Choreographer, performer, curator, lighting designer, cultural producer, video and photographer. Artistic director of Body Architects, Mind Culture Podcast and Craft Choreography.

He received academic degrees in Movement Research (M.A.) and Dance Pedagogy (M.A.) at the Anton Bruckner University in Linz. As a dancer, he has worked for various international choreographers such as Rose Breuss, Elio Gervasi, Georg Blaschke, Willi Dorner, Johanna Roggan, Robert Clark, Liv O'Donoghue, Juliette Villemin and Matjaz Faric. He was a DanceWEB scholarship holder in 2013 and has had many influential mentors on his artistic path, including Rui Horta, Martin Sonderkamp and Ivo Dimchev. His choreographic work has earned him numerous artistic residencies in Europe as well as in El Salvador, Mexico and Uganda. Hygin loves to collaborate with artists from various fields such as contemporary composition, visual arts or new media (in particular: Austrian Apparel, Hannes Kerschbaumer, Alex Chernyshkov, Marina Poulekhina, Ivan Shopov, Polina Stoyanova, Florian Voggeneder, Andreas Buttinger, Schayan Kazemi). In his movement research, he integrates approaches and philosophies of somatic methods and urban dance styles.

Photo: Noemi Wagner