Renate Graziadei,

born in Austria, began her dance training in Switzerland. She then went to New York for three years to study, live and work, most notably as a dancer for the Nina Wiener dance company. Upon her return to Europe, she worked with Rui Horta at the S.O.A.P. Dance Theatre Frankfurt and then moved on to the dance group COAX in Hamburg. In the fall of 1994 she established the LaborGras collective with Arthur Stäldi. Since then she has realised 15 own productions/projects with Arthur Stäldi and was involved in countless productions with other artists. In 1997 and 1998 she received a grant from the danceWEB programme during the ‘International Weeks of Dance’ in Vienna. In 1997 she was additionally profiled in the critic’s survey of the magazine ballet international / tanz aktuell as ‘upcoming female dancer’. Since 2005 she has been teaching contemporary technique regularly in various institutions internationally: as the training director for Sasha Waltz and Guests, at the Folkwang Hochschule, PARTS Brussels, the Opera national de Paris and offering workshops in Germany, Switzerland, Denmark, Columbia and Croatia, amongst others. Since summer 2004 she has been working as the co-rehearsal director for Sasha Waltz & Guests for the productions Impromptus, Dialoge 06 – Radiale Systeme, Medea, and Romeo & Juliette. Since 2008 she is also dancing with Sasha Walz & Guests in the projects Jagden and Formen and Dialoge 09. Her most intimate and longest collaboration has been with the choreographer David Hernandez. Since 1999 she has been closely involved in many of his productions and projects.