Artistic Leading Ensemble
Meet the Artistic Leading Ensemble and what they are teaching for the A!KO TANZ FEST 2025: a vibrant collective of exceptional artists hailing from both national and international countries. This year’s ensemble brings together diverse talents and creative voices from across disciplines, each contributing their unique perspective and expertise.
LiLi Jung In Lee (AT/KR)
LiLi Jung In Lee (Lee Jung In CREATION), is a renowned Choreographer rooted in the realms of dance and convergence, actively engaging in creations both in Korea and Europe. Additionally, she is a Ph.D. researcher at the Kunstuniversität Linz.
https://www.instagram.com/lee_jung_in_creation/
for A!KO 2025:
Ballet for Contemporary Dancers
Description: A ballet-based training designed for contemporary dancers to develop body awareness, rhythm, and individual presence through clear, grounded movement sequences.
Selina Nowak aka Zelina Power (AT)
Selina Nowak, known as Zelina Power, is a wrestler, performer, and fight choreographer based in Vienna. She performs in wrestling rings, theatre productions, and films in Europe, the UK, and Mexico. Her artistic practice merges acting, acrobatics, circus, and sport. She develops original characters and movement sets, using wrestling as a form of physical storytelling. In addition to her performance work, she is also active as a stage and costume designer.
for A!KO 2025:
Theatre Wrestling
A physical storytelling workshop blending wrestling, dance, and character work — exploring conflict, acrobatics, and theatrical fight choreography through an inclusive, performative lens.
Tura Gómez Coll (ES)
Tura Gómez Coll is a freelance dancer and choreographer from Barcelona. She graduated from Institut del Teatre (Barcelona) and Codarts (Rotterdam), and has performed with international companies and choreographers such as André Gingras, Marguerite Donlon, and Jiří Kylián (Baltic Dance Theater). After engagements in Germany, Poland, and Iceland, she joined Landestheater Linz in 2016 and has since been working in Austria with choreographers including Valerio Iurato, Jung-in Lee, and Filip Löbl. She is co-founder of the dance collective Sense Pell and teaches floorwork-based technique classes emphasizing energy efficiency and grounded movement exploration.
for A!KO 2025:
Contemporary Dance
A dynamic floorwork class focused on grounding, energy transfer, and smooth transitions – starting slow and building into expansive, fluid movement rooted in core strength and relaxed control.
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Fernando Domínguez Rincón (MX)
Fernando Domínguez Rincón (Mexico, 1987) holds a Bachelor’s degree in Contemporary and Modern Dance (2011, CODARTS Dance) and a Master’s degree in Choreography (2023, CODARTS – FONTYS), both completed in the Netherlands. He has built a multifaceted career as a dancer, teacher, choreographer, dramaturg, and dance filmmaker. As the Founder and Director of FDR DANCE, he has produced international exchange projects between Europe and Mexico, collaborating with renowned European institutions and dance companies. As a choreographer, he has created works for companies such as CODARTS Dance Company, Jason Mabana | Rambert School, IAB- Institute of the Arts Barcelona, Ballets de San Juan Puerto Rico, CEPRODAC, Hamburg Dance Company, and TCUNAM.
for A!KO 2025:
Contemporary and Rep.
Tailored for professional dancers and advanced students with foundational knowledge of modern techniques, this class emphasizes the interplay between the torso and legs through combinations of flexion, extension, rebound, and falls.
Izabela Iza Soldaty (AT)
Izabela Soldaty is a dancer, dance educator, architect, and urban planner. She holds a BA in Dance and Dance Pedagogy (2016) and a BA in Architecture and Urban Planning (2011). Her practice bridges visual and performance art. She focuses on contemporary dance, improvisation, contact improvisation, and various somatic methods such as Pilates and yoga. Currently, she works as a designer and movement teacher.
for A!KO 2025:
Contact Improvisation
Exploring movement through improvisation, somatic awareness, and spatial perception – a practice at the intersection of dance and spatial design.
Dance Lab & Theater Lab:
Working toward immersive performative formats. A space for shared choreographic exploration focusing on themes of digital identity, embodiment, courage and protest – developed collaboratively with the artistic ensemble of Digital Shadows.
Valerio Iurato (IT)
Valerio Iurato is a dancer and choreographer born in Sicily. He trained in Ballroom, Argentinian Tango, classical, and contemporary dance at I.D.A. in Ravenna and R.C.P.D. in Madrid. He performed as a soloist with Tanz Linz (2015–2021) and was a member of Imperfect Dancers Company. As a freelance choreographer and teacher, he develops his own training method grounded in physical awareness and high-performance research.
for A!KO 2025:
Dance Lab
Valerio is designing the public forms and shapes of our our humanized digital shadows in forms of choreographic patters or movement sequences as the lead choreographer for the project "Digital Shadows" in cooperation with the Ars Electronica Festival.
The Dance Lab and Theater Lab will be supported by the artistic Ensemble of the Lit Project Digital Shadows for the Ars Electronica Festival 2025:
Ilona Roth (DE/AT) #Artistic Direction Digital Shadows, Collaborative Vision
Simon Sharkey (GB) #Immersive Storytelling, Social Transformation
https://www.thenecessaryspace.com/
Doris Roth (DE) #Science & Performance, Embodied Research
Alina Lugovskaya (RU) #Urban Contemporary Movement, Expressive Presence