Simon Mayer

Simon Mayer, performer, choreographer and musician, was born in Austria in 1984 and studies at the Vienna State Opera Ballet School, at the Performing Arts and Research Studios in Brussels and is a member of the Vienna State Opera Ballet. In the 2009 he founded his band Rising Halfmoon in which he worked as a singer, singer-songwriter and guitarist. Simon has worked with numerous artists including Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, Wim Vandekeybus and Zita Swoon. He is a choreographer of several solos, duets and group pieces that have been presented in the major European festivals (O Feather of lead, dancing with soundhobbyist/Zita Swoon, Monkeymind, SunBengSitting, Sons of Sissy). Simon was artist in residence at the Théâtre de L’L in Brussels and is artistic director of the Festival Spiel, hence the association of the same name founded with the brothers. Teaches vocal techniques and contemporary dance, folkloric and traditional (Impulstanz Vienna, Styrian autumn) He is a professor associated with the Vienna Conservatory, a private university.