Bio-About — Timothy Nouzak

Timothy Nouzak is an Austrian-American choreographer, artist and cultural studies researcher working at the intersection of choreography, socially engaged practice, and public-space research. His work develops culture- and community-oriented formats that treat participation, attention, and relational perception as compositional materials—often through scores, fieldwork, and performative interventions that test how bodies move with (and against) the infrastructures of everyday life.

Currently, Timothy is a Research Fellow at the Angewandte Performance Laboratory (APL), University of Applied Arts Vienna, and pursues his doctoral studies in collaboration with the Faculty of Cultural Sciences at the University of Salzburg. Alongside his artistic practice, he works as a strategy consultant at D/Arts Project Office for Diversity and Urban Dialogue. Together with Charlotta Ruth, he coordinates the funded research project How We Ought To Be Together (APL / INTRA “Archives in Practice”), exploring alternative methods for decision-making and feedback as practices of relational presence.

Timothy Nouzak trained in classical ballet at the Vienna State Opera Ballet School (”Ballettakademie der Wiener Staatsoper“) and completed with 19 years old his first B.A. in Dance at the Music and Arts University of Vienna. He later joined P.A.R.T.S. (Performing Arts Research and Training Studios, Brussels) for the Training Cycle and the STUDIOS M.A. Program (Generation 12). Further he was part of IPSD University of Applied Arts Vienna and Tongji University Shanghai, with a focus on documenting artistic practices connected to sustainability and social engagement. He finished 4 Master's degrees in M.A. Choreography (P.A.R.T.S., Brussels), M.E. Media & Communication Design (Tongji University, Shanghai), M.A. Sustainabilty Science and M.A.S. Cultural Management (University of Applied Arts Vienna).

Besides focussing on his own artistic work and academic research within the last years, Timothy has, in the past, performed with Shelley Senter/Trisha Brown “Set and Reset/Reset” at ImPulsTanz Festival (AT), P.A.R.T.S./Rosas “Somnia” at Kunstenfestivaldesarts (BE), Rosas “Drumming” at CN D during Festival d'Automne de Paris (FR), Benjamin Vandewalle „Derailed“ at KAAP Ostend (BE), Gerard&Kelly “Reusable Parts/Endless Love” at Festival Camping Asia, in Taipei (TW), Ivo Dimchev “Avoiding deLIFEath” at ImPulsTanz Festival (AT), Anton Lachky “Golden Jumpers” at CCB-Bleiburg Festival (SK), Sukina Abdul Noor “Duality” at Passa Porta Festival (BE), Phoebe Berglund “Static” at Boghossian Foundation/Villa Empain (BE), Willi Dorner “Living Room” at Sonnwendviertel (AT), 'WHATWEARE'/SubsTanz, at S. Giorgio Festival Udine (IT). In 2019, the director Tina Leisch invited Timothy to co-choreograph “Traiskirchen,” a political performance work for 48 performers from various backgrounds with its premiere in the frame of “Wiener Festwochen” at Volkstheater. In 2021, Timothy founded a non-profit art collective called "WEMOVE - zur Förderung junger performativer und experimenteller Kunst" in Vienna (AT).

Over the past years, Nouzak has received multiple project and fellowship awards, supporting work developed in Brussels, Leuven, Amsterdam, Munich, Vienna, Reggio Emilia, Taipei, Dakar, and Bangkok. He is also a recipient of the l’Or Fellowship Award (Gagosian) and the Darrel Toulon Prize (Ursula Gigler-Gausterer). His projects have been produced with partners across Europe, Africa, and Asia, including Taipei Artist Village, National Taiwan University of the Arts, École des Sables, ARThailand, Chiang Mai University, Silpakorn University Bangkok, BAU Amsterdam, Brakke Grond, Tanztendenz, Veem House for Performance, Schwere Reiter, P.A.R.T.S., WILD Gallery, Zaman, STUK Leuven, BUDA Kunstencentrum, Künstlerhaus Wien, Ecology and Cultures Lab Shanghai, Sense Gallery Beijing, Danspunt, Connect vzw., Passerelle, and others.

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