Miss Luiss Twisted

alias Miss Luiss Twisted studied performance and contemporary dance at Anton Bruckner Private University in Linz/Austria. In 2001 she became a member of the postgraduate company x.IDA/Linz to which she later returned as choreographic assistance. In the season of 2002/2003 she was given a scholarship by the Austrian Ministry of Culture, which allowed her to continue her studies in England, Holland Belgium and Finland. In 2005 she graduated with the Bachelor of Arts. Since then she has been collaborating as a freelance dancer with artists such as Jeremy Wade (USA), Ted Stoffer (BE, USA), Vincent Dance Theatre (UK), H2Dance (SE, NO), Cie. Willi Dorner (AT), Cie. Laroque (AT) or Cia. Lanònima Imperial (ES). Besides her work as a performer Iris has been teaching contemporary dance, improvisation and partnering workshops and regular classes for professionals in Austria, Poland, Canada, the UK, Spain and Japan.

In December 2006 Iris forms the collective cafe mut. together with a fellow dancer and three musicians. Together they investigate the relation between music and movement within the playground of structured improvisation. They create the full evening piece “Hotel Eden”, which is warmly received in both Austria and Spain. In January 2007 Iris founds the platform Miss Luiss Twisted, which serves as a base for her own creations. The latest production is the solo „breve ensayo sobre la nada“, which premiered in January 2011 in Barcelona. In 2009 the guinea pig collective is born, which forms the base for creative processes and exchange of inspiration of 3 artists coming from the fields of new media art, experimental music and performance art, Iris being one of the founder members. Their first collaboration „Blackbox“ receives financial and infrastructural support in both Austria and Spain, premiers in March 2010 in Austria and is currently still touring. Iris now lives and works in Barcelona were – apart from being a member of the Cia. Bebeto Cidra - she follows her own creative path and collaborates with different artists.

• breve ensayo sobre la nada (2011)

SoloPerformance

There is something unpredictably beautiful about not having a plan. Nothing(ness) is the most complex goal to achieve. Before you get to nothing(ness) you pass through the complex multiplicity of yourself. Within nothing(ness) everything that happens becomes the pure version of it's form, the core of each sensation, emotion or action, without being linked to circumstances, situations or people - not even to personality. Somewhere far away from individuality but yet within the essence on one's being. Action and reaction loose their foundation when everything becomes one within nothingness. There is no ground for judgment, here are no parameters for comparison. It just Is. Simply and delicately.

idea/creation/performance: Iris Heitzinger
original music: Christine Hinterkörner
Lightdesign: Iris Heitzinger
supported by Cia. Bebeto Cidra

• Lo Que Es (2008)

SoloDancePeformance for a lady and a ventilator

Where does life happen?
Between people.
Where does fear live?
In the relations between owning, loosing and loving.
What is pride?
The attempt to protect one`s own value or that which keeps us from growing.
What is disillusionment?
The loss of self-deception.
Where does communication or exchange start?
With the willingness to listen.
What is loss?
Realizing that one has to go on.
Why think about what should have happened?
In order to learn.
Why take of the layers one by one, give up again and again all the mechanisms that simplify my living with myself?
In order to find myself someday.

Lo Que Es is a reflection on how we try to deal when we loose something or someone, on the process of admitting loss to yourself and working through the stages of grief in order to go on.


idea/creation/performance: Iris Heitzinger
music: various
lightdesign: Dani Lacueva

• AnDando con Zapatos (2007)

Duo for 2 dancers and a bunch of shoes

"Would you lend me your shoe?"... Maybe being asked to take of your shoe could be the most intimate favor anyone could ask of you. And maybe walking in someone else's shoe gives an idea of his everyday routines, of his way of moving, thinking, feeling... maybe it means touching a slight bit of his essence even. And what is there to find? Only a caricature of someone, an artificial image? Or is it possible to catch a glimpse of truth? And… in the end is it me who’s walking in your shoe or is it you?

idea/concept: Iris Heitzinger

creation/performance: Ariadna Estalella Alba, Iris Heitzinger

BUBBLES
a series of DanceVideoExperiments

A reality I find within my work is that sometimes ideas end up on the hold because it seems that first you have to write a dossier about it, elaborate the idea, find collaborators and investors, rehearsal space and money to bring them to term. But what happens with the creative sketches which pop up like bubbles in a glass of champagne and want to be heard and seen just for what they are? Just because right now I feel like hopping around my living room in underwear or starting a little dance in my kitchen for example and who knows what can come from this. So I've decided to start a series of spontaneous works - boring afternoons which inspire me to do something a bit strange or no at all planned and see where it takes me. I've decided to take the freedom to just do. So here they are - BUBBLES - and who knows when the next one will pop up?

idea/concept/creation: Iris Heitzinger
camera and video editing: Iris Heitzinger

• Red Head (2011)

• High 5 (2011)

• TwistIt (2011)

• Toute seule a la maison (2010)

• the guinea pig collective (since 2009) BLACKBOX
  

The guinea pig collective unites three artists from different fields: Dietmar Suoch (media artist), Christine Hinterkörner (singer/composer) and Iris Heitzinger (choreographer/performance artist). They are brought together by the interest to create a discourse, which deepens the understanding of each artist’s own craft as well as one, which offers an intense exchange and involvement with the craft of the others, therefore, creating an interdisciplinary language.

Their first collaboration is the project Blackbox an interdisciplinary proposition, which combines performative, audiovisual and media art with new technologies in both the format of an interactive installation and a live-performance.

Blackbox deals with the topic of the virtual space as a misinterpreted place of intimacy and of personal encounters and puts this face to face with the immediate experience of direct human and personal exchange.

idea/concept/creation: Dietmar Suoch, Christine Hinterkörner, Iris Heitzinger
choreography/performance: Iris Heitzinger
technical direction/realization: Dietmar Suoch
musical direction/composition/voice: Christine Hinterkörner
light design: Hannes Peithner - Lichtenfels
costume: the collective
set design: the collective, Ingrid Weichselbaumer

Blackbox is funded by the Arts Council of Salzburg/Austria and was coproduced by ARGEkultur/Salzburg within the festival Basics 2010. Furthermore it’s creation was supported by La Caldera - centro de creación de dansa y de artes escénicas contemporáneas/Barcelona, Nau Coclea - centro de creación contemporánea/Camallera y Verein tanzhouse - association of choreographers/Salzburg.

http://www.gpigs.com

• cafe mut (2006)

cafe mut. acts as an interdisciplinary (music-movement-word) and interactive collective of artists, coming from the field of contemporary music and dance who's declared goal and passion it is to create the "moment" in real time and space. Moving within the playground of the art of improvisation we strive to share the creative moment and make it directly accessible and experience-able for every-body and soul. This is accomplished in a typical "cafe mut. melange" consisting of atmospheric and technical virtuosity, emotional authenticity, abstraction and simplicity.

Collaboration in the full-evening improvisation piece "Hotel Eden" (2006)

cast: 
clemens salesny - reeds
thomas froschauer - drums
clemens wenger - piano, electronics
marlene wolfsberger - movement
iris heitzinger - movement
guest: eneko alcaraz - movement

Appearences at: CCL Linz, WUK Wien, Festival Dantza Hirian (Spain/San Sebastian, Irun), Jazzwerkstatt Wien, Wuk Wien, Spratzerner Kirchenweg (St.Pölten), Sommerpavillon Melk

experiments on the streets of linz/at



cafe mut. presents itself


http://www.myspace.com/cafemut

• L_ENTES (2011 - 2012)

The project L_ENTES is a contemporary dance performance which unites 4 different disciplines: movement, light, sound and quantum physics. The main focus of the piece lies on the investigation of human perception.
This is a collaborative work which is devised by a team of independent artists. For more information please visit: http://flavors.me/l_entes

Concept/creation/performance: Natalia Jiménez, Iris Heitzinger
Lightdesign: Israel Quintero
Science: Ricardo Quesada, Josep Vidal
Original music: Christine Hinterkörner
Assistance of direction: Francoise Boillat

Support:

• La Nave del Duende, Cáceres/ES - http://www.lanavedelduende.com/
• La Fragua, Belalcázar/ES - http://lafragua.eu/
• EscenaEstruch, Sabadell/ES - http://www.lestruch.cat/
• O Espaço do Tempo, Montemor-o-Novo/PT - http://www.oespacodotempo.pt/

Artistic projects:

• project L_ENTES - contemporary dance performance project
• the guinea pig collective - dance and new media
  
• cafe mut. - collective of improvisers

Friends & Collegues:

• Dietmar Suoch - media & design
  
• Madame Humtata - vocal artist
  
• Stiliana Mitzeva - graphic design & illustration
• Natalia Jiménez - dance & performance artist
  

Support:

• Verein Tanz_house - independent choreographers Salzburg
• Creation Centre La Caldera Barcelona
• Creation Centre Nau Coclea Girona
• Teatro Xtremo Jaén