Chris Haring


Christian Haring is an Austrian dancer and choreographer. He is founder and artistic director of the dance company Liquid Loft.
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Life

Chris Haring studied at Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst in Vienna and in New York, within others at Cunningham School. He worked as a dancer with compagnies like Nikolais/Luis Dance Cie., man act, Nigel Charnock, DV8 Physical Theatre, Cie. Willi Dorner and Pilottanzt. For his own choreografies we worked with fine artists such as Erwin Wurm, Michel Blazy and Aldo Giannotti, musician Peter Rehberg or media artist Klaus Obermaier. Together with filmmaker Mara Mattuschka. he co-directed movies based on his performances.
Together with the musician Andreas Berger, dancer Stephanie Cumming and dramaturg Thomas J. Jelinek he founded the dance compagnie Liquid Loft in 2005.

Choreographies

  • D.A.V.E., 1999
  • Vivisector, 2002
  • Fremdkoerper, 2003
  • Diese Körper, Diese Spielverderber, 2004
  • Legal Errorist, 2004
  • My Private Bodyshop, 2005
  • Kind of Heroes, 2005
  • Running Sushi, 2006
  • Posing Project A – The Art of Wow, 2007
  • Posing Project B – The Art of Seduction, 2007
  • The China Project & Lovely Liquid Lounge, 2009
  • Sacre – The Rite Thing, 2010
  • Talking Head, 2010
  • WELLNESS, 2011
  • Mush:Room, 2012
  • Groza, 2012
  • Mush : Room, 2012
  • Grace Note, 2012
  • Deep Dish, 2012
  • LEGO LOVE, 2013
  • Frozen Laugh, 2014
  • Shiny, shiny…, 2014
  • False Colored Eyes, 2015
  • Candy's Camouflage, 2016

Film

Co-Regie with Mara Mattuschka
  • Legal Errorist, 2005
  • Part Time Heroes, 2007
  • Running Sushi, 2008
  • Burning Palace, 2009
  • Perfect Garden, 2014

Awards

  • 2004 Award for best performance at the Biennale de la Dance Lyon, with "Fremdkoerper”
  • 2007 Goldener Löwe at the Biennale in Venedig for "Best Performance" with Posing Project B – The Art of Seduction
  • 2008 NORMAN, Wand 5, Stuttgarter Filmwinter for "Part Time Heroes",
  • 2008 Best innovative Experimental-, Animation and short movie at Diagonale – Festival of Austrian Film with "Running Sushi"
  • 2009 Diaphone Award, Cindeans, Amsterdam, für "Burning Palace",
  • 2009 Audience Award, Wand 5, Stuttgart for "Running Sushi",
  • 2009 Award Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen, for "Burning Palace",
  • 2010 outstanding artist award – Darstellende Kunst, Bundesministerium für Unterricht, Kunst und Kultur for Chris Haring.

Literature

  • Andrea Amort, Mimi Wunderer-Gosch : Österreich tanzt. Geschichte und Gegenwart. Böhlau-Verlag, Wien 2001,.
  • Kim Knowles: ''Film, Performance, and the Spaces Between: The Collaborative Works of Mara Mattuschka and Chris Haring''