DANCER // CHOREOGRAPHER

Silke Grabinger BA, born in Upperaustria / Europe

Silke Grabingers multimedia art works are exhibited in the United States, Canada and Europe and awarded with several prizes.
She got in touch with breakdance in 1997. Projects with Pottporus and international touring followed.
2006 – 2008 she performed in the Cirque du Soleil / The Beatles Show “LOVE“ in Las Vegas, Solo and as an aerial artist and worked with the choreographers Dave St.Pierre, Margie Gillis and Daniel Ezralow.
In 2008, she produced her first Solo performance entitled [SLIK], in cooperation with Pilottanzt. [SLIK] was the winner of the award of Linzo9 - culture capital city of Europe 2009 and Posthof and was successfully touring Europe and Africa.
In 2009, Silke Grabinger was granted the scholarship for music and performing arts (Bmukk), and received the Austrian design state award for a group exhibition with “space & designstrategies “.
She created the character ANIMA in "playGuldaplay" of the honor of Friedrich Gulda, with Paul Gulda, Martha Agerich and others in the Wiener Konzerthaus. In her current work she has volunteered to be a test subject in the timeframe of 10 minutes each for five completely different international choreographers, who live and work in Austria: Anne Juren, Oleg Soulimenko, Philippe from Superamas, Hubert Lepka and comedian Dirk Stermann.

education:
2010 Masterstudies Timebased Media, Kunstuniversität Linz
2009 Bachelor Degree space&designstrategies, Kunstuniversität Linz
2002 Institute of Dance Arts (IDA) at Anton Bruckner Privatuniversität
2002 Masterclass Higher Technical Institute for Graphic & Design
2001 Higher School Certificate, Higher Technical Institute for Graphic & Design