Expanded Choreographies – Choreographic Histories: Trans-Historical Perspectives Beyond Dance and Human Bodies in Motion

Anna Leon is a dance historian working in and through research, curatorial theory projects, teaching and dance/performance dramaturgy. Currently, she is theory curator at Tanzquartier Wien and post-doctoral research fellow at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, where she researches peripheralised dance modernities through a focus on ballet in early 20th-century Greece. Her curatorial work includes the ongoing projects Radio (non-)conference with Netta Weiser and Choreography+ with Johanna Hilari. She has taught at the Universities of Vienna, Salzburg and Bern, the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and SEAD. Her first book, Expanded Choreographies - Choreographic Histories, was published in 2022.