I am an artist, choreographer, dramaturg and Somatic Movement Educator in Body-Mind Centering®, based in Vienna. My artistic research focusses on intersections of embodiment, ecology, neuroaesthetics and performance.
Besides Body-Mind Centering, I have also studied the Six Viewpoints (the work of Mary Overlie), Laban/Bartenieff Movement Studies and Chinese Martial Arts. I hold a BA Hons in Choreography with Community Practices from Dartington College of Arts.
Sebastian Bechinger
“…Artists are, in some sense, neurologists — studying the brain with techniques that are unique to them, but studying the brain and it’s organisation none-the-less.”
—Semir Zeki
Ongoing enquiries
Neuroaesthetics
If there is a biological basis for perception, what implications does this have for this thing we call “the arts?”
If the arts have a biological function, what is it?
Somatic Philosophy
What if we approach practices of embodiment, not so much as a vehicle for “health and wellbeing” but about a way of knowing?
Deconstruction and Composition
What happens when you reduce the thing we call “performance” to it’s bare bones and make from there...? How can we enter into a dialogue with what Mary Overlie calls the “primordial materials” — the ever present materials of perception, movement and space which have a life and a mind of their own?
“When friends unfamiliar with our work ask me what we do, I tell them: we use text, but not to tell a standard theatrical narrative or story; and we use movement, though it’s not what you would expect by the term “dance.” And combining those texts and movements creates something beyond those individual components of text and movement, and the best word we have for that is “performance.”
Matthew Goulish — Letter to a Young Practitioner, Goat Island
Newsletter / Blog / Podcast
I put out a weekly newsletter/blog with musings on art, choreography, and Somatics. Please check it out — you can look at it before you subscribe. There is a possibility of just getting irregular updates about stuff I’m doing — classes, performances, etc.— if you don’t want the weekly musings.