love letters 
(a series)

solo performance  (20´)
2025
photo: Hazem Wakaf
photo: Anita KayaWith two voices, yet one body, the performer’s inner dialogue becomes audible. A conversation, or rather a chaotic duet between the artist and herself ensues. Through dance, comedic misunderstandings and melancholic melodies, the performer unfolds the story of a love letter and its disappearance.

What stays is the playful documentation of what it feels like to be a person - an invitation to rest within a microcosm of vulnerability.

Performances:
Kultursommer, Wien (AT) - 2026
Lange Nacht der Bühnen @ Ars Electronica, Linz (AT) - 2026
TIME.OUT 14 Opening @ Ars Electronica, Linz (AT) - 2026
ISI Festival @ Im Flieger, Wien (AT) - 2026
Women’s Day @ Ars Electronica, Linz (AT) - 2026
HAUSBESUCHE Festival, Linz (AT) - 2025
Ars Electronica Festival Campus, Linz (AT) - 2025
Kultursommer, Wien (AT) - 2025
Raumschiff, Linz (AT) - 2025

Developed during the Artist in Residence program in SILK Fluegge KLISCOPE.

Ariathney Coyne
concept, choreography, performer, sound design, visual artist
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Nests in Flight

collaborative performance and research
2025
photo credits: Sophie Netzer
Nests in Flight approaches performance as a collective practice of remembrance. Movement, voice, music, and improvisation are interwoven with the architecture of their given context, giving rise to a sensitive choreography of listening.

Drawing on methods such as Deep Listening, Viewpoints, and Action Theater, the artists investigate questions of trust, care, and safe spaces. The performance unfolds across interior and exterior locations, responding both to the physical traces of their environment and to the movements of its visitors.

Bodies inscribe themselves into space, voices evoke fragments of memory, and fleeting images suggest alternative ways of living together.

Residencies & Showings:
Yachtclub, Kirchberg am Wagram (AT) - 07.2026
Plum Yard, Malovice (CZ) - 04.2026
Sonnenstein Loft, Linz (AT) - 01.2026

Credits:
Ariathney Coyne & Daniela Hanelová
concept, choreography, dancer, performer
Odysseas Manidakis
composition, sound design, performer
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Inner Radiance

multi-media dance performance
2026
photo: Sara Bravin

photo: Kevin Blackistone How can we perceive worlds lying hidden within us, and how can excavating the unseen of the human organism help us better internalize our commonalities? This is investigated here via live ultrasound — generating 3D volumes of dancers whose interiors expand into the immersive environment of Deep Space; choreographically performing within their interior selves — representationally and abstractly — to engage with medical technology beyond its diagnostic contexts and surface visual biases.
Performances:
Ars Electronica Festival, Linz (AT) - 2026
Ars Electronica Center, Linz (AT) - 2026
Credits:
Kevin Blackistone
concept, visual design, music composition
Ariathney Coyne & Laura Gagliardi
choreography, dancer, performer
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Funded by:Linz Media Arts Award
Land Oberösterreich 

UniversEye

mixed-media dance performance (24’00)
2024
photo credits: Philip Brunnader



UniversEye is an immersive audiovisual performance, created with the dance company TANZ LINZ in collaboration with the Ars Electronica Center and the Art University of Linz. 
Over several months, dance and audio-visual artists collaborated to create a performance inspired by themes such as the four elements, belonging, individuality and love. Through a consistently transdisciplinary approach, the artists create an otherworldly performance, where live visuals and movement continuously inspire and inform each other. 
Performances:
Ars Electronica Festival, Linz (AT) - 2024
Ars Electronica Center, Linz (AT) - 2024
Credits:
Yuteng Huang 
concept and choreographer
Ariathney Coyne 
visual programming and live visuals 
Lynn Maya 
visual programming live visuals and sound artist 
Emilia Vogt
live camera
Elena Sofia Bisci, Matteo Cogliandro, Katharina Illnar, Pavel Povrazník, Nicole Stroh, Pedro Tayette, S. Arthur Sicilia, Elisa Lodolini, Ilia Dergousoff, Angelica Mattiazzi (Tanz Linz)
dancers

ESOPTRON

short dance film (11’36)
2020 - 2023
photo: Georgi Sarkezi

photo: Daniel Bierdümpfl

photo: Alžběta Medlová ESOPTRON is a short dance film, based on the dance duet of the same title. The project is the artists’ response to the changes which accompanied the COVID pandemic and explores the themes of touch, seclusion, and the necessity for physical contact.
The project was tightly linked to the collaboration with  the composer Joan Goméz Alemany, who created the musical score and Aleks Kaplun, who hand-crafted custom masks for the performers. These two elements played a defining role in the final narrative and choreography. During production, the film location (an active quarry in Upper Austria) became the third defining feature and character of the film.
Festivals (selection):
 Lens Dans Festival, Brussels (BE) - 2023
Mill of Performing Arts, Larissa (finalist) (GR) - 2023
KUNST_FILM_TAGE, Rosenheim (DE) - 2023
Dance On Screen, Graz (AT) - 2023
InShadow Festival, Lisbon (PT) - 2023
Credits:
Ariathney Coyne & Daniela Hanelová 
concept, choreography, performer, director, producer
Joan Goméz Alemany
orginial composition
Aleks Kaplun
mask designer
Daniel Bierdümpfl, Alžběta Medlová & Georgi Sarkezi
camera
Klára Neumannová
edit
Daniel Haas
sound design 
Vojtěch Štetka
color
Philip Steiner
production assistant
Eva Stöflin 
BTS photographer
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Funded by:Kunstuniversität Linz
Anton Bruckner Privatuniversität Linz

Lost Iterations

experimental short film (3’18)
2023


Lost Iterations is a convergent film, approaching abstraction and narration. A random reconfiguration of light, movement, cameras, and humans, leads to organic, hypnotic, and abstract visuals. The artists playfully experiment with complementary concepts. Movement and stillness, human and machine, and their protagonist: light and its shadow. Through thorough curation, they create an autonomous being, free to run and dream, as a story of stillness, life, death, and rebirth glitches through.
Festivals & showings:
 Crossing Europe Film Festival, Linz (AT) - 2024
House Of Arts, 808Club, Linz (AT) - 2024
Gwangju Media Arts Festival, Gwangju (KR) - 2023
Credits:Ariathney Coyne 
concept, director, camera
Hazem Wakaf
director, camera, editor

LEKANI

mixed-media dance performance 
(12’ - 25’)
2022 - ongoing
photo: Hazem Wakaf



 LEKANI is an immersive audiovisual contemporary dance performance. Inspired by the panopticon of Michel Foucalt, the artists recreate a closed, guarded environment, resulting in a recursive relationship between surveillance and supervision. The traditional observation tower is replaced by digital cameras placed around the performance space, so that dancers are situated at the intersection between their physical and digital appearance. 

The powers that surveil society are invisible to the surveilled. These powers are abstract and self-regulating - applied from all angles. The boundaries between observation and surveillance become blurred. Artists and audience are immersed in a contemporary and explicit panopticon. We are the observers observing ourselves.
Performances:
Ars Electronica Festival, Linz (AT) - 2023
Women’s Day Ars Electronica Center, Linz (AT) - 2023
Ars Electronica Festival, Linz (AT) - 2022
Credits:  
Alejandra Benet & Lucia Mauri
concept, choreography, performance
Ariathney Coyne
concept, choreography, performance, visual artist
Sara Koniarek
concept, visual artist, live visuals
Julia Moser
costume design
Daphne Xanthopoulou
composition, sound design
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flowers, bodies and STONES

site-specific performance (60’00)
2023
photo: Robert Maybach
 flowers, bodies and STONES opens as a parcours through the spaces of OK. Hybrid beings move in fragmented environments, accompanied by in/organic material. Bodies root themselves and branch out across the museum’s floors until they finally reach its rooftop. They interweave the gallery spaces through means of rhizomatic relations and timelines. In/stability, transformation, decay and the un/canny are the motifs of the immersive performance by Claudia Bosse with students from the Institute of Dance Arts of the Anton Bruckner Private University and the Kunstuniversität Linz.
Performance:
Hybrid Bodies Festival, OK Platz Linz (AT) - 2023
Credits:
Claudia Bosse
concept, choreography
Alejandra Benet, Jiaji Cheng, Ariathney Coyne, Arkadiusz Hryb, Laura Gagliardi, Polina Kliuchnikova, Neža Kokalj, Kristina Kollarova, Veronika Maidukova, Lucia Mauri, Veronica Pace, Emilia Vogt, Sofiia Zeifert dancers/performers

Polychoros

immersive dance performance (10’00)
2022
photo: Florian Voggeneder
 Polychoros by Ariathney Coyne, Vahid Ghaderi and Georgios Tsampounaris takes the audience on a personal journey, going through the five stages of needs in order to achieve self-actualization. Here, the human dancer in physical space merges with a performer in virtual space, the immersive projection surface of Deep Space 8K. The performative duet unites the supposedly contradictory nature of their existence. The expressive dance performance was part of the Night Performances during the Futurelab Day of the Ars Electronica Festival 2022.
Performance:
Futurelab Performances, Ars Electronica Festival Linz (AT) - 2022
Credits:
Georgios Tsampounaris
director, concept, visual programming, stage-based interaction, live visuals 
Ariathney Coyne
choreography, performance
Vahid Ghaderi
sound design and composition