Chapter 3, Page 51

Concept and direction: Andreja Rauch Podrzavnik
Performers: Christa Stöffelbauer, Milan Tomášik, Yoram Rosilio, Luka Uršič KALU and Andreja Rauch Podrzavnik
Production: Federacija
Co-production: DUM društvo umetnikov, WUK ttp – tanz theater performance
Photography: Nada Žgank

Andreja Rauch Podrzavnik, Slovenia, choreographer, performer, improviser, a teacher and the author of numerous stage, research and educational projects, has graduated with an MA from the London Contemporary Dance School in 1999. Understanding dance as a mode of behaviour, Andreja has been researching the topicality and relevance of the structures and formats she uses in her work, parallel to examining how to think about and practice art in a given context. Her projects are often collaborative and include different artists from various fields; musicians, actors, designers, photographers and, of course, dancers. She also choreographs and directs commissioned work for companies, theatres and schools and teaches contemporary dance technique, improvisation and composition.

For her work, she received many awards, among them also two awards for the project Special Edition in 2021 (Ksenija Hribar Award and Župančič Award - by the City of Ljubljana). And most recent, in 2026, Rauch Podrzavnik received the Ksenija Hribar Award for her choreographic work 2023 - 2025.

Christa Stöffelbauer (AT) is a choreographer, dancer, performer and dance facilitator based in Vienna. She produces dance performances in collaboration with artists from the fields of music, dance, theatre and fine arts. She studied contemporary stage dance at Sozo Visions in Motion in Kassel, completed a movement pedagogy degree (IGRC)® and a BA in social work at the FH Campus Vienna. Studying with Maya M. Carroll, Agostina D’Alessandro and Julyen Hamilton has inspired her path since 2018. In her artistic work she researches themes of being human and poetic approaches that seek the connection between the body, dance and socio-political issues. She works internationally with Instant Composition in the context of dance performance works in theatre spaces and site-specific works in urban spaces. Her interest is in the potential of collaborative composition and the infinite expression of the dancing body in the moment in relation to time, space and audience. She has danced in works that have been shared at Gallus Theater Frankfurt, Kulturhaus Dock 4 Kassel, documenta Halle, Kasseler Dokfest, Das LOT, WUK, Kultursommer Wien, Ljubljana City Museum, IMMEDIATUS BIENNALE Brno, aNOther Festival Vienna and the Festival international des arts de la rue in Marrakech among others. In 2025, she received the main Price of the Independent Scene Vienna of IG Kultur Wien for “A U G E N B L I C K E | a p o e t i c e n c o u n t e r”.

Milan Tomášik (SK/SLO) is a choreographer, performer, dancer, artistic director and teacher working internationally in the field of dance and performing arts. Milan has performed professionally for twenty years, collaborating with diverse artists across Europe. He is co-founder of the Les SlovaKs dance collective with whom he created and performed critically-acclaimed works internationally. His choreographic experience includes commissioned works for companies, theatres and schools, trilogy of resounding performances Hunting Season, Silver Blue and Fight Bright (Milan Tomášik & Co) and outstanding solo performances Within, Off-beat, Solo 2016 and Arms That Never Knew Me. He delivered a commission work Treatise for Krakow Dance Theatre in Poland. Milan was an associated artists of Scenario Pubblico in Catania (IT, 2018-2020) and an artistic curator of Out of the Toolbox workshop festival in Ghent, (BE, 2022). Milan is regularly invited as a guest teacher around the world to deliver his signature workshop Poetic Body. He was a recipient of the Dance Web Scholarship at ImpulsTanz Festival (AT), was awarded the Prize of the City Prievidza (SK) and received an award for the solo performance Off-beat at international festival Cortoindanza in Cagliari, Sardinia (IT).

Yoram Rosilio is an active musician in the fields of jazz, contemporary, improvised and traditional music. Mainly double bass player, he is also a musician who plays the oud, the gumbri, the lotar, and many other string or percussion instruments. Since 2008, he stands as a leader and composer for the post-free-bop-sefaradik group « Tikkun », and also for the International Paris based Unshaped Orchestra “The Anti RubBer brAiN fAct0ry”. Moreover, he is regularly invited to collaborate to inter-disciplinary researches including dance, performance, painting, theatre, sculpture, visual arts… Since 2017, he organises the « SPIME », a yearly Festival: Sound Paris International Meeting. In 2018, he founded the artistic Network « S.H.A.R.E » (European network for creative music and improvised arts) and, with the Parisian collective and Label « Le Fondeur de Son & LFDS Records », did create the database « Improvisers without borders » that bring together more than 600 artists from all over European the field of Improvisation. Super pro-active and invested, he regularly organizes artistic events where the challenge, the meeting, the requirement and the pleasure are all invited.

Luka Uršič KALU is a visual artist, musician, and performer living and working in Ljubljana. His practice develops at the intersection of image and sound, where, through an intuitive process, he explores relationships between space, materiality, and perception. In his works, he creates suggestive, sensory experiences, while as a music producer he shapes soundscapes for various artistic projects and composes music for his own and collaborative productions.

Kindly supported by the City of Ljubljana - Department of Culture, WUK-Transversaler Topf 2026 and the Alsergrund District Department of Vienna.