Christian Haring (* 18 December 1970,

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) is an Austrian Dancer and Choreographer. He is founder and artistic director of the dance compagnie Liquid Loft.

Life

Chris Haring studied at

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in Vienna and in New York, within others at Cunningham School. He worked as a dancer with compagnies like Nikolais/Luis Dance Cie. (US), man act (GB), Nigel Charnock (GB),

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(GB), Cie. Willi Dorner (AT) and Pilottanzt (AT). For his own choreografies we worked with fine artists such as Erwin Wurm, Michel Blazy and

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, musician Peter Rehberg or media artist Klaus Obermaier. Together with filmmaker

Mara Mattuschka Mara Mattuschka (born 22 May 1959) is an Austrian ''avant-garde'' filmmaker. Life Mattuschka was born in Sofia in Bulgaria in 1959. At the age of 17, in 1976, she moved to Vienna to study Ethnology and Linguistics. In 1983, she entered Maria La ...

. he co-directed movies based on his performances. Together with the musician Andreas Berger, dancer

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and dramaturg Thomas J. Jelinek he founded the dance compagnie Liquid Loft in 2005.

Choreographies

* D.A.V.E., 1999 (with Klaus Obermaier) * Vivisector, 2002 (with Klaus Obermaier) * Fremdkoerper, 2003 * Diese Körper, Diese Spielverderber, 2004 * Legal Errorist, 2004 * My Private Bodyshop, 2005 * Kind of Heroes, 2005 * Running Sushi, 2006 * Posing Project A – The Art of Wow, 2007 * Posing Project B – The Art of Seduction, 2007 * The China Project & Lovely Liquid Lounge, 2009 (with

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Dance Theatre) * Sacre – The Rite Thing, 2010 (with Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo) * Talking Head, 2010 * WELLNESS (The Perfect Garden), 2011 * Mush:Room (The Perfect Garden), 2012 * Groza, 2012 (with Dialogue Dance, Kostroma) * Mush : Room (extended), 2012 * Grace Note, 2012 (with Phace Ensemble in the frame of

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) * Deep Dish (The Perfect Garden), 2012 * LEGO LOVE, 2013 (with Staatstheater Kassel) * Frozen Laugh, 2014 (with Ballett Moskau) * Shiny, shiny… (Imploding Portraits Inevitable), 2014 * False Colored Eyes (Imploding Portraits Inevitable), 2015 ( Burgtheater Wien,

Impulstanz Vienna International Dance Festival ImPulsTanz Vienna International Dance Festival is a major contemporary dance festival held in Vienna, Austria each year. It gathers thousands of professional dancers, choreographers and teachers for a five-week program of performance, research proj ...

) * Candy's Camouflage, 2016

Film

Co-Regie with

* Legal Errorist, 2005 (Permanent exhibition at

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, Paris) * Part Time Heroes, 2007 * Running Sushi, 2008 * Burning Palace, 2009 * Perfect Garden, 2014

Awards

* 2004 Award for best performance at the Biennale de la Dance Lyon, with "Fremdkoerper” * 2007 Goldener Löwe at the Biennale in Venedig for "Best Performance" with Posing Project B – The Art of Seduction (with Liquid Loft) * 2008 NORMAN, Wand 5, Stuttgarter Filmwinter for "Part Time Heroes", (with Mara Mattuschka / Liquid Loft) * 2008 Best innovative Experimental-, Animation and short movie at Diagonale – Festival of Austrian Film with "Running Sushi" (with Mara Mattuschka / Liquid Loft) * 2009 Diaphone Award, Cindeans, Amsterdam, für "Burning Palace", (with Mara Mattuschka / Liquid Loft) * 2009 Audience Award, Wand 5, Stuttgart for "Running Sushi", (with Mara Mattuschka / Liquid Loft) * 2009 Award Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen, for "Burning Palace", (with Mara Mattuschka / Liquid Loft) * 2010 outstanding artist award – Darstellende Kunst, Bundesministerium für Unterricht, Kunst und Kultur for Chris Haring.

Literature

Andrea Amort Andrea Amort (born 1958, Linz) is an Austrian dance critic, dance historian, playwright, festival and exhibition curator as well as a non-fiction writer. Life Andrea Amort studied modern dance and classical ballet with Erika Gangl and Andrei Jer ...

, Mimi Wunderer-Gosch (Hrsg.): ''Österreich tanzt. Geschichte und Gegenwart.'' Böhlau-Verlag, Wien 2001, . * Kim Knowles: ''Film, Performance, and the Spaces Between: The Collaborative Works of Mara Mattuschka and Chris Haring'' (forthcoming)

External links

liquidloft.at

Der Standard

References

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