OLIVIA MITTERHUEMER, based in Salzburg, is a dancer, choreographer and dance teacher with a focus on House Dance and Hip Hop Freestyle. Her curiosity for African-American dance styles brought her to various productions and to stages and festivals such as brut Vienna, ImpulsTanz Vienna, Palace of Fine Arts San Francisco, Dock11 Berlin, DANCENET Sweden or KoresponDance Prague. She has worked with Marinella Senatore, Julia Schwarzbach, Valentin Alfery, Cornelia Böhnisch and more. With her company Potpourri Dance, she has created her own pieces Houseward Bound, 4 A.M. (in co-production with brut Wien), Friend.shift, PUSH (with Offensive Tanz Berlin) and VAKUUM (co-production with SZENE Salzburg) since 2019. She deepened her artistic work during residencies in St. Gallen, Dakar, Paris and Vienna. She has shared her passion for teaching internationally, including in Cape Town, Colombo and Manila, as well as in Austria at Salzburg Festival, ImpulsTanz and the ORFF Institute.
More recently, her focus has shifted toward academic and research-based contexts: Olivia teaches at SEAD, has been invited as a guest lecturer at the University of Salzburg and the Mozarteum, and in 2025 she contributed to the scientific study Tanz Mit! on dance, health and social participation. As co-founder of the internationally renowned Hip Hop & House Dance festival Flavourama in Salzburg, she also travels throughout Europe as an opinion leader, sharing her experiences as both a female organizer and artist. Collaborations have taken place with La Place Paris, Streetstar Stockholm and Pure House Vilnius.
In 2020 Olivia Mitterhuemer was awarded the annual scholarship for performance of the Country of Salzburg, in 2022 the start-up grant for music and performing arts by BMKÖS. In 2024, Farah Deen and Olivia Mitterhuemer received the City of Salzburg’s award for art and culture for their year-long work.
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