Stephanie Schroedter has been working at the interface of music, dance and theatre/performance since completing her doctorate in music and dance studies at the University of Salzburg (supported by the FWF Vienna and awarded with the “Dance Studies Prize North Rhine-Westphalia”). She has taught as research assistant, visiting and substitute professor for musicology, dance studies, as well as theater/performance and media studies at the Universities of Bayreuth, Berlin (Freie Universität and University of the Arts), Heidelberg, Bern/CH (among others). Additionally she was involved in the conception and realization of several research projects supported by the German Research Foundation (DFG) and the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF). In 2015, she habilitated at the FU Berlin (venia legendi/docendi: Music and Dance Studies) and was appointed to a professorship for the development of transdisciplinary artistic theories at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna in 2021. She is particularly interested in the exploration of a musically/soundwise moving knowledge at the interface of artistic practice and aesthetic reflection.
The most recent anthology she edited, Music and Motion. Interweaving Artistic Practice and Theory in Dance and beyond (Vienna and Bielefeld: mdw-press in cooperation with transcript 2025) with contributions from 41 international authors from the fields of music/dance/theatre and media studies as well as practice-oriented subjects such as artistic research, composition/improvisation, sound studies, théâtre musical/performance as well as music and movement education/rhythmics is available via https://www.mdw.ac.at/mdwpress/books-music-motion/ (open access without any restrictions).
