Karin Pauer
Karin Pauer is a performer/choreographer based in Vienna. All her pieces are informed by exploring relationships, the in-between, empathy and togetherness. She negotiates these terms by combining embodied choreographic practices with language, visual art and live music. In 2008, she finished her bachelor’s degree (BA) in choreography at the ArtEZ Institute of Arts in Arnheim, the Netherlands. Since then, she has worked with choreographers, theatre directors, film-makers and visual artists such as Doris Uhlich, Random Scream/Davis Freeman, Mike O’Connor, Maureen Kägi, Veronika Franz, Katrin Hornek and Aldo Giannotti. Since 2015, she has regularly co-operated with the Austrian-based dance company Liquid Loft/Chris Haring. Karin Pauer received the danceWEB scholarship in 2009 and the TURBO residency in 2012, both as part of the ImPulsTanz festival. In 2018, she was awarded the Austrian Federal Chancellor’s Office’s START scholarship. In 2020, she was nominated for the EU-wide choreography platform Creative Crossroads as part of Life Long Burning. Her own creations have been presented, among other places, at ImPulsTanz, Tanzquartier Wien, Donaufestival, brut Wien, the Wiener Festwochen, the MAMbo Museum in Bologna and various international festivals. Her co-operations with visual artists Katrin Hornek and Aldo Giannotti have been shown at Secession Wien, Bank Austria Kunstforum and Belvedere 21. Karin Pauer has been connected to brut Wien by a long-term collaboration, resulting on the following co-productions over previous seasons: THE SCORE (2020), HOUSE OF CONSTRUCTS (2024, both with Aldo Giannotti), WE WERE NEVER ONE (2022 and 2023 as part of Choreographic Platform Austria), AVA (2024) and LOW (2025).
Works at brut
- LOW (2025)
- AVA (2024)
- HOUSE OF CONSTRUCTS (2024)
- WE WERE NEVER ONE. an embodied encyclopedia of the now (2023, CPA)
- WE WERE NEVER ONE an embodied encyclopaedia of the now (2022)
- THE SCORE (2020, with Aldo Giannotti)
