Nicki Liszta

Nicki Liszta (*1980) studied contemporary dance at the Hogeschool voor de Kunsten, Tilburg, The Netherlands. Since graduating in 2006, she has worked as a choreographer and director in the contemporary dance and theater scene. Since 2009 as a guest lecturer at various art colleges. As part of the artistic direction of backsteinhaus produktion, she has realized numerous collaborations and own productions since 2008 and received various awards and nominations with these works, such as for the Georg Tabori Prize 2018. Since 2016, the group backsteinhaus produktion has been deeply connected with the Theater Rampe in Stuttgart. From here they work on narrative in dance, experimenting with site-specific works, with the alternation between outdoor and indoor spaces, and with staged overrides. Thematically, backsteinhaus produktion thus controversially reflect images from current events and discourses and develop grotesque distorted images of our society between pathos and comedy. As an artist and participant in various teams, Nicki Liszta is particularly interested in breaking up unhealthy structures and the ideal of power-free, expertise-based work.