Saskia Hölbling
Austrian dancer and choreographer
Saskia Hölbling (born 6 March 1971) is an Austrian choreographer and dancer (contemporary dance)
Life and work
Hölbling was born in Vienna. She created her first works during her degree course at the Konservatorium der Stadt Wien in from 1991 to 1995. She then continued her training until 1997 at Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker's PARTS in Brussels. In 1996 she received a DanceWeb scholarship and in 2001 a scholarship to the Atelier du Monde/Montpellier Danse 2001. In 1995 Hölbling founded her company DANS.KIAS. Since then she has been one of the few Austrian female choreographers with their own company. She has written some 20 works for her Vienna-based troupe.
Saskia Hölbling has also created choreographies for existing contemporary music. In 2002 in collaboration with the Wiener Taschenoper she produced the two music-theatre productions Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda by Claudio Monteverdi and A-Ronne by Luciano Berio. In 2004 she developed a choreography with four dancers for the interactive live performance Labyrinth in collaboration with the composer Wolfgang Mitterer and the video artist Alexej Paryla, It was performed at the Semper Depot of Vienna by DANS.KIAS, with Katia Plaschka, soprano. In 2009 she again worked with the Wiener Taschenoper, producing three further works by Luciano Berio: Naturale, Visage and Sequenza V.
Alongside this she has repeatedly worked with artists from other branches, as in 2005, when Hölbling contributed the lecture performance Vom Sinn des Sinns for the project Philosophy on Stage by the philosopher Arno Böhler and the actor Susanne Ganzer.
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