<p>Jo­an­na Gru­ber­ska is a dancer, mo­ve­ment re­se­ar­cher and te­a­cher. She stu­di­ed at An­ton Bruck­ner Uni­ver­si­ty in Linz and at the In­sti­tut del Teat­re in Bar­ce­lo­na and ob­tai­ned a BA de­gree in Con­tem­po­ra­ry Dance and Dance Pe­dago­gy.</p>
<p>Her core back­ground was bal­let but her eye-ope­ning and trans­for­ma­ti­ve pa­thway from clas­si­cal to con­tem­po­ra­ry dance, was pos­si­ble thanks to many te­a­chers. An­drea Bold, the first boun­da­ry chal­len­ger, in­tro­du­ced dif­fe­rent per­spec­ti­ves on how to read and com­po­se mo­ve­ment. Mar­tin Son­der­kamp brought re­lease tech­ni­que to Jo­an­na&rs­quo;s ex­pe­ri­ence with the body and gra­vi­ty while Jo­han­nes Ran­dolf and Jia­nan Qu were her men­tors for dance tech­ni­que and flo­or work.</p>
<p>Jo­an­na&rs­quo;s in­te­rest in the no­ti­on of awa­re­ness, in­te­gra­ti­on and pre­sence in the body has led her to working with pat­terns th­rough im­pro­vi­sa­ti­on and so­ma­tic prac­ti­ces. She is fa­sci­na­ted by struc­tu­re and dy­na­mic ma­ni­fes­ta­ti­ons in hu­man re­la­ti­ons and their in­ter­con­nec­ted­ness in ever­y­day life. Du­ring a work­shop on So­cial Cho­reo­gra­phy with Mi­cha­el Kli­en, her im­pro­vi­sa­to­ry work was a key tool for ob­ser­va­tions on dance crea­ti­on. She is de­ve­lo­ping a re­se­arch ba­sed prac­ti­ce, sourcing from the ques­ti­on of know­ledge trans­mis­si­on in the scope of a work with pat­terns. Jo­an­na is en­rol­led at Ma CoDE in 2019. &nbsp; &nbsp;</p>