Miriam Budzáková is a dance/performance artist currently based in Vienna, working in Austria, Slovakia, the Czech Republic and Italy. She is a graduate of SEAD in Salzburg and holds a bachelor’s degree in dance theatre and performance from the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava. Her creative work moves between seriousness, humour and sentimentality. She explores the body’s experience in uncomfortable, intimate, social and public contexts and creates performative situations as collective audience experiences. Miriam Budzáková has worked with the inter-disciplinary collective INSTITUT INSTITUT (CZ/SK) and the Vienna-based group ArTemporis. Since 2017, she has been a co-organizer of the cross-genre dance festival Tanečno in Northern Slovakia.