Anne Juren (AT/FR)

Anne Juren (1978, Grenoble, France) is a Vienna-based choreographer and dancer. After her studies of contemporary dance at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Danse de Lyon and French literature, she was a student at the Trisha Brown Dance Company in New York in 2000. Her solo show “A?” (2003) and “J´aime” (2004) in cooperation with Alice Chauchat, “Code Series” (2005) and “Look Look” in collaboration with Kroot Juurak, “Patterns of Sport and Dance” (2006) have been shown in Viennese venues such as brut Wien, Tanzquartier Wien, ImPulsTanz and at various international dance and theatre festivals. 2006 - 2007 she was artist-in-residence at Tanzquartier Wien and took part in the European cultural programme IDEE. In 2008 she worked as a choreographer at the Vienna Burgtheater for the production “Ende gut, alles gut” and presented the first version of her performance “Magical” at Tanzquartier Wien. As a choreographer she has also made contributions to joint projects such as Phillip Gehmacher’s “walk and talk”) series and “I Like to move” for Linz cultural capital of Europe 2009. In 2010 she developed “Piece sans Paroles” together with DD Dorvillier and the New York-based director Annie Dorsen. She readopted “Magical” in close cooperation with Annie Dorsen and presented it at the ImPulsTanz Festival in Vienna. Since then the piece has been presented at Théâtre de la cité Internationale/Paris, Zodiak/Helsinki and Kampnagel/Hamburg. In November 2011 her work “Tableaux Vivants” was a collaboration with visual artist Roland Rauschmeier and composer Johannes Maria Staud premiered in the context of the EU project “project modul dance” at Wien Modern in cooperation with Tanzquartier Wien. Her latest work “Lost&Found”, a choreographic work reflecting upon the interplay of memory, projection and factual events, was staged at brut Wien at the end of 2012.