Johanna Tatzgern studied at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna. Since 1990 she was further educated in the field of "new dance“ (Contact Improvisation, Improvisation techniques, Authentic Movement and bodywork) and is DanceAbility trainer since 2006.
She accepted invitations to festivals, symposia, dance and visual art collaborations, scientific collaborations, realisations of installations and performances involving media, space and visual art.
In 1999 she founded the association Goldfluß Unlimited (conception and realisation of process-oriented projects in the social artistic field).
Since 1994 she is committed to projects with people with special needs including Institut Hartheim, Kunstraum Goethestraße – pro Mente.
Since 2007 she is working on the organisation of a dance/performance group Tanzmontage with the association Balance (an association for the integration and equal opportunities for people with special needs) and creates artistic projects such as "Inter-View" (together with Elke Krasny), "Eigensinn-Eigensicht" at the gallery 5020 Salzburg, photo-works (Museum auf Abruf, Vienna), "Synthese: Tanz –Film” (a videopresentation, Tepidarium, Peripher, curated by Bernadette Dewald, Filmcoop, Tanzquartier Vienna), "Portraits afterlife" (installation, performance, curated by Katherina Zakravsky, Academie van Eyck, Maastricht, Holland), "Aftermath of a Faun - Hybridtraining" (together with Katherina Zakravsky), "Interspirale" (installation/performance, Pushkinskaya, St. Petersburg, Russia), "Drängen & Sehnen" (ImPulsTanz, 8tension, as well as for the Künstlerhaus, a video for the solo work of Ingrid Reisetbauer,Vienna), "Between screens" (concept: Lisa Hinterreitner, performance/installation, Sommerszene 06 Salzburg), amongst many others.
2008
