Faculty

Ruth Burmann

MA

Lector for Dance⋅Elemental Music & Dance Education – Orff Institute⋅Institute for Open Arts

Ruth Burmann (*1968 in Salzburg) studied music and dance education (with a focus on dance) at the University Mozarteum, and between 1993-1995 she took dance training in choreography, modern dance and dance pedagogy at the Salzburg Experimental Academy of Dance (SEAD). She taught modern dance and tango argentino at the University Sports Institute and was active in Orff teacher training in Upper Austria, Salzburg and Taiwan. She taught modern dance and children's dance at SEAD and held a teaching position at music secondary schools in Pongau and Upper Austria. Since 1999 she has been an adjunct lecturer in dance at the University Mozarteum and was active at the Thomas Bernhard Institute from 1999-2008.

As a dancer she was a member of the Susan Quinn Dance Company, Robert Wechsler (Palindrom), Beda Percht (Cateracts) Hubert Lepka (Lawine Torren) and the Donna Jewell Company.

Her choreographic work is characterised by her collaboration with artists such as Frey Faust, Bert Gstettner, Donna Jewell, Susan Quinn and Helmi Vent. Artistic and artistic-educational projects have taken her to the USA, Cyprus, Malta and Turkey as well as to Germany, the Czech Republic and Taiwan.

She has worked together with musicians, composers and visual artists such as Benjamin Schmid, André Ruschkowski, Arabella Lorenz, Pericles Douvitsas, Michael Mautner, Walther Derschmidt, Josef Ramsauer, Alexander von Pfeil, Vivian Simburger, Andreas Kuhnlein Simburger, Andreas Kuhnlein, Paul Raas, Cecilio Pereira, Marina Razumovskaja, Cora Krötz, Ari Glage & Dieter Huber.