Ingrid Türk-Chlapek
Artistic Director


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Ingrid Türk-Chlapek, born in 1963 in Vienna. Theatre and dance studies scholar (M. Phil. 1989, MA 2017), 1993 – 2018 teaching posts at the Universities of Vienna and Klagenfurt as well as at the Joanneum Technical College in Graz. A Red Noses Clown doctor since 1995, 1997 – 2011 Manager of Artemis Generationentheater, 2008 – participation in the EU project “Critical Endeavour” for young dance review at the Vienna ImPulsTanz-Festival and at the same place member of the jury at the 1. Prix Jardin d’Europe (European Dance Award for Young Choreography). Since then she has worked as an independent dance journalist for the kleinezeitung.at, tanz.at and tanznetz.de. 2009 – work experience at the Leeds Dance House (UK) in the Leonardo da Vinci EU exchange program T.R.A.N.S.F.E.R. for postgraduates. Since 2014 she has worked as a curator of the contemporary dance activities of Klagenfurt City Council. She contributed in 2016 to the German Dance Congress in Hannover with Franz Anton Cramer and Matjaž Farič regarding contemporary practical application in rural areas. In 2017 she was a consultant at the dance journalism conference in Essen on local journalism. Since 2016 she has worked as artistic director of PELZVERKEHR.


Marie-Theres Ivanov
Assistant to the artistic director


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Marie-Theres Ivanov was born in 1996 in Herrenberg. She did music and dance studies at the University of Salzburg (BA 2017, MA 2020) and supplemented studies "Arts and Publics" as part of the cooperation focus "Science and Art" of the University of Salzburg and the Mozarteum University. 2017 – 2019 jumper at Krabbelstube Uni Freisaal, July to August 2016 and April 2017 usherette at the Salzburg Festival Foundation. 2019 she has worked as an intern at the Hans Gabor Belvedere singing competition and as an usherette at the Carinthian Summer Music Festival. In September 2019 she completed an internship at PELZVERKEHR – in 2020 she became the assistant to the artistic director. She is the co-author of "Demand: What about the Cultural Development Plan of the State of Salzburg?" published in "Open Up! II – Cultural Participation in Practice” of the eJournal p-art-icipate p-art-icipate.


Fabian Türk
Chairman


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Fabian Türk, born in 1993 in Carinthia / Koroška, studied Media Informatics at the University of Vienna (BSc 2017) and Stage Design at the Angewandte Wien (Mag. 2023). Makes media art, performance and theater. Android app developer and UX designer in Vienna since 2018. Wins the Prize of IG Kultur Wien in 2018 (3rd place) as a member of the collective Antifaschistisches Ballett. 2022 Scholarship for students of the Angewandte at Impulstanz Vienna. Fabian Türk completed a bilingual education (German and Slovenian), speaks five languages and lives in Vienna. Artistic interest in analog-digital formats and the network theater of the future.


Edda Pilgram-Hannesschläger
Cultural Education


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Edda Pilgram-Hannesschläger, * 1961 in Klagenfurt. She has been working as a life and social counselor, as a painting and design therapist as well as a systemic art therapy supervisor. Various advanced training courses, including "Art in the Social Field" (2004). Many years of professional experience in the psychosocial and health area as well as in the art and culture area, e.g. B. Uniclub, University Culture Center UNIKUM, women's shelter, women's advice Belladonna, Artemis Generation Theater, Tanzamtklagenfurt_Celovec. Exhibition participation, u. a. "First Carinthian short circuit action" (1999), "belladonna: the first XX years" (2006).


Stanislaus Kernjak
Production


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Stanislaus Kernjak, * 1956 in Selpritsch / Velden. Studied medicine in Graz, ophthalmologist in Völkermarkt since 1991, currently residing in the sunny town of Diex. He has been following a lifelong interest in and occupation with fine arts and photography (light, form, color) as well as with astronomy. For about twelve years, theoretical engagement with and active practice of body and movement techniques: contemporary dance (Dagmar Dachauer, Rosalia Wanka, Leonie Humitsch, ART SPACE Stift millstatt), performance (Jasmin Schaitl, VestAndPage), Pilates (Birgit Perchtaler), yoga (Birgit Helldorff), Zumba (Angelika Kummer), Butoh and Capoeira.


Lisa Marielle Neuner
Content Manager


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Lisa Marielle Neuner, * 1992 in Villach. She is working as a dancer and dance teacher. During her studies of German and English at the University of Vienna (M. Phil. 2021), she has participated in an International Scholarship at the University of Melbourne (Australia) with a focus on Performance Studies, Creative Writing and Gender Studies. Since 2012 she has been working as a dance teacher at SOS Children's Villages, Arriola Dance Studio, Primorama Dance Studio and Riorio Dance and Movement Kindergarten among others. Since 2017 she has been participating in clowning workshops and has performed on clowning open stages. 2018/19 she worked as an actress in the queer-feminist children's play "Cinderella My Fairy Rights" (Theater of the Oppressed Vienna). Currently, she is working as a lecturer at the College for Commercial Dance Styles and Dance Pedagogy for the subjects of dance history and academic writing. She is a board member of the Association "arriOla Sports Association for the Promotion of Young Dance Talents". Since September 2019 she has been a teacher at a middle school in Vienna's 16th district. She has been collecting experiences in the field of social media and marketing as part of her University studies and in the context of her professional activity in the Arriola and Primorama Dance Studio.