Nicole Haitzinger
Univ.-Prof. Dr. Nicole Haitzinger
Dance Studies
University of Salzburg, Unipark Nonntal
Erzabt-Klotz-Straße 1, Room 2.435, 5020 Salzburg
Tel.: +43 (0)662 8044 4673
Fax.: +43 (0)662 8044 4698
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Research Interests
- Theories and Aesthetics of the Performing Arts from the 16th century to the Present
- Resonances of the Tragic: Figure and Chorus
- Concepts of Staging, Bodies, Movement and Affect (in their Various Historical Formations)
- The Modern as Plural
- Staging Europe
- Body Politics: Dance-Related Practises
- Decolonial Thought: Performing Arts
- Curating in the Performing Arts
Biography
NICOLE HAITZINGER is a dance and theatre scholar, Professor of Dance Studies at the Paris Lodron University in Salzburg, academic director of the transdisciplinary and inter-university doctoral program “Cultures in Transition” at Wissenschaft und Kunst (PLUS and Mozarteum, 2019-2028), and co-director of the university course Curating in Performing Arts in cooperation with the RUB and the FU Berlin. She has conducted several research projects, given guest lectures in Europe, Asia, Africa and the Americas, and published numerous articles and books, including Resonances of the Tragic, The Modern as Plural, Staging Europe, Body Politics, Decoloniality in the Performing Arts and Curating in the Performing Arts. She is currently working with Sandra Chatterjee and Franz Anton Cramer on a scholarly monograph on Choreographing Créolite. (Palgrave, 2025). As a curator and dramaturge, she has realized numerous projects (performances, performative installations, exhibitions) with artists at the intersection of theory and practice, most recently with Amanda Piña Danza y frontera (2018), Exótica (2023), and To Bloom (2024). These have been shown at KunstenfestivaldesArts, HAU, DeSingel, Festival d’Automne and Ruhrtriennale, among others. She lives and works in Salzburg and Paris.
Publications
List of publications [August 2025]
Resonanzen des Tragischen. Zwischen Ereignis und Affekt (Turia+Kant, 2015).
Recent pubilication:
Gareis, Sigrid; Haitzinger, Nicole; Lehnerer, Gwendolin; River, Lin: Collective Curating in Performing Arts. Zürich: OnCurating.org 2025.
Projects: Research/Teaching and Curating/Dramaturgy
Border Dancing Across Time [2019-2023], FWF Project, Head of Project: Projecthomepage
“Magazines as stages for dance: fashion & lifestyle” [2023-2024], Project by Nicole Haitzinger and Anna Menslin: Digital exhibition
To Bloom (2024), EXÓTICA (2023) and Danza y Frontera (2018): dramaturgy for/with Amanda Piña/Nadaproduction
Doctoral Colleg Science and Arts: Cultures in Transition: Website
Postgraduate Program Curating the performing arts: Website
PhD Students: PhD Students
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