2023 is as good as over and it was a really packed year: 32 shows, 1 world premiere, 1 creation, 1 music video, 4 art works, 1 exhibition, 9 weeks of teaching. An inexhaustible number of hotel rooms and endless trains and flights...Continue Reading

In Rome's ancient realm, where whispers of time softly cast, legends bloomed and empires clashed. Cobblestones embraced twins of lore, while coliseums roared with gladiators' valor. Marble arches stood tall, reflecting the reign of mighty Caesars...Continue Reading

The Herbert-von-Karajan-Prize is awarded to artists whose exceptional artistic achievements have received worldwide recognition. In 2023, the prize was awarded for the first time to three outstanding emerging artists, all of whom performed during the Salzburg Easter Festival: Alexander Köpeczi, Oscar Jockel and Michael Loehr...Continue Reading

For his first edition as director of the Salzburg Easter Festival, Nikolaus Bachler innovates and opens the program to contemporary dance. Here is the five part online-series « How to make Dreams come true », which shows you a glimpse of the rehearsal process for the world premiere of TRÄUME...Continue Reading

I had the pleasure of speaking with Paolo Fossa and presenting my project 'Sports science as a tool for movement optimization, injury prevention and performance enhancement in the work practice of contemporary dancers' to his BET podcast listeners...Continue Reading

This article is the last part of the BACK TO THE GYM series. It is meant to give an overview of my training progress and hopefully at the same time provide further insight into how to plan and develop a workout...Continue Reading

We all like to train to get better at what we do. Now if our performance stagnates or even declines, it may be because we are undertraining and simply not pushing ourselves hard enough, but it may also be that we are overreaching or overtraining...Continue Reading

Nutrition is a major concern for virtually all athletes, and especially when it comes to strength training programs, adequate protein intake is a key consideration...Continue Reading

This article is intended as a follow-up to DIS-TANZ DIARY #22. Whereas the before mentioned part was mainly about presenting my current training plan, the focus will now be on giving an overview of which muscles are trained by which exercises...Continue Reading

As I am currently in the fourth week of my muscle hypertrophy training and am therefore dealing a lot with the underlying mechanisms, I want to take the opportunity to present one of the most important voices in this field: Dr. Brad Schoenfeld...Continue Reading