Andrea Amort (born 1958,

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) is an

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dance critic,

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, festival and exhibition

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as well as a non-fiction writer.

Life

Andrea Amort studied

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and

classical ballet Classical ballet is any of the traditional, formal styles of ballet that exclusively employ classical ballet technique. It is known for its aesthetics and rigorous technique (such as pointe work, turnout of the legs, and high extensions), its ...

with Erika Gangl and Andrei Jerschik in Linz, and Theatre Studies at the

University of Vienna The University of Vienna (german: Universität Wien) is a public research university located in Vienna, Austria. It was founded by Duke Rudolph IV in 1365 and is the oldest university in the German-speaking world. With its long and rich histor ...

, where she received her doctorate in 1982 with a thesis on the story of the ballet of the Vienna State Opera from 1918 to 1942. From 1981 to 2009, she was a dance critic and sometimes also an editor and deputy director of the cultural department of Vienna's Daily

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. Presently she writes for international media and trade magazines. After teaching at the

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, she moved in 2003 to the

Music and Arts University of the City of Vienna The Music and Arts University of the City of Vienna ( (MUK)) in Vienna, Austria, is a university of music and the arts. It was previously (2005−2015) named (KONSuni, Konservatorium Wien University), and before that (Conservatory of Vienna). ...

. She has lectured in

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and

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and teaches at the

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, as well as working on documentary films. From 2009, she has worked as a curator for theatre, dance and performance on behalf of

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, where she currently lives.

Artistic director of performance projects and festivals

* ''Viennese dance in exile'': Lecture and Performance Series in cooperation, inter alia, with the Kunstverein Alte Schmiede and the Jewish Museum in Vienna since 1998, with the focus on biographies and work of dancers and choreographers Hanna Berger,

Gertrud Bodenwieser Gertrud Bodenwieser (3 February 1890 – 10 November 1959), also known as "Gertrude", was a dancer, choreographer, dance teacher and pioneer of expressive dance. Early life The daughter of Theodore and Maria Bondi, a wealthy Jewish couple, ...

, Magda Brunner-Hoyos,

Hilde Holger Hilde Boman-Behram (née Hilde Sofer, stage name Hilde Holger; 18 October 1905 – 22 September 2001) was an expressionist dancer, choreographer and dance teacher whose pioneering work in integrated dance transformed modern dance. Family H ...

Gertrud Kraus Gertrud Kraus ( he, גרטרוד קראוס; 5 May 1901 – 13 November 1977) was an Israeli pioneer of modern dance in Israel. Biography Gertrud Kraus was born in 1901 in Vienna, Austria-Hungary. Her father, Leopold Kraus, and her mother, Olga ...

, Stella Mann, Hedi Pope, Cilli Wang, Wera Goldman and

Shona Dunlop MacTavish Shona Katrine MacTavish (née Dunlop; 12 April 1920 – 18 June 2019) was a New Zealand dancer, teacher, author, choreographer and pioneer in liturgical dance in the Asia-Pacific. She was known as "the mother of modern dance in New Zealand". ...

. * ''Dance in exile'': exhibition at the Austrian Theatre Museum, lecture series and dance program in collaboration with the Festival tanz2000.at & ImPulsTanz in Viennese Akademietheater, with works by Hanna Berger, Gertrud Bodenwieser, Andrei Jerschik, and Pola Nirenska. * ''Hanna Berger: Retouchings''. Scenic Project with works by Nikolaus Adler, Manfred Aichinger, Bernd Roger Bienert, Rose Breuss and Willi Dorner (Festspielhaus, St. Pölten, 2006), Theatre Odeon, Vienna 2008, Posthof Line (2009), ImPulsTanz Festival (2010). * ''Beyond the Waltz Festival'', co-curated by George Jackson, in cooperation with the Austrian Cultural Forum in Washington (2006). * ''Touches Festival''. Dance before 1938-, Dance today. 33 Events. Theatre Odeon and other places, Vienna (2008).

Publications

Books

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Posts (selection)

* * * * * * * * * * * ''Auch Richard Strauss wollte den Tanz erneuern. Wie Choreograf Heinrich Kröller die Josephs Legende ab 1921 in Mitteleuropa durchsetzte.'' In: ''Worte klingen, Töne sprechen. Richard Strauss und die Oper.'' Hg. v. Christiane Mühlegger-Henhapel u. Alexandra Steiner-Strauss. Symposium anlässlich der Richard Strauss-Ausstellung im Theatermuseum Wien, 22.–23. Jänner 2015. Wien, Holzhausen, 2015, S. 125–137, * ''Das Tanz-Theater der Anita Berber. Der Körper als Fratze.'' In: ''gift. zeitschrift für freies theater'', Wien, 01/2015, S. 16–19. ISSN 1992-2973

References

External links

Literature from and about Andrea Amort in the German National Library

* [https://web.archive.org/web/20151210192037/http://www.muk.ac.at/studium/lehrende/details/bio//andrea-amort/ Andrea Amort on the website of the Music and Arts University of the City of Vienna and on the website of tanznetz.de] {{DEFAULTSORT:Amort, Andrea 1958 births Living people Austrian curators Austrian non-fiction writers Austrian women dramatists and playwrights Austrian expatriates in Switzerland Dance critics Dance historians University of Vienna alumni Academic staff of the University of Zurich 21st-century Austrian dramatists and playwrights 21st-century Austrian women writers Academic staff of Anton Bruckner Private University