Mariella Greil is a performer, choreographer and researcher. 2014-17 she is Key Researcher in the FWF funded project Choreo-graphic Figures. Deviations from the Line in collaboration with Nikolaus Gansterer & Emma Cocker, where she examines the choreographic means in its expansion. Previously, she was in London Associate Researcher of the artistic research project performance matters. She works in the team of the basic income dance, the Viennese collective somatic extasy and the artists initiative Sweet&Tender Collaborations.
Together with Vera Sander, Mariella has taken over the development of the artistic-content conception of the Biennial 2016 and the management of the Think Tanks I & II and the AKT-training workshops. She will be professionally accompanying the group of MA students that is taking part in the Biennale and facilitates the roundtable Forms of Research.