Miriam Althammer
Austria, Germany (residence), Germany (citizenship) °1987
research interests: movement-based, performance; re-enactment; landspace; site; environment;, dance;, Dance education, dance improvisation; choreographic practice; emergence; performance making;, oral history, oral histories, archive, Body based art, Archaeology, materiality, movement research, scores, notation, reconstruction, Southeast Europe, Bucharest, Belgrade, Balkans, ecology
affiliation: University for Music and Dance Cologne
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Miriam Althammer (Dr. des.) is a Dance, Theatre and Performance scholar. She is currently a research associate with a focus on "Archives, Media, Arts" at the Center for Contemporary Dance at the University for Music and Dance Cologne, where she received her PhD with a thesis on contemporary dance in Southeastern Europe and connections between archives, oral history, artistic research, and artistic-institutional practices.
In her research, she is particularly concerned with the re/reading of European dance and performance histories in the 20th and 21st centuries with a focus on Eastern Europe, such as the example of the East/West exchange at Tanzquartier Wien. She is interested in practice-based dance and movement research and its historical, artistic-research, inter- and transdisciplinary, and material-media dimensions.
Currently she is preparing a project on "Modern (Counter)Drafts" along the artistic biographies of Floria Capsali, Louise Langgaard, Maga Magazinović, Ana Maletić and Vera Proca Ciortea.