Saskia Hölbling

In 2002 in collaboration with the Wiener Taschenoper she produced the two music-theatre productions Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda by Claudio Monteverdi and A-Ronne by Luciano Berio.

In 2009 Hölbling went into theatre direction for the first time and together with students of the Max Reinhardt Seminar produced Die Hamletmaschine (by Heiner Müller).

As a dancer Saskia Hölbling has also been involved in works by Bob Wilson (USA), the W. Dorner company (Austria), Laurent Pichaud (France) and Benoît Lachambre (Canada) among others, and she also gives workshops at the Konservatorium der Stadt Wien (Vienna Conservatory) in the field of “contemporary dance” and gives seminars at the Max Reinhardt Seminar for actors at the University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna.

In June 2009 Hölbling worked as a mentor, taking over the coaching for young choreographers in the framework of Stückwerk09 at the Tanzquartier Wien, in a joint project with the University of Vienna.

In 2000 she received the Prix d’Auteur du Conseil Général de Seine-Saint Denis/Bagnolet for Do your desires still burn, and in 2002 she was awarded the Austrian Dance Production Prize for other feature.