Verena Schneider is an interdisciplinary artist, dancer, handstand artist, and choreographer with a background in biology. She integrates movement disciplines into a sustainable performance practice rooted in contemporary dance, acrobatics, and hand balancing. Trained at FLIC Scuola di Circo and Le Lido, she has performed for choreographers like Bert Gstettner, Doris Uhlich, and Le GdRA. Co-founder of Kumquat and Vienna’s Freifall, she collaborates widely and received the 2024 DANCEWEB Scholarship. Currently pursuing an MA in Choreography, her research explores identity, the body’s ecology, and interdisciplinary performance. Her work has been shown internationally, including at WUK, WERK-X, and Centquatre Paris.
