SCHULE@Im_flieger – INTENSIVE LAB // Luigi Guerrieri (IT/AT), Anita Kaya (AT), Laura Vilar (ES/AT), Josefina Zuain (AR)

Anita Kaya (AT) born 1961, is a freelance choreographer, performer and curator living in Vienna. Under the label OYA-Produktion (1988-2005) she created dance productions, site-specific performances, performative installations and dance videos that were presented internationally. In 2000, she initiated the artists for artists initiative Im_flieger – research laboratory for dance, performance and transmedia art (Concept funding from the City of Vienna 2022-25). In artistic direction and in collaboration with numerous artists and theoreticians, she develops new concepts and structures of artistic cooperation and mentoring programmes: e. g. the European residency programme for young choreographers TERRAINS FERTILES 05 (Innovation Prize 2005 of IG-Kultur Vienna). She is engaged with the body as a reservoir of individual and collective memory, and its potential for communication with the environment, the human and more than human: e. g. Translocations / One-to-One Performance located at the intersection of history/trauma, archiving, installation and performance. 2023 she cooperates with Theatercombinat/ Claudia Bosse as performer/ choreographer in the production Bones & Stones. In 2019/20 she completed the university course “Curating in the Scenic Arts” at the University of Salzburg and Munich. She is co-editor and author of the publication VISCERAL FICTION – Im_flieger schreibt Geschichte/s – 20 Jahre Künstler:innen für Künstler:innen. 2021, monocrom. www.imflieger.net, www.stffwchsl.net

Josefina Zuain (AR) is a dancer, writer, and art historian. She has studied modern techniques (Humphrey Technique), composition, and improvisation through somatic techniques (Feldenkrais, Eutony), stretching, and ballet for biomechanics (Gurquel Technique), among others. She has trained in Twerk and Sexy Style, Bounce, and Heels techniques in Madrid, Salamanca, Rome, and other cities. She coordinates writing workshops for artists and works as a consultant on projects related to art and related fields. She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Buenos Aires and in 2019 successfully completed her master’s degree in advanced studies in Art History at the University of Salamanca. She is currently developing her doctoral research at the University of Salamanca, examining historical dance documents from the medieval era alongside moral judgments and discourses that criticize Twerk. Her research explores the arguments used to justify the persecution of certain ways of dancing. She is the editorial director and creator of 2da En Papel Editora, a publishing house specializing in the dissemination, creation and distribution of content related to dance. In 2009, she created cuadernosdedanza.com.ar ISSN 22508708, a virtual platform that stores 14 years of writing about, on and from dance in archive format. @segundaenpapel, @josefina.zuain

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

Luigi Guerrieri (IT/AT) is a performance artist with a background in anthropology based in Vienna. His work focuses on the meeting point between movement, improvisation, and storytelling, combining academic, artistic and physical research. Luigi often questions strong enfleshed cultural concepts such as hegemonic masculinity or the dictatorship of well-being in FLOWERS. He loves to obsessively repeat common sayings like “son of a bitch” in DEINE MUTTER and to literally apply daily expressions like “to jump for joy” in BOUNCING JUMPING. Guerrieri’s ‘autoethnographic’ monologue POOR GUY humorously and light-heartedly performs the double-edged nature of self-discovery and self-promotion – ‘a narcissistic project that beats a narcissistic world at its own game.’ His works have been presented in venues as WUK Performing Arts, Theater am Werk or Schauspielhaus Wien/Impulstanz. Luigi takes care of his kids, sometimes writes a Blog, from time to time publishes short video-performances on Instagram and TikTok and occasionally works as a cook. www.luigiguerrieri.com