Dagmar Dachauer (AT)

Dagmar Dachauer is a freelance dancer, choreographer, and dance teacher born in Linz and founder of the art association UMFUG. She studied dance at the Amsterdamse Hogeschool voor de Kunsten/MTD (BA), at P.A.R.T.S. (Performing Arts Research and Training Studios) in Brussels and handbalance at the Circus Department of DOCH (Dance and Circus University) in Stockholm.
As a freelance performer, Dagmar has worked with Dance/Performance Group T.r.a.s.h, Luke Baio and Dominik Grünbühel, Kevin Trappeniers and Florence Augendre.

In 2014, Dagmar won the DIORAPHTE Encouragement Award in the Debuts section, one of two jury-prizes at the Cinedans Festival, Amsterdam, for her dance film Treeo. She managed and co-directed the art festival spiel in Austria from 2009 to 2012. In 2015, she co-curated Secret Hotel’s Landscape Dialogues Summer Lab in Mols/ Denmark.

Dagmar has been Artist in Residence and first ‘Stadttänzerin’ at kulturRaum Klagenfurt, where she developped her first solo work Wunderbare Jahre which premiered at the Plesni Teater Ljubljana in 2015.

www.dagmardachauer.com