Simon Mayer (BE/AT)

BIOGRAPHY

Simon Mayer is performer, choreographer and musician. He was born in Austria in 1984 and studied at the Vienna State Opera Ballet School, at the Performing Arts and Research Studios in Brussels (P.A.R.T.S.) and was a member of the Vienna State Opera Ballet. 
He was singer and played the bass in the heavy metal band C.O.P and founded his band Rising Halfmoon as a singer, songwriter and guitarist in 2009. In 2014 Simon Mayer released his music album Monkeymind, followed by SunBengSitting, Sons of Sissy, Oh Magic and the singles Dunkler Schatz and Strong Man.

As a dancer, choreographer and musician he worked amongst others for Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker / Rosas (The Song), Wim Vandekeybus (Frisking)
and Zita Swoon. He choreographed several solos, duos, group performances, works for public spaces and worked as choreographer and director for opera productions which are internationally presented (O feather of lead, Dancing with the soundhobbyist/zita swoon, Kopf hoch, Monkeymind, SunBengSitting, Sons of Sissy, Oh Magic, Requiem, Volxfest, Gaz/Opera Nuova etc.).

He received the outstanding artist award from the Austrian Chancellery in 2017 and the Annerkennungspreis des Lande Oberösterreich in 2018. Simon is curator and co-curator of several festivals (Tanzplan Ost/Switzerland, Ecstatic Body Festival/TQW Vienna, etc.) and together with his association spiel he organizes the international artfestival SPIEL.

Simon Mayer teaches contemporary dance, community dance, traditional dance, voice techniques and folktrance/cognitive trance workshops together with Corine Sombrun (ImPulsTanz Vienna, steirischer herbst, and other international festivals, ...) and is a guest teacher at Music and Arts University of Vienna. 

08.07.2020

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