Public Moves: House Dance
with Olivia Mitterhuemer

Tue 29.07., 17.00h l MQ Forecourt l Free entry

Olivia, co-founder of Potpourri Dance and the Salzburg Flavourama Festival, is a dancer and choreographer with a focus on HipHop and House Dance. This class focuses on concepts and tools to expand participants’ freestyle skills. After groove and rhythm exercises as well as variations from the basics of House Dance, the lesson ends with a short combo.

Public Moves dance classes take place outdoors every day – international and local instructors share their knowledge of everything from jazz and Bollywood dance to waacking in free outdoor classes. No previous experience is necessary, and all ages and levels are welcome!

Registration begins one day before the course starts at 11:00 a.m. via the calendar or by telephone on +43.1.523 55 58-19. If a class is ‘fully booked’, there is still the possibility of securing a remaining place on site. It's worth dropping by!

Biography 

Olivia Mitterhuemer, based in Salzburg, is a dancer, choreographer and dance teacher with a focus on House Dance and HipHop freestyle. Her curiosity for African-American dance styles brought her to various dance productions and to stages and festivals such as brut Vienna, ImPulsTanz Vienna, Palace of Fine Arts San Francisco, Dock11 Berlin, DANCENET Sweden or KoresponDance Prague. She has worked with Marinella Senatore, Julia Schwarzbach, Valentin Alfery, Cornelia Böhnisch and more. With her company Potpourri Dance, she has created her own pieces Houseward Bound, 4 A.M. (in co-production with brut Wien), Friend.shift and PUSH (with Offensive Tanz Berlin) since 2019. She deepened her artistic work during residencies in St. Gallen, Dakar, Paris and Vienna. She was able to express her love for teaching at Salzburg Festival, ORFF Institute or Festspielhaus St. Pölten, among others. In addition to her passion for HipHop and House culture, in recent years she has also immersed herself in the field of interdisciplinary improvisation and instant composition, which has strengthened her understanding of music, dance, movement and perception. As co-founder of the internationally renowned Streetdance Festival Flavourama in Salzburg, she also travels throughout Europe as an opinion leader, sharing her experiences as both a female organiser and artist. Collaborations have taken place with La Place Paris, Streetstar Stockholm or Pure House Vilnius. In 2020 Olivia Mitterhuemer was awarded the annual scholarship for performance of the Country of Salzburg, in 2022 the start-up grant for music and performing arts by BMKÖS.

Photo: © Little Shao