielson & Marina Poleukhina, Sveta Schwin, Laura Vilar & SCHULE@Im_flieger 2026: Annelie Andre, Natalie Campbell, Ariathney Coyne, Luisa Pisetta Ravanelli, Sasha Portyannikova, Hannah Zauner
We celebrate the lightness of failure. We contemplate the distinction between the traditional and contemporary arts. We unveil the story of a love letter and its disappearance. We create a collective composition of moving bodies, spoken texts and everything in between. We turn problems into poetry, capturing the quiet wounds of everyday confrontation. We transcend the porous line between inside and outside – how much of the world can a body bear? We speculate about more inclusive forms of morals to build a more open and resisting society. We struggle with feelings of alienation and strangeness. We explore the (non-)contact of two sides. We walk between two continents. We are translating everything while a kiwi (the fruit) is having its hair cut. We listen to the quiet negotiation between body and boundary, presence and absence, memory and the imprint it leaves behind.
Artists and team members of Im_flieger of the year 2026 got invited to share their artistic practices, performances, and other formats. 19 artists replied with different contributions. This 3-day program is inviting visitors to participate in or witness a variety of body-based practices and workshops, and to experience performances, installations and hybrid formats.
Detailed program:
Fri 29.5. – Sun 31.5.2026
14.00–18.00 // unfolding lines // Masoumeh Jalalieh (IR/AT) // Short film, 10’ (Loop)
unfolding lines is a short dance film shaped in the final days before my departure from Iran. It follows a personal movement research formed by the tension between visible and invisible, inside and outside, the shifting architectures that hold, press, and quietly reshape the body. The work reflects on how we continually try to fit ourselves into spaces, physical, emotional, and imagined. The moment we settle, a frame rises around us. These frames mold our bodies and our thoughts; they remain suspended in the air long after we have stepped away. From the traces of these invisible lines, the ones that meet, cross, and lean against the surfaces of the frame, new forms and subtle articulations unfold. The film listens to this quiet negotiation between body and boundary, presence and absence, memory and the imprint it leaves behind.
14.00–18.00 // Scores in transit // Alireza Khosroabadi (IR/AT) // Performance documentation, 10’ (Loop)
A walk between two continents: from Europe to Asia, from Vienna to Tehran, from Bräuhausgasse 40 to Golha Square. This series of scores presents a performance titled A Biography, inspired by a journey of memory and imagination that takes place in the mind of an immigrant artist.
Friday 29.5. / DAY 1
14.00–14.20 // And Now // Johanna Nielson (AT) & Marina Poleukhina (AT) // Performance, 20’
And Now is a poetic music and dance performance, a space for the unplanned and the magic of togetherness – here and now. The two artists transform the stage into a playground for the encounter of voices and movements and celebrate the lightness of failure and the fragility of moments that nevertheless create powerful, touching experiences. And Now is a continuous exploration of sound, movement and interaction in real time, in which the performers and the audience come together – in absurdity, failure, joy and amazement.
14.45–15.30 // Peacock and Swan walk into a bar // Bianca Figl (AT/ID), Sasha Portyannikova (AT/RU) // Workshop, 45‘
A performative workshop that introduces the Aesopian dance language strategies and codified resistance techniques in forms perceived and labeled as traditional. Bianca and Sasha will share insights into the domestic contexts and meanings of canonical dance practices, while inviting audiences to contemplate the distinction between the traditional and contemporary arts.
15.45–16.05 // love letters (in flight) // Ariathney Coyne (GR/AT) // Performance, 20’
love letters (in flight) is an ever-in-progress performance driven by movement, language, and audiovisuals. With two voices, yet one body, the performer’s inner dialogue becomes audible and unravels the story of a love letter and its disappearance, revealing a playful documentation of what it feels like to be a person. Dance, comedic conversations, melancholic melodies and visuals are collaged together to present a collection of love letters. Love letters (in a deep space).
16.30–17.00 // Over and over again. // SCHULE@Im_flieger 2026 // Performance, 30’
The SCHULE@Im_flieger 2026 artists invite you to a collective composition. An experimental score of moving bodies, spoken texts and everything in between. In the frame of the SCHULE program, the group of artists has been collecting texts, images, impressions and more through a digital logbook. During the performative happening the participants will be sharing these texts, and shaping the space through their bodies. Audience members are welcome to join, through observation, movement, or reading texts from the collective logbook.
17.30–17.50 // Mama du bist eh nur ein Geringverdiener // Andrea Gunnlaugsdóttir (IS/AT) // Performance reading, 20’
A performance reading built from real-life dialogue between parent and teenager where problems are turned into poetry, capturing the quiet wounds of everyday confrontation.
Saturday 30.5. / DAY 2
14.00–14.35 // KLУNP [ˈklunp] // Sveta Schwin (RU/AT) // Performance, 35’
As KLУNP, Sveta Schwin encounters an Other that emerges from her actions. The self: origin and echo. Paper is the seam between doing and understanding. In milky white, the familiar tilts into the strange, becoming possibility. In the astonished gaze, the self transcends itself. A performance about invention and recognition, about the porous line between inside and outside — and about how much of the world a body can bear.
15.00–16.30 // An Ecology of Moralizing // Kilian Jörg (AT) & Alexis Shotwell (CA) // Workshop, 90’
How do you feel about moralizing? Have you ever felt a certain need to say something – but then you didn’t dare to speak up for your values, because … it didn’t feel proper? Felt like overstepping boundaries because … you don’t want to be moralizing? In this workshop, we want to explore with you, why and how that is. We want to stay with the cringyness of moralizing impulses and explore what somatically happens inside of us, between us and around us if we moralize – or decide not to. We want to speculate about more inclusive forms of morals (the etymological root of morals meaning something like “customs”) together to build a more open and resisting society in times of rising fascism and moral depravity of the capitalist elite.
16.45–17.05 // State Funded Piece of Meat // Jackson Carroll (CA/AT) // Performance, 20’
State Funded Piece of Meat was meant to be a satirical look at Austria’s immigration politics told through a solo dance performance with stand-up comedy. That would have been a very poignant performance piece! I’m not sure what the piece is at this point. The process has been unpredictable and is very much ongoing, subverting its own cause while somehow managing to maintain contact with its original intention. Through the lens of my own personal experiences with Austria’s immigration office MA 35, and by exploring meeting points between dance, semantics, and comedy, these become portals to share in the experience of being a “foreign” body in Austria. State Funded Piece of Meat still struggles to deal with the absurdity of immigration politics as well as general feelings of alienation and “strange”ness.
17.25–18.00 // BIRDS OF THE <ZWISCHENLAGER> // Sara Lanner (AT) // Short film (2025), 35’
Along the former border of the Iron Curtain, BIRDS OF THE <INTERMEDIATE CAMP> explores how, between the (non-)contact of two sides, people, or countries, a space emerges that, for periods ranging from seconds to centuries, offers room for a path, a bridge, or shared lingering and experience.
The performance leads the viewer’s gaze behind the birdwatching platforms of the March-Thaya floodplain and, furthermore, places Sara Lanner’s performative-material practice on the theme of “infrastructure” in dialogue with Ilona Németh’s sculpture Grandstand 8, Greetings from Ringelsdorf-Niederabsdorf for Bruce Nauman (2022) and its surroundings.
(A production by Living Examples. With the kind support of Kunst im öffentlichen Raum Niederösterreich, the Federal Ministry of Housing, Arts, Culture, Media and Sport, and the Cultural Department of the City of Vienna.)
Sunday 31.5. / DAY 3
14.00 // Plastique Chords // Sasha Portyannikova (AT/RU) // Workshop
Since 2015, Sasha Portyannikova has been researching little-known archives of early Soviet dance experiments. The results of this research have taken shape in public labs, multimedia performances, and a book titled “The Manual for the Practical Use of a Dance Archive”. In this workshop (open level), practical tools for dance improvisation inspired by archival materials will be shared.
15.45–16.15 // Scores in transit // Alireza Khosroabadi (IR/AT) // Book presentation/video, 30’
A walk between two continents: from Europe to Asia, from Vienna to Tehran, from Bräuhausgasse 40 to Golha Square. This series of scores presents a performance titled A Biography, inspired by a journey of memory and imagination that takes place in the mind of an immigrant artist.
16.45–17.15 // trans-lateness // Sunggu Hong (KR/AT) // Performance, 30’
I will translate everything into something else (as you wish: drawing, sculpture, movement, etc.) while giving a haircut to a Kiwi (the fruit). If you need anything for inspiration – for your work or everyday life – feel free to come by with anything (a thought, object, movement, …). But we will always be late.
17.30–17.40 // unfolding lines // Masoumeh Jalalieh (IR/AT) // Short film, 10’
unfolding lines is a short dance film shaped in the final days before my departure from Iran. It follows a personal movement research formed by the tension between visible and invisible, inside and outside, the shifting architectures that hold, press, and quietly reshape the body. The work reflects on how we continually try to fit ourselves into spaces, physical, emotional, and imagined. The moment we settle, a frame rises around us. These frames mold our bodies and our thoughts; they remain suspended in the air long after we have stepped away. From the traces of these invisible lines, the ones that meet, cross, and lean against the surfaces of the frame, new forms and subtle articulations unfold. The film listens to this quiet negotiation between body and boundary, presence and absence, memory and the imprint it leaves behind.
Subject to change
Alexis Shotwell (CA) is a Canadian philosopher, activist and professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Carleton University in Ottawa. She works in social philosophy, political theory, and feminist philosophy, especially on questions of moral complicity. Her academic work addresses environmental justice, racial formation, disability, unspeakable and unspoken knowledge, sexuality, gender, and political transformation. She is the author of Knowing Otherwise: Race, Gender, and Implicit Understanding (Penn State Press, 2011) and Against Purity: Living Ethically in Compromised Times (Minnesota University Press, 2016). She has published a. o. in Signs, Hypatia, The International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics and Sociological Theory. As activist she is part of the punchupcollective. Her political work focuses on queer liberation, Indigenous solidarity and decolonization, and feminist community education. www.punchupcollective.org
Alireza Khosroabadi (IR/AT) is an Iranian, Vienna-based theater maker, interdisciplinary artist, and choreographer. He is interested in exploring the liminal space between performance, choreography, and theatre by blurring the line between them. His practice takes many forms, from stage performances to public interventions and everyday-life scores, often addressing socio-political issues. Over time, Khosroabadi’s work has focused more on re-contextualizing theatre and sites as shared spaces for collective thinking. He often uses playful exploration of liveliness and truth, and engages with the singular and collective identities of performers on stage, politicizing identity. Since moving to Austria, he has especially explored themes of societal dynamics, otherness, and multilingualism. www.alireza-khosroabadi.com
Andrea Gunnlaugsdóttir (IS/AT) born in Reykjavík, Iceland, is a dancer and choreographer living in Vienna. In both independent and collaborative constellations her works move along the intersection of dance and performance, sometimes seeking formats beyond the stage. Her latest work CUMULUS in collaboration with artist Claudia Lomoschitz recently toured in Austria and Iceland and will soon be traveling to Norway. Andrea has collaborated with many Vienna based artists such as Doris Uhlich, Alix Eynaudi, Andrea Maurer, Veza Fernandes a.o. Next she will be stepping on stage in brut Wien in the work of choreographer Sara Lanner. Andrea has juggled co-parenting of two kids alongside her artistic career from the start, gaining some experience in feeling a lot of FOMO.
Annelie Andre (AT) completed her MA in Choreography at the HZT Berlin in 2018. Previously, she studied Contemporary Dance Pedagogy at the MUK in Vienna. In 2020, she received a Startstipendium (BMKÖS) and in 2021 a residency at Künstlerhaus Lukas/Ahrenshoop, Tanzrecherche NRW, and the DIS-TANZEN solo grant. She was part of the international exchange program “Crushing Borders” Geneva 2021 (residency grant from the BMKÖS) and a lecturer at the HZT Berlin (2021 & 2022). In August 2022, her group piece “Archives of Collapse” premiered at Uferstudio 14 in Berlin. In 2023, Andre worked as a performer for the SINT collective and MS Schrittmacher, choreographed a piece for 24 dancers of the Bildungsjahr Tanz (SENECA), and taught in various contexts. 2024 & 2025: Choreography for the graduating class at the MUK Vienna and various teaching activities including Festspielhaus St. Pölten. www.annelieandre.com
Ariathney Coyne (GR/AT) is a Vienna-based artist and teacher moving fluidly between performance, dance, and audiovisual art. Originally a trained neuroscientist, she went on to study contemporary dance and media arts in Linz and Berlin. She thrives in research-driven environments and is committed to curiosity, improvisation, and the subtle art of failing/learning. Her works combine movement, filmmaking, sound, and language to approach critical, humorous or sensuous glimpses of our shared realities.
Bianca Figl (AT/ID) combines research and artistic practice in collaborative projects situated at the intersections of dance, archives, education, and decolonial inquiry. Her artistic work weaves Indonesian dance forms with contemporary questions of memory, embodied knowledge, and colonial histories, critically engaging with the body as an active and dynamic archive. From 2012 to 2020, she worked at the Weltmuseum Wien during its major reconstruction phase, contributing to programme development, outreach, and exhibition-making, with a particular emphasis on participatory curatorial strategies. She completed a PhD in Arts Practice Research at the University of Limerick (Ireland), where her research investigated alternative approaches to knowledge production and the politics of representation in embodied archives. Figl lectures at the University of Vienna in museum and education studies and serves as a visiting researcher and guest lecturer at the Institute of the Arts (ISI) Surakarta, Indonesia.
Bianca Figl (AT/ID) combines research and artistic practice in collaborative projects situated at the intersections of dance, archives, education, and decolonial inquiry. Her artistic work weaves Indonesian dance forms with contemporary questions of memory, embodied knowledge, and colonial histories, critically engaging with the body as an active and dynamic archive. From 2012 to 2020, she worked at the Weltmuseum Wien during its major reconstruction phase, contributing to programme development, outreach, and exhibition-making, with a particular emphasis on participatory curatorial strategies. She completed a PhD in Arts Practice Research at the University of Limerick (Ireland), where her research investigated alternative approaches to knowledge production and the politics of representation in embodied archives. Figl lectures at the University of Vienna in museum and education studies and serves as a visiting researcher and guest lecturer at the Institute of the Arts (ISI) Surakarta, Indonesia.
Hannah Zauner (AT) works as a dancer and choreographer for film, theater, and performance, as well as an assistant director with productions at Theater am Werk, Theater Drachengasse, Dschungel Wien and others. She is part of the performance group Kollektiv Klaus and stages her own productions, including PHANTOM, with performances at Theater Arche, Off-Theater, etc. Zauner studied cultural and social anthropology and completed training in contemporary dance and choreography (La Faktoria, Pera & Seneca Intensive).
Jackson Carroll (CA/AT) is a Canadian dance artist currently based in Vienna. After an extensive career as a dancer for classical institutions internationally, most recently the Vienna State Ballet, Jackson has now shifted his focus elsewhere. He is a frequent collaborator of Chris Haring at Liquid Loft, as well as teaching regularly at TanzQuartier Wien. He also worked as choreographer for David Schalko’s “Braunschlag 1986”. In addition to his dance practice, Jackson occasionally performs stand-up comedy and produces DIY films under the pseudonym Anus Varda.
Johanna Nielson (AT) is (also) a dance and performance artist, who lives and works in Vienna. Her artistic practice involves dance, voice and improvisation with a focus on phenomena of the sensual and sense-able. In collaboration with Agnes Schneidewind she made a series of performative experiments (AH I SEE) dealing with mechanisms of translation and perception. Johanna explores the interplay of (experimental) music and dance with such artists as Tobias Leibetseder, Marina Poleukhina and Stefan Voglsinger. She performed with luxflux, Arne Mannott, Alexander Chernishkov/Error Theater, Evandro Pedroni, Oleg Soulimenko, and many more. www.johannanielson.com
Kilian Jörg (AT) works both artistically and philosophically on the topic of ecological catastrophe and how its transformative forces can best be imagined and deployed. Previous publications have been on club culture, the political backlash from an ecological perspective, cultivating distance in catastrophic times and a speculative religion of waste. His current research topics are the car as a metaphor for our toxic entanglements with modern lifestyles (released in book form as “Das Auto und die ökologische Katastrophe” in September 2024), the socio-psychological effects of living with ecocide and radical activist strategies of reclaiming land like the ZAD in France. He is working with the Futurama.Lab at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and is affiliated to the SFB Affective Societies at the FU Berlin. www.kilianj.org & www.kilianjoerg.blogspot.com
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.nunartbcn.com
Luisa Pisetta Ravanelli (Luis Pira) (IT/AT) is a performance artist and researcher whose work interrogates the language of human rights and explores how discrimination is addressed across diverse fields, from international law to house dance and even soccer. Autobiographical archives weave intimate obsessions into politically dense discourses. She was part of the research project ‘Towards The Realm of Materiality’ (Nero Edition, 2024) and was a recipient of the danceWEB Scholarship Programme at ImPulsTanz 2024. Her work has been presented at Lake Studios Berlin (DE), Brunnenpassage (AT), Klangraum Krems (AT), NEU radio (IT), and in public spaces. www.luisapisettaravanelli.com
Masoumeh Jalalieh (IR/AT) is an Iranian choreographer, performer, and dancer based in Vienna. Her artistic practice explores the intersections of movement, ritual, and embodied knowledge, engaging with themes of cultural memory and political resistance. She has created works, including B-or der, Time Paranoia, Decline, Bish az pish, and Carpet of Time, which have been presented at venues such as Sophiensæle Berlin, STUK Leuven, Kaaistudios, Les Brigittines Brussels, Pasinger Fabrik Munich, and WUK Vienna. Jalalieh has collaborated with artists such as Hooman Sharifi, Bára Sigfúsdóttir, Robert Steijn, Peter Jasko, and Daniel Zimmermann, and has led workshops at ImPulsTanz and Tanzquartier Wien. From 2017 to 2020, she was a principal performer with Jan Martens’ GRIP company and toured with Bára Sigfúsdóttir’s piece being across Europe and Iran. She has received grants, including the Startstipendium for Performing Arts Vienna and Danceweb. In 2023, she founded the association Carpet of Time and began curating the festival Cook, Eat, and Clean. Her long-term project and research Carpet of Time continued through residencies at Leveld (Norway), Tanzhaus Zürich, and ALDES! (Italy) in 2025. www.omaartstudio.ir
Masoumeh Jalalieh (IR/AT) is an Iranian choreographer, performer, and dancer based in Vienna. Her artistic practice explores the intersections of movement, ritual, and embodied knowledge, engaging with themes of cultural memory and political resistance. She has created works, including B-or der, Time Paranoia, Decline, Bish az pish, and Carpet of Time, which have been presented at venues such as Sophiensæle Berlin, STUK Leuven, Kaaistudios, Les Brigittines Brussels, Pasinger Fabrik Munich, and WUK Vienna. Jalalieh has collaborated with artists such as Hooman Sharifi, Bára Sigfúsdóttir, Robert Steijn, Peter Jasko, and Daniel Zimmermann, and has led workshops at ImPulsTanz and Tanzquartier Wien. From 2017 to 2020, she was a principal performer with Jan Martens’ GRIP company and toured with Bára Sigfúsdóttir’s piece being across Europe and Iran. She has received grants, including the Startstipendium for Performing Arts Vienna and Danceweb. In 2023, she founded the association Carpet of Time and began curating the festival Cook, Eat, and Clean. Her long-term project and research Carpet of Time continued through residencies at Leveld (Norway), Tanzhaus Zürich, and ALDES! (Italy) in 2025. www.omaartstudio.ir
Natalie Campbell (AT) is a transdisciplinary freelance artist working at the intersection of movement and text-based art, based in Vienna. For over a decade, she has been researching, teaching, and studying dance in its various forms – deeply inspired by the lens of Axis Syllabus, Contact Improvisation and somatic approaches to movement. Alongside she works as a writer, published two solo publications through text/rahmen publishing and short stories in literary magazines and plays with different formats of performing text on stage. Her current projects include DONAUSTADT (Verein hydro_, premiere October 2025, Dschungel Wien), as writer and director, collaborations with Tanz*Hotel/Bert Gstettner, (ZWISCHEN ZWIEBELN, FRAG*MENTE LIEBE) as a dancer and choreographer as well as assisting Gregory Chevalier in the somatic-contact-improvisation group KITEnsemble Vienna. She teaches at festivals like ImPulsTanz in the formats Shake the Break and Public Moves and performed for example in Vienna with Kollektiv Klaus and in Portugal with Sofia Brito. Currently she studies a MA in Creative Writing (Uni Klagenfurt) and in the Teachers Track of Movement Artisans (Berlin).
Sara Lanner (AT) (*1991) is a choreographer and visual artist based in Vienna. In her work she deals with questions of cultural and (body) linguistic identity and explores spaces between trust and dependency. The ambivalences of interpersonal relationships and their points of contact as well as our material and ecological realities form the beginnings of her artistic reflections. Most recently, her dance performance WEAVING INFRASTRUCTURES (2024) was shown at brut Wien and Mining Minds (2022) at the ImPulsTanz Festival. For her work MINE (2021), Sara Lanner was awarded the H13 Lower Austria Prize for Performance. Further presentations: Tanzquartier Wien, Kunstraum Niederösterreich, Galerie 5020 Salzburg, Neue Galerie/BRUSEUM Graz, MIPAF Macau/China, HART Haus Hongkong, Künstlerhaus Nürnberg, OK Offenes Kulturhaus Linz, among others. www.saralanner.com
Sasha Portyannikova (RU/AT) is a white able-bodied dance artist born in the Soviet Union, raised in Moscow, living and working in Berlin and New York, currently based in Vienna. She graduated from the Vaganova Ballet Academy (MA, 2013), co-founded the dance cooperative Isadorino Gore with Dasha Plokhova in 2012, became a Fulbright Visiting Scholar in 2018, and has been curating Touching Margins with Nitsan Margaliot and Anna Chwialkowska since 2020. As a dance artist, Sasha Portyannikova has worked across Europe, and the USA. She has collaborated with organizations such as Amnesty International, ZKM, ITI Berlin, SDVIG, Hellerau, and Garage MCA, where she created an opening for the Louise Bourgeois exhibition. Sasha authored the Manual for the Practical Use of a Dance Archive in collaboration with Dasha Plokhova. Her research and curatorial interests center on exploring diverse dance histories and the complex interplay of cultures and politics. www.sashaportyannikova.com
Sunggu Hong (KR/AT) is a Vienna-based, Korean artist. Sunggu works with simple questions and his curiosity which comes up in daily life. The questions seem simple, childish, sometimes nonsense at first, but they are metaphorically related to our life and social issues. ‘Relation’ is a main word which he uses for his perspective-tool to keep reacting to his questions.
Sveta Schwin (RU/AT) born in Siberia in 1984, living in Vienna since 2007. Studied performing arts in Bremen and theater, film, and media studies as well as philosophy in Vienna. Schwin writes and directs plays for children, teenagers, and adults (Dschungel Wien, Konzerthaus, Theater Spielraum, Kabelwerk, among others) and works as a light designer, primarily on dance and performance productions. She creates her own light objects and installations. www.svetaschwin.at