A!KO Team 2025 | A Ko Tanz Fest

FESTIVAL TEAM

LiLi Jung In Lee /Artistic Director

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. Her primary objective is to broaden the spectrum of dance performance through innovative experiments and collaborations with various artistic disciplines. Since 2010, she has been collaborating with organizations based in Austria, Denmark, Bulgaria, and Hungary successfully extending her creations in the world. Alongside her project troupe, she reaches out to a diverse global audience through extended productions, live performances, and online ventures. She is teaching her movement method at Arts institutions and universities in Korea, U.S, Europe countries, alongside ongoing performance tour around world. In 2022, She organized new dance platform 'A!KO TANZ' to make dance connection between Austria and Korea and planning the festival since with suppport from Sonnenstein LOFT, CID Vienna Section, several Arts Foundations in Korea.

Damian Cortes Alberti /Producer

Damián Cortés Alberti is a multifaceted artist born in Argentina. He studied dance at the Universidad Nacional del Arte (UNA), at the dance school Arte XXI, and at the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires. In 2019 he acquired the academic degree of Master of Arts, Dance Education from the Anton Bruckner Prvaruniversität Linz. In addition, he studied Argentine Tango with renowned teachers, Theatre at the National University of Córdoba (U.N.C), and violin at the Suzuki Method Córdoba. After moving to Europe in 2008 he developed an intense career as a dancer in the companies Art Transit Dansa, Barcelona, the ensemble of the Staatstheater Darmstadt, Germany, and later the Landestheater Linz, Austria. Since 2016 Damian is a member of Cie Of(f) Verticality, Austria, also has been actively involved as freelance dancer, choreographer and dance teacher in different productions and institutions in Austria, Croatia, Germany, Belgium, Macedonia, Slovenia and South Korea. He currently teaches at the Anton Bruckner Privatuniversität and works as a researcher in the project Atlas of Smooth Spaces, Notating, Communicating and Composing Spaces in Audio-Corporeal Practices funded by the Austrian Science Fund for Arts-based Research. He is a board member of Red Sapata Kulturinitiative, and co-producer of A!KO Dance Festival.

Gisela Klammsteiner / Project Management

Gisela Klammsteiner a textile artist and social designer, a graduate of the University of Arts Linz, as well as a project manager and art and culture mediator from Austria.

Her projects focus on artistic and collaborative processes as well as social sustainability and wellbeing. For the A!KO TANZ FEST, she is responsible for coordination and organizational tasks.

Tanja Kurz / Public Relation

Tanja Kurz completed her Bachelor's degree in Communication at Paris-Lodron University Salzburg in 2022. Since then, she has worked in marketing and public relations across various industries while continuing her studies to pursue a Master's degree in her field.

Currently, she works for RedSapata Culturalinitiative, where she is primarily responsible for external communication with the association’s diverse target audiences. Her responsibilities include marketing, press relations, web design, content creation for various channels, and managing several social media networks. Her work focuses on target group-specific marketing, climate-friendly cultural operations, and sociopolitical topics.