Andrea Amort
Andrea Amort (1958 in Linz) is an Austrian dance critic, dance historian, playwright, festival and exhibition curator as well as a non-fiction writer. Life. Andrea Amort studied modern dance and classical ballet with Erika Gangl and Andrei Jerschik in Linz, and Theatre Studies at the University of Vienna, where she received her doctorate in 1982 with a thesis on the story of the ballet of the Vienna State Opera from 1918 to 1942. From 1981 to 2009, she was a dance critic and sometimes also an editor and deputy director of the cultural department of Vienna's  Daily Kurier. Presently she writes for international media and trade magazines. After teaching at the Anton Bruckner Private University for Music, Drama, and Dance, she moved in 2003 to the Music and Arts University of the City of Vienna. She has lectured in London, Oxford and Paris and teaches at the University of Zurich, as well as working on documentary films. From 2009, she has worked as a curator for theatre, dance and performance on behalf of the city of Vienna, where she currently lives.