about me
hello, my name is Levi. I’m a mindful mover, a holistic dance- and movement pedagogue, a queer-ecological activist, a creative connector, a holistic_transdisciplinary maker, a queer, trans_non-binary being, an empathetic holder of spaces, processes and change, and a collectivist dreamer, currently based in Vienna, Austria.
my passion is to create and hold spaces, in which transformations towards more sustainable_regenerative cultures of self, body, community, relationality, activism, work, and interconnectedness with the more-than-human world can occur. always from a queer-feminist perspective.
to do so, I connect my practices and knowledges of dance, embodiment, activism, science, art and lived experience.
I’ve been dancing since I was a child, but in my twenties academia and activism moved to the foreground or my interests. I studied Sociology, International Development Studies, Environmental Studies and Sustainability Science. My focus was mainly on socio-ecological justice, queer ecologies, and community strategies to hold the emotionalities of living and dying on a multicrises planet. I struggled in grappling with these topics mostly on a theoretical level, missing the tools to process on a deeper level, which led to mental health struggles and burnout. So I got more interested in sustainable activism and started creating participatory, co-creative spaces to process and exchange together. I also gave dance, movement, and embodiment practices more space in my life through ecosomatics, a training in holistic dance- and movement pedagogy and a training in integrative bodywork. These practices allowed me to process being in these world in more integrative, holistic ways, research how we can be on this planet together differently in more embodied ways, and also accompany others in their processing. It also immensely supported me in my transitioning journey and through processing loss and grief – mentally, emotionally, physically. I see embodiment, creativity, and collective care as three key elements that allow us to stay with the trouble, or even get out of this mess. So it’s my great joy and pleasure to create and hold spaces for individuals and groups to process, practice, embody, and transform together.
Education
* born 1992 in Villach, Austria
2010-2014 Bachelor of Arts in Sociology, University of Vienna, Austria
2011-2015 Bachelor of Arts in International Development Studies, University of Vienna, Austria
2016 Environmental Messenger at SEEDS, Iceland
2017-2019 co-founder of The Really Wild Show collective to reimagine sustainabilites, Lund/Malmö, Sweden
2016-2018 Master of Science in Environmental Studies and Sustainability Science, University of Lund, Sweden
2021-2022 Certification as a Holistic Dance- and Movement Pedagogue (Contact Improvisation, Authentic Movement, Contemporary Improvisation, Bodywork, Dance in Nature, Self-development, Pedagogy), Holistic Dance Institute, Vienna, Austria
2022-ongoing Advanced Teacher Training, Holistic Dance Institute, Vienna, Austria
2022-2023 Education in Integrative Bodywork, Institut für integrative Körperarbeit, Graz, Austria
2024-2025 Public Performance School with Claudia Bosse
2024-ongoing SomaSJ – Somatics & Social Justice Practice group with Staci Haines
further trainings in
– Focusing (Focusing Vienna, Austria)
– Non-violent communication (Gesprächskultur, Austria)
– Art of Hosting and cultural transformation + Train the Host-Certification (Pioneers of Change, Austria)
– Ecosomatics (Ponderosa, Germany)
– Dance (Impulstanz, Austria & other ongoing trainings)
teachers
Anya Cloud, Makisig Akin, Keith Hennessy, Ishmael Houston Jones, Charlie Morrissey, Sabine Parzer, Ingrid Huber, Perel, Elizabeth Ward, Malcolm Manning, Kira Kirsch, Claudia Bosse, Doris Uhlich, Steph Maher, Emma Bigé, A. Livingstone, David Bloom, Eva Karczag, Peter Pleyer …
selected work experience
2023-ongoing integrative bodyworker
2021-ongoing dance- and movement pedagogue
01/2020 – 07/2022 Coordinator Environmental Research Network, University of Vienna, AT
02/2019 – 11/2019 Independent research. Publication in and review activity for Special Issue of the ‘World Futures Journal
of New Paradigm Research’
10/2017 – ongoing Co-founder ‘The Really Wild Show’: transdisciplinary platform for creative
interventions (workshops, performances, interactive spaces) at sustainability sustainability events, SWE
10/2016 – 11/2016 Co-organizer ‘LundaKech 2016: Bringing COP22 to Lund’ event series, SWE
02/2016 – 07/2016 Environmental Messenger and International Workcamp Leader for 18+yrs, European Voluntary Service
at SEEDS Iceland, IS
03/2015 – 06/2015 Environmental educator for apprentices (15-19 y.) and co-author of ‘Green Events’ guidelines
project of the Sustainability Challenge 2015, BMWFW, AT
publications
- Second spring. (2022, poem written for Underland podcast)
Melancholie: eine Zu_tat für verbindende Wege aus der sozio-ökologischen Krise. (2022, Bildpunkt: Melancholia von Links)
- The chestnut, or regenerating relations. (2021, Frauensolidarität: Klimagerechtigkeit & Raumaneignung; with Giulia Andrighetto)
“Melancholic? Naturally!”: Impulses for Cultural Transformation from Queer-Ecological Worldmaking, Activism, and Art in a Western Context (2020, World Futures – The Journal of New Paradigm Research: Special Issue on Queer Convivialist Perspectives for Sustainabele Futures)
- Que(e)rdenker*innen united: politicizing ecological grief within Western cultures of unsustainability through impulses from queer ecological theory and practice (2018, Master thesis, University of Lund, Sweden)
- Do you even nature? (Podcast project, with Cecilia Jacques, Georgia Verkuylen, Tim Bauer, 2017)
performances
- 05.07.2025 holding waves, with the SPACEHOLDER collective, as part of Kultursommer 4lthangrund, Vienna, AT
- 06.06.2025 Making the mess sparkle. Solo performance at exhibition opening of waves: held in fluidity, Galerie Utopia, 4lthangrund, Vienna, AT
- 28./ 29. 05.2025 Habitat Herrenhauser Gärten, Hannover, with Doris Uhlich, DE
- 05.10.2024 The Space Holders, FLUCCC, Vienna, AT
- 27./29.09.2024 Habitat Staatstheater Wiesbaden, with Doris Uhlich, DE
- 5./8./10.09.2024 haunted landscapes on an unseen wasteland, with Claudia Bosse
- 25.10.2022 Sensing and Seeing, as part of the Holistic Dance Performance Ensemble @ Samdrubling, Vienna, AT
- 10.2017 1000 Tapesh, with SWIFT, Skanes Dansteater, SWE
publications
- Second spring. (2022, poem written for Underland podcast)
Melancholie: eine Zu_tat für verbindende Wege aus der sozio-ökologischen Krise. (2022, Bildpunkt: Melancholia von Links)
- The chestnut, or regenerating relations. (2021, Frauensolidarität: Klimagerechtigkeit & Raumaneignung; with Giulia Andrighetto)
“Melancholic? Naturally!”: Impulses for Cultural Transformation from Queer-Ecological Worldmaking, Activism, and Art in a Western Context (2020, World Futures – The Journal of New Paradigm Research: Special Issue on Queer Convivialist Perspectives for Sustainabele Futures)
- Que(e)rdenker*innen united: politicizing ecological grief within Western cultures of unsustainability through impulses from queer ecological theory and practice (2018, Master thesis, University of Lund, Sweden)
- Do you even nature? (Podcast project, with Cecilia Jacques, Georgia Verkuylen, Tim Bauer, 2017)
performances
- 05.07.2025 holding waves, with the SPACEHOLDER collective, as part of Kultursommer 4lthangrund, Vienna, AT
- 06.06.2025 Making the mess sparkle. Solo performance at exhibition opening of waves: held in fluidity, Galerie Utopia, 4lthangrund, Vienna, AT
- 28./ 29. 05.2025 Habitat Herrenhauser Gärten, Hannover, with Doris Uhlich, DE
- 05.10.2024 The Space Holders, FLUCCC, Vienna, AT
- 27./29.09.2024 Habitat Staatstheater Wiesbaden, with Doris Uhlich, DE
- 5./8./10.09.2024 haunted landscapes on an unseen wasteland, with Claudia Bosse
- 25.10.2022 Sensing and Seeing, as part of the Holistic Dance Performance Ensemble @ Samdrubling, Vienna, AT
- 10.2017 1000 Tapesh, with SWIFT, Skanes Dansteater, SWE