Head of MAD

Elisabeth Löffler

loeffler[at]mad-dance[dot]at

Has been living and working as an artist in the field of dance and performance for 20 years. Elisabeth Löffler lives in Vienna and has been working as an artist in the dance and performance sector for twenty years. She is a co-founder of LizArt Productions.

Her latest piece, "Fix me if you can," premiered in January 2019 in co-production with Brut/Wien, directed by Poelstra, with dramaturgy by Wanunu. Before that, she presented "The Audition for the Role of Stephen Hawking in The Theory of Everything," which she performed together with the performer Cornelia Scheuer, directed by Yosi Wanunu in 2013 at the Kosmostheater in Vienna, and later at ImPulsTanz 2017 as well as at the Tampere Theatre Festival in Finland.

Löffler was a founding member of the mixed-ability dance group Bilderwerfer (artistic direction: Daniel Aschwanden), with which she had numerous national and international performances. In addition, she created solos and

collaborated with other artists, including Yosi Wanunu / toxic dreams and Ambitus – a group for new music, where she performed her own texts as an interpreter.

Sophia Rubarth
rubarth[at]mad-dance[dot]at

Born in 1994, she completed her studies at the Universität für Bodenkultur Wien, the University of Zagreb, and Banat University of Timișoara as a joint degree and was simultaneously engaged with various organizations in child and youth work.

Her interest in dance and movement as a form of art and communication, along with her great joy in working with children and young people, led Sophia Rubarth from her role in project organization and knowledge management at the consulting company ÖSB Consulting to the Mellow Yellow project and thus to the MAD association.

Steffi Proßegger
prossegger[at]mad-dance[dot]at

Born in 1986, has been living in Vienna for 20 years.

She studied Media Informatics and Visual Computing at TU Vienna and now combines her knowledge from commercial training with IT.

Since 2014, she has been supporting and assisting various MAD projects within the organization as part of the MAD team. In February 2015, she also participated artistically in SWAYING Vienna in the lecture performance TAB Temporarily Abled Bodies at Tanzquartier Vienna.