Philipp Gehmacher (A)   

Born 1975, Philipp Gehmacher grew up in Salzburg and Vienna. After spending ten years studying and working in London, he returned to Vienna in 2003. Since 1999 Philipp Gehmacher has initiated the choreographic works “in the absence”, “Holes and Bodies”, “embroyder”, “good enough”, “mountains are mountains”, “incubator”, “das überkreuzen beyder hände” and “like there’s no tomorrow” in collaboration with, amongst others, the performers David Subal, Clara Cornil and Rémy Héritier, the composer Pedro Gomez-Egana and the pianist Alexander Lonquich, as well as the theorists Peter Stamer and Myriam van Imschoot. In 2007 he started collaborating with Meg Stuart („MAYBE FOREVER“), which was continued with the performance installation “the fault lines” together with Vladimir Miller in 2010. In 2008 he curated the series “STILL MOVING” for Tanzquartier Wien, within which he introduced the lecture performance format “walk+talk”. In 2009 and 2010 Philipp Gehmacher and Vladimir Miller created the video-installations “at arm’s length” und “dead reckoning” together. The latter was shown at steirischer herbst in 2009. The Federal Ministry for Education, Art and Culture scholarship prize, awarded for dance for the first time, went to Philipp Gehmacher in autumn 2009.