About

Annelie Andre (AT) completed her MA in Choreography at the HZT Berlin in 2018. Prior to that, she studied Contemporary Dance Pedagogy at the MUK in Vienna. In 2020 she received the Start Scholarship from the BMKÖS, followed in 2021 by a residency scholarship at Künstlerhaus Lukas in Ahrenshoop, the Tanzrecherche NRW grant, and the DIS-TANZEN Solo funding. She was part of the international network “Crushing Borders” in Geneva in 2021 (residency funding from BMKÖS) and served as a guest lecturer at HZT Berlin (2021 & 2022). In August 2022, her group work Archives of Collapse premiered at Uferstudio 14 in Berlin. In 2023 she collaborated with Ulduz Ahmadzadeh on the piece Ancestors’ Banquet (Brut Vienna) and was Outside Eye for Olivia Hild’s work melt (WUK). In the same year she worked as a performer for the SINT collective and MS Schrittmacher and choreographed a piece for 24 dancers of the Bildungsjahr Tanz (SENECA). In 2024 & 2025 she created choreography for the graduating class at MUK Vienna and held various teaching positions (e.g., at Festspielhaus St. Pölten), and performed as a dancer at the Viertelfestival Niederösterreich.

As an artist, she has a particular interest in the interdisciplinary connection between dance, text, space, and sound, as well as in transforming the performance space into a multilayered site of experience.

Curriculum Vitae

EDUCATION

  • October 2016 – October 2018: MA Choreography at HZT, Berlin (holder of “Deutschlandstipendium”-scholarship)
  • Since 2019: practicioner training course of the Pantarei Approach (Somatic bodywork) & post natal care worker
  • September 2011 – July 2015 BA of Arts „Contemporary Dance, Choreography and Education“ at the Conservatory of Vienna (MUK)
  • 2011 certificate at „Musisches Gymnasium Salzburg“ with a focus on fine arts and dance

Artistic Projects (Selection)

2025
– “Herzlaut”, choreography & performance in collaboration with pianist David Six, Gala of the Cardiology Congress, Sofiensäle Vienna
– “n/touch”, choreography & performance (in collaboration with dancer Akino Distelberger), Kaleidoskop der Künste, Viertelfestival Lower Austria
– Outside Eye for the piece “Fabelhaft” by Age Company Vienna (choreography: Nicole Berndt-Caccivio)

2024
– “HOW TO HANDLE THIS — A Tutorial”, commissioned choreography for the graduating class in Stage Dance, MUK Vienna, MUTH Vienna

2023
– “Ancestors’ Gift”, “Ancestors’ Banquet”, collaborations with Ulduz Ahmadzadeh, Dschungel Vienna, Brut Vienna
– Intergenerational project “BRUCHSTÜCKE”, choreography & performance, Oderbruch
– “Avid Ground”, choreography & performance, installation by SINT Collective, Berlin

2022
– “Archives of Collapse”, choreography, text & production, Uferstudios Berlin (funded by Fonds Daku)
– Choreography & performance at Soundance Festival Berlin with Meinrad Kneer (double bass)
– “Five Fragments”, performance in collaboration with composer Matthias Rüegg, Porgy & Bess Vienna

2021
– “TERRA_MORPHING”, video works, Tanzrecherche NRW
– “Kobel”, choreography, Bregenz Festival
– “pass | break | float”, video work, residency Künstlerhaus Lukas / Ahrenshoop
– Music videos: “STELLARIS” & “Attracted by the Ghosts”

2020
– “alright_OK”, commissioned choreography for the graduating class TAPÄ, MUK Vienna
– “ONE for ONE”, performance & curation, Berlin
– “Trisektrix”, dancer in dance film, PAF Berlin
– Soundance Festival Berlin (performance & choreography)

Collaboration with musicians, video artists and interdisciplinary teams; ensemble projects in contemporary music; various festivals in Cologne, Berlin, Frankfurt, Hamburg, and Lower Austria.

Teaching & Arts Education

2025–present
Lecturer, Vitalakademie Vienna (training program for dance and movement pedagogy)
Subjects: interdisciplinary practices, methodology & didactics, class design, basic concepts of different dance styles

2021–2022
Guest lecturer, MA Choreography, HZT Berlin
Mentoring of final projects and development of choreographic works

2018–2022
Instructor in the SENECA Intensive Dance Program, Berlin
Subjects: improvisation, choreography, partnering, contemporary dance

Additional teaching and mediation work (selection):
Festspielhaus St. Pölten (2025), Tanzwerkstatt Vienna (2023/24), youth dance project “Transitions” Potsdam (2023), improvisation laboratory “Playground” SENECA Intensiv (2022), HZT Research Week (2022), Salzburg Festival: “Tanz im Glück” (2020–21)

Artistic Research & Residencies

2026
“Articulation — of sensing & voicing”, Schule im Flieger (scholarship)
“Towards The Light – Homage to Hilde Holger” in collaboration with Daliah Ziper (video)

2021/22
“moving through_collapse”, L’Abri Geneva / Kunsthaus Ahrenshoop, in collaboration with Jakob Blazejczak (scenography)

2021
“Of bodies and grounds”, Schloss Bröllin / ARGE Salzburg, Tanzrecherche NRW (scholarship in cooperation with the Mining Museum Bochum)

Grants & Scholarships (Selection)

Scholarship for Schule im Flieger / Artistic Research through Movement(s) & Writing (2026), #takeheart process funding Fonds Daku (2022), Tanzrecherche NRW (2021), DIS-TANZEN solo funding (2021), Start Scholarship BMKÖS (2020), Berlin Senate entry project funding for the solo “META” (2019).

Artist Statement

Define positions again and again. Confrontation. Daily.

Exposing myself. Linger. It transforms, incomprehensibly. React? Action!

My desire for chaos leads to the pursuit of structure. Irritation, friction, a restlessness arises – it nourishes me.
Meandering between poles, attracted by contrasts – a non-verbal attempt of expression. But words, yes words, those too.

Rethinking the theater, it smells like home.
Searching for relevance and following the inner voice. I don’t always hear it.

I’m not looking for topics, people, places – they come towards me, flow through me and reappear in new forms. I want to be open to what is opening up to me and be able to make clear decisions at the right moment.
I strive for clarity in the mind, clarity in the body. For me, it means simplicity that is never banal but self-evident. It feels easy and at the same time demanding, what I do artistically.
Always looking for the in-between, the tipping point from one to the other, complex and yet simple. I can also arrive searching.

I’ve learned to trust. Everything falls into place – now or tomorrow or much later.

Playing with time is a fascinating one. It can stretch to the point of being unbearable and change an entire world in a tiny moment. Timing is everything. Often I don’t think in words but in rhythms.

I wish to have people around me with whom I can explore and create new artistic worlds and make them accessible to others. Together we soften the boundaries between disciplines and focus on the atmosphere, the meaning. Everything moves – thoughts, bodies, spaces. I want to create an impressive experience with simple means and enable a space of experience for participants and viewers that resonates.
It’s fulfilling to be able to make people feel like they’re creating something meaningful together. Involve, make approachable, create something that can still move in a world flooded with stimuli.

I myself find peace in precise observation. A whole universe in a detail. Body, word, sound, space, light are interwoven to create ever new, unique structures.


Be on the trail of secrets. The ones hidden between skin and soul. They are my inner motor.

©Ilva Kassner