ABOUT
Liv Schellander is an artist working in the fields of performing arts. She is a dancer/performer, choreographer, Somatic Experiencing (SE)® practitioner and process facilitator. She loves to collaborate with artists in different constellations and to engage in long-term processes. In 2019 she started to produce her own works.
Central to Liv's artistic activities is to view embodiment as a fundamental feature of thinking and relating to our world. In her recent works the relation between the individual and the collective, highlighting the body’s capacity as an active meaning-generating agent, is at the foreground.
Since 2023 she has been developing her practice of “Choreo-Constellating”, which is artistically researched and implemented in various projects. Liv is increasingly engaged with multisensory art making and the aesthetics of access within performing arts.
OWN PRODUCTIONS 2026 BIOFUCK by LIFT Collective 2025 Constellation#2 - #4 Shows for Futures 2024 Constellation#1 Dawn Obliges Us To Dream 2022 HYPERNURTURES 2021 Shows For Extinction 2021 Shows For Shows 2019 VOLUME 2016 Animalarium – A Pop Up Zoo
GRANTS / SCHOLARSHIPS Perform Europe 2025 / PACT Residency 2025 / FREIRAUM Residency 2025 / BMKÖS Dance and Performance Stipend 2024 / Riksteatern Stockholm Production Residency 2021 / ImFlieger Research Residency 2025 and 2021 / LifeLongBurning Residency at Veem House Amsterdam 2020 / Lower Austria Artist Stipend 2020 / Swedish Artist Grants Fund International Dance Residency 2019 / TURBO Residency for Choreographers ImPulsTanz Festival 2017 / P-BODIES Festival Leipzig Residency 2017 / DanceWeb Scholarship 2016 / LifeLongBurning SUSY Exchange Programme 2015 at UFERSTUDIOS Berlin / Tanzquartier Training Scholarship 2010 / Tanzquartier Stückwerk 2010 / Start Scholarship for Performing Arts 2010
BIOGRAPHY
Liv Schellander (she/her) is originally from Carinthia, Austria and is based in Vienna.
In 2026 she tours BIOFUCK with LIFT dance collective (Liv Schellander, Irene Giró, Fia/Sophia Neises, Tanja Erhart), and in 2025 her Perform Europe project Animalariums’ Constellations. She premiered her first solo work HYPERNURTURES (2022), and her trio collaboration VOLUME (2019), together with Sara Lanner and Jasmin Hoffer, at brut Wien. She has worked with Michael Turinsky in SOILED (2022) and Work Body (2025), and co-created With Or Without You (2023) with Sophia Neises and her team.
In 2023 she was a dramaturge for Daniela Georgieva and Hugo Le Brigand in FLUSCIA and an Outside Eye for An Evening With by Alex Franz Zehetbauer. In 2019 she worked with Doris Uhlich on the choreographic implementation of HABITAT/Halle E in Tanzquartier Wien, and with Manuel Pelmuș in Tricks for Tips at Steirischer Herbst Festival.
Liv Schellander studied at London Laban Conservatoire (BA Dance Theatre) and at the Institute of Dance Arts in Linz (MA Choreography). As a dancer and performer, she has worked among others with Michael Turinsky, Doris Uhlich, Manuel Pelmuș, Elizabeth Ward, Lisa Hinterreithner, Veza Fernandez, Deborah Hazler, Oleg Soulimenko, Claudia Lomoschitz, Peaches & Keith Hennessy, Lilo Nein, Valerie Oberleithner, El Conde de Torrefiel, Barockthegreat a.o
Liv has taught and facilitated workshops and artistic formats at Tanzquartier Vienna, Backpulver - Think and Practice Tank for Contemporary Dance, WUK performing arts, Anton Bruckner Private University Linz, ImPulsTanz Festival a.o. And facilitated mentoring and feedback sessions for Tender Steps Residency Artists and at TQW. From 2018 – 2021 she curated and headed Training & Workshops at Tanzquartier Wien – Center for Contemporary Choreography and Performance. She has trained to become a certified Somatic Experiencing (SE)® practitioner from 2021- 2024.
Recently she has become increasingly engaged in exploring multisensory art making and aesthetics of access in the field of performing arts. In March 2024 she participated in the The Art of Access conference at brut Wien. Since 2023 Liv has been developing her practice of (collective) “Choreo-Constellating”, which is artistically researched and implemented in various projects.
SUPPORT
Liv’s works have been presented at brut Wien, Tanzquartier Wien, WUK performing arts, Riksteatern Stockholm, Fylkingen Stockholm, 3:eVåningen, Gothenburg Contemporary Art Biennale, Ställbergs gruva, Ballhaus Ost, Kautokeino Culture house/Sápmi, MUMOK Vienna, Alpe Adria Gallery, ThePlace Theatre London, Posthof Linz, Vitlycke – Center for Performing Arts, STOFF Stockholm Fringe Festival, ImFlieger, Raw Matters Vienna, Angewandte Innovation Lab, Volkskundemuseum Vienna, Schäxpir Festival Linz, Dschungel Wien, Spleen Festival Graz, Theater Drachengasse, ARGE Salzburg, TanzTag Wien, Österreichisches Parlament.
Her projects have received support from the Cultural Department of the City of Vienna, BMWKMS Austria, Perform Europe, The Swedish Arts Grant Committee, Västra Götaland Regional Council, Göteborg City, Tanum municipality and ACT OUT, a project of the IG Freie Theaterarbeit, funded by BMEIA Austria.