Mariella Greil
She is a performer, dance-maker, artist-researcher and Senior Artist at the Angewandte Performance Laboratory (www.apl.uni-ak.ac.at) leading the working group Antenna Research and Education. She has completed her Practice as Research PhD at the Department of Drama, Theatre and Performance in collaboration with the Department of Dance at Roehampton University, London (2018). Currently, she works on her habilitation project Choreo-ethical Assemblages – Narrations of Bare Bodies (Elise-Richter-PEEK/FWF) at the University of Applied Arts Vienna.
In her longstanding and ongoing artistic research, she focuses on contemporary performance, especially its ramifications into the choreographic and the ethical. She developed a politicized and ethico-aesthetic practice enabling performative encounter, participatory experiments and the crossing of thresholds as she works towards sustained life practices of experimentation.
Jointly with Emma Cocker, Nikolaus Gansterer and Simona Koch she was awarded the SAR RC Prize for Best Exposition 2019 for Choreo-graphic Figures: Scoring Aesthetic Encounters (see researchcatalogue.net/view/462390/462391). Greil received the Danceweb Europe Scholarship twice (ImPulstanz Festival), and was awarded the Grant for Dance by the Austrian Federal Ministry for Education, Arts and Culture in 2008 and 2011. Currently engaged in teaching and mentoring roles at ArtEZ, Codarts/Fontys, and the University of Applied Arts in Vienna, she performs globally at renowned institutions (Chicago Cultural Center, Links Hall, MQ Vienna, MAK, Vienna Art Week, SoHo in Ottakring, brut, WUK, ImPulsTanz, Tanzquartier, House of World Cultures, Berlin, Nexus, Philadelphia, Fontys, Tilburg, apass, Brussels, Dance Education Biennale, UNAM in Mexico D.F., Shiobhan Davies Studios, London, etc.)
Together with Vera Sander, she co-edited the book (per)forming feedback (2016), and with Emma Cocker and Nikolaus Gansterer Choreo-graphic Figures: Deviations from the Line (2017). She published the monograph Being in Contact – Encountering a Bare Body (2021) and recently the anthology Bare Bodies – Thresholding Life (2024) with De Gruyter.
