Nicole Haitzinger

Portrait von Univ.-Prof. Dr. Nicole HaitzingerFoto © Hubert Auer

Univ.-Prof. Dr. Nicole Haitzinger
Chair of the interuniversity doctoral program in science and arts; Co-chair of the postgraduate program Curating the Performing Arts

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, history and aesthetics of the performing arts from the 16th century until now
  • Resonating the Tragic: Figure and chorus
  • Concepts of staging, bodies, movement and efficacy (in their various historical formats)
  • Modernity as plurality
  • Staging Europe
  • Decolonial thought: performing arts
  • Curating 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, Modernity as Plural, Staging Europe, BodyPolitics, Decoloniality in the Performing Arts and Curating Performative 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 [October 2024]

 Resonanzen des Tragischen. Zwischen Ereignis und Affekt (Turia+Kant, 2015).

Recent pubilication: Chatterjee, Sandra; Haitzinger, Nicole: Evocations of the Sun in Modernity. Performing Egypt between Egyptomania, the Avant-Garde, and Identification. In:  Journal of Avant-Garde Studies 4 (2024), 47–67.

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], Stiftungs- und Fördergesellschaft der Paris-Lodron Universität Salzburg: 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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