18.–19.09.25 @ GRUND1535
Where Is the Space for Our Bodies?
Katharina Löffler (in collaboration with Magic Carpets)
As part of her Magic Carpets residency in Innsbruck, Katharina Löffler invited women and FLINTA individuals from all generations to co-create a shared, creative space for dance exploration.
The starting point were questions about physical encounter, closeness, and the visible and invisible threads that connect our neighborhoods. Through intensive collective research, discussions, and movement-based practices, the group developed a performative mosaic.
In the frame of the workshop series, Katharina Löffler hosted a recreational dance retreat with her study group at GRUND1535 in cooperation with Magic Carpets.
Magic Carpets
Magic Carpets is a Creative Europe platform based on an international artist-in-residence program for emerging artists. It brings together 17 cultural organizations from across Europe, fostering international mobility, exchange, and interdisciplinary collaboration. Together with and for local communities, new works are created that highlight local and global specificities while strengthening cultural participation. Austria is represented on the Magic Carpets platform by the association OPEN SPACE INNSBRUCK – in close cooperation with and under the direction of the cultural manager and curator Danijela Oberhofer Tonković.
Katharina Löffler
(*1998, Austria, she/they) works internationally as a freelance dancer, performer, and dance facilitator. She graduated from Tanz-Zentrale Leipzig, Área dansa i creació in Barcelona, and Laboratorio Escuela Theatre School. In her artistic practice, she seeks to rethink the way we relate to our bodies, to each-other and to our natural environment, inviting others to discover with curiosity endless possibilities of movement together.
She is deepening and expanding her research and work in contemporary dance and performance, contact and solo improvisation, movement, and (inclusive) dance pedagogy.
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