Austrian celebrity choreographer Raphael Miro Holzer splits his busy time between developing original work and cultivating the next generation of dance makers with his educational program entitled BLUEBOX. Miro Holzer is on the front edge of a new generation of interdisciplinary choreographers working across artist media and using all sorts of innovative devices, including artificial intelligence. He spoke with ICONS about his signature creative toolbox entitled BLUEPRINT, an ever-changing methodology for developing unique movement and forming global artistic collaborations.

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• WHO AND WHAT INSPIRES YOU AND HOW?
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• Yako O. - Seeing myself in mirror. I look at the person and think about how to move her. What movement will look interesting on her...
• Briana S. - There isn't a specific person that inspires me but I'm inspired by the human spirit and how it manifests into physical creation. Why? Because it forms our sense of reality, and how we express and connect.
• Noncy F. - The epic works of musical, literary and philosophical geniuses and of course- dreams! Dreams- the perfect poetic collision of fiction and nonfiction, personal and universal!

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