Doris Uhlich (1977), one of the currently most renowned Austrian choreographers, often challenges the conventional portrayal of the body in her work. She questions and thematizes the western beauty ideal as well as the naturalness of the body and the norms that help shape the notion about our own bodies.
She studied pedagogy of contemporary dance at the Konservatorium der Stadt Wien and since 2006 has been developing her own projects. She made her mark already with one of her early choreographies, the first part of the later trilogy called SPITZE, where she confronted the ideology of classical dance in a rather nonconformist way. It was also the first colaboration with Susanne Kirnbauer.
Doris Uhlich was awarded the title Dance and Choreographer of the Year by German specialist magazine tanz multiple times. Together with the dancer Michael Turinsky, Doris Uhlich won the Nestroy Special Prize for the Ravemachine performance (2016) for “inclusion on an equal footing”. The production Every Body Electric (2018) was shortlisted for the prestigious dance festivals: Venice Biennale Danza as well as Bienal Sesc de Dança in São Paulo.

The 2023 Flora Theatre Festival featured her performance TANK.