Anna Maria Nowak was born in Poland, where she studied Scandinavian Studies at the University of Gdansk.  She received her dance education at Anton Bruckner Universität in Linz, Austria. Since 2005 she is working as a freelance dancer, choreographer and teacher in Vienna.  In 2006 she joined Liquid Loft/Chris Haring for the Posing Project and since than has been working with the company in various stage and film productions. She also worked with i.a.Elio Gervasi, Julia Mach and Radek Hewelt.

Since 2010 she is also a member and cofounder of an Austria based group - The Loose Collective. Her own solo works include "mindblankless" and "fall and crash into a thousand pieces" - both premiered at the festival OdeonTanz. In 2009 she received the DanceWeb scholarship. Anna Maria Nowak has been  guest teaching for i.a. Anton Bruckner Universität in Linz, Tanzquartier Wien, ImPulsTanz/Biblioteca Do Corpo and D.ID dance identity.

As part of the Nottdance 2013 festival Robert was invited to take part in Susi & Gabi’s Salon. The Salon is a dialogue between host artists Gabriele Reuter and Susanne Martin, a group of invited guests and the audience. The evenings revolve around the phenomenon of Improvisation as performance, choreography and research. Inspired by this improvisational approach Robert (who was working in Austria at the time) asked Austrian based dance artist Anna Novak to record for him a vocal score that he wouldn’t hear until the day of the performance and that he would respond to for the audience. The recording (which you can hear above) was posted to England and opened in front of the Audience at the start of the performance, before being relayed to Robert, spoken aloud by a another guest artist of the Salon that evening Pete Shenton (New Art Club).