Inge Gappmaier is a choreographer, dancer, dance-pedagog, dramaturge and researcher based in Vienna. The reflection of the contemporary self-conception of the human body between poetry, technology, historical developments and socio-political structures is at the center of her work. She articulates these themes through various stage settings, dance, performance, installations as well as digital formats.

The immersive dance performance NOW and the duet with herself, PROTECT. there is no wind in geometrical worlds premiered most recently at brut Vienna.

For me, creating art is not only the articulation of a subjective aesthetic, but above all a negotiation of deep-rooted social phenomena and the testing of social systems, forms of living, working and creating together.

She studied Choreography and Performance at the Institute of Applied Theatre Studies in Gießen, as well as Contemporary Dance Education at Music and Arts University of the City of Vienna with an Erasmus Scholarship at DOCH Stockholm. Received various scholarships, including the DanceWEB scholarship at the ImPulsTanz festival as well as an annual federal research scholarship, publishes articles, teaches laypersons as well as professionals and is engaged with cultural politics.

Artistic engagements and collaborations with a.o. with brut Wien, KubusEXPORT, Lebendiges Tanzarchiv Wien, Plesni Teater Ljubljana, Albanian Dance Meeting, Kosmos Theater Wien, Tanzhafenfestival Linz, KoresponDance Festival and Novi Ganz Zagreb.

Read more about Inge Gappmaier here.
 

During her residency, Inge Gappmaier is going to develop a first articulation of City of Bodiless (German: Stadt der Körperlosen) – an immersive dance performance inspired by José Saramago’s novel Blindness (Stadt der Blinden). Like Saramago’s ‘white blindness’, which strips society of empathy, “with this work I aim to explore the dynamics emerging from a devaluation of physical presence in favor of digital disembodiment.”