Doris Uhlich
"Doris Uhlich has made a name for herself internationally with her unusual choreographies." (FAZ)
"Anyone who talks about the contemporary dance and performance scene cannot ignore Doris Uhlich. The bustling choreographer and performance artist with a penchant for the nonconformist has gone from a shooting star to a fixed star." (Die Presse)
Doris Uhlich studied Pedagogics for Contemporary Dance at the Vienna Conservatory, was an actor in Theatercombinat 2002-2009 and since 2006 has been developing her own projects. She was Exceptional Young Choreographer in the 2008 Ballettanzyearbook and Dancer of the Year in 2011 and 2015 in the journal Tanz. In 2013 she received the Outstanding Artist Award from the BKA in the Performing Arts category. Her productions include Und (i.a. Dietheater Künstlerhaus 2007), Spitze (i.a. Brut / Vienna 2008), Mehr als Genug (i.a. Les Subsistances / Lyon 2009), Rising Swan (i.a. Brut / Wien 2010), Uhlich (i.a. Wiener Festwochen 2011), Come Back (i.a. Steirischer Herbst 2012), More than Naked (i.a. Impulstanz 2013) and Universal Dancer (i.a. Brut / Vienna 2014).
She has taught, among others, at the the Tanzwerkstatt Wien, Impulstanz, Tanzquartier Wien, Vienna Conservatory, K3 / Tanzplan Hamburg, Tanzhaus Zürich, Internationale Schillertage am Nationaltheater Mannheim, Kunsthochschule Halle, Theaterakademie Helsinki, Beijing Fringe Festival / China, Movement Research / NYC, Love-In / Toronto, Studio 303 / Montreal. Since autumn 2015 she has been lecturing at the Max Reinhardt Seminar in Vienna.
Works at brut
- Gootopia – The Treatment (2023)
- Tank / site specific (2021)
- Boom Bodies (Feedback Festival 2017)
- Ravemachine (2016)
2007 to 2015
- Universal Dancer (2014)
- Rising Swan (2013)
- Come Back (2013)
- mehr als genug (2012)
- und jetzt (2012)
- SPITZE (2012)
- Doris Uhlich - Sneak Preview (2012)
- Uhlich (2012)
- Glanz (2009)
- Johannen. Eine Frauenmannschaft (2009)
- und (2007)
