Dancer | Choreographer
Dance * Theater * Somatic Facilitator
Cultural Manager
As freelance artist Lina Lev has lived and worked so far in Hamburg, Berlin, Heidelberg, São Martinho das Amoreiras, and Tel Aviv, before returning to her hometown Vienna in 2024 after 13 years abroad.
Throughout her artistic and professional journey, she has cultivated a vast network within the international dance and performance scene. In close collaboration with a diverse range of artists and collectives—including Patricia C. Mai, Deichkind, Cie. Willi Dorner, Katia Reshetnikova, Max Makowski, Anna K. Nemeth, and Cy Linke—she has realized multifaceted pieces at the intersection of dance and performance. As a co-founder of a dance and arts collective, she has also developed various solo and group works. Within the independent ensemble Kollektiva., she took on fluid roles as a dancer, choreographer, and outside eye, as well as production lead and company manager.
Her commitment also extends to facilitating dance and theatre projects for children and young people of different ages and cultural backgrounds. Drawing from her own multicultural roots, she seeks to empower them to find their own path and expression. This work allows her to foster an inspiring balance between social engagement, structural organization, and artistic depth. She deepened her experience in holding space for others by working as a body- and movement therapist in a psychosomatic clinic with both adults and children.
Lina Levs broad repertoire informs her work in production and cultural management, shaping a form of organization that goes far beyond mere logistics. With a holistic lens and a grounded presence, she transforms complex requirements into fluid processes - enriching institutions such as Deutsches Schauspielhaus Hamburg, Thalia Theatre, Theatre und Orchester Heidelberg, Theatre Heilbronn and SEAD – Salzburg Experimental Academy of Dance. Her impact has also shaped formats including ImPulsTanz, Heidelberger Stückemarkt, Tanz! Heilbronn, Tanz im August, Theater der Welt, StadtLesen and Tanzbiennale - some of the most high-profile dance and theatre festivals in Europe.
Education
Starting her studies with a BA in International Development in 2008, Lina Lev became active in various NGOs focused on human rights and sustainable, common wealth-oriented ways of living. Her passion for art and the body led her to a BA in Dance Theatre and an MA in Dance Therapy, as well as an in-depth two year long Teacher Training in Somatic Dance, Authentic Movement and Contact Improvisation with Sabine Parzer at the Institute for Holistic Dance.
As a certified Kundalini Yoga teacher, she expanded her horizons through travels in India, Mexico, Israel, Guatemala, and the USA. During these years, she immersed herself in alternative ways of living beyond the norm and participated in hundreds of masterclasses, workshops, and retreats with outstanding international teachers in dance, yoga, contemplation and self-inquiry —gaining profound insights she now shares through her own workshops and retreats.
Artistic Statement
All of my research stems from a deep curiosity and an earnest search for honesty. My work centers on universal questions about life, guided by the desire to build bridges between people, ideas, and the unseen threads that connect us.
The body thus becomes a laboratory, a vessel, or an infinite space where the noise of the mind can finally fall silent, allowing us to listen in this stillness to the immense intelligence of our muscles and bones.
Art is a meeting point of feeling, inner movement, sensitivity, close observation, urgency, and delicate intuition. It creates a sanctuary for expression, connection, and reflection — a space that, in its very existence, inspires transformation.
BODIES IN URBAN SPACES by Cie Willi Dorner KunstFestSpiele Herrenhausen | Hannover (2019)
Hamonim by Patricia C. Mai Kampnagel | Hamburg (2019)
(OP)POSING BODIES by Lina Lev Kurpfälzisches Museum | Heidelberg (2022)
BODIES IN URBAN SPACES by Cie Willi Dorner KunstFestSpiele Herrenhausen | Hannover (2019)