Short biography
The choreographer and dancer Bert Gstettner was born in Vienna in 1961. He grew up in Burgenland and lives and works in Vienna.
Gstettner studied modern, contemporary dance in Vienna under Alwin Nikolais as well as Les Watanabe and Charleston Marquis, in Paris with Peter Goss and most importantly unter Erick Hawkins in New York. Many years of singing lessons "Libero Canto" with Edwin Szamosi. He has been intensively involved with Butoh dance and has been practicing Kungfu, Tai Chi and Qi-Gong for many years.
In 1992 he founded his company Tanz*Hotel, which is also a production label with studios. His dance pieces have been performed in Brazil, Mexico, North America, Egypt, India, Russia and numerous European countries. Engagements as a choreographer for the Wiener Festwochen, Steirischer Herbst, Vienna State Opera and Volksoper, Viennese Mozart Year 2006, Schauspielhaus Graz. Outstanding productions of city-space projects in Vienna: Messepalast, Kaiserbadschleuse at the Danube Canal, Halle 1030, Schottenstift Kellergewölbe, Kuppelsaal of the TU, Museumsquartier (opening of the MQ, Main Courtyard) among others.
on the left: Medusa*Expedit, photo by Ernst Grünwald 2015. on the right: 20*YOHD, photo by Heinz Zwazl 2012.
His choreographies lead dance, movement and the preoccupation with the human body into areas in that exercise, ritual, euphoria, exhaustion, catharsis and other phenomena of intense perception become transformative experiences.
In his studios TANZ*HOTEL | RESORT 1020 Bert Gstettner gives dance lessons and since 2008 he has been leading the coaching and mentoring project for young dancers and choreographers Artist At Resort.
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