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Stephan Jürgens holds a Ph.D. in Contemporary Choreography and New Media Technologies. His research interests concentrate on designing creative strategies for live performance involving interactive systems. He has been teaching movement research, interdisciplinary choreography and interactive system design in many different learning environments and institutions. Stephan collaborated on several international research projects, all of which investigated the use of recent technology in Contemporary Dance and Digital (Live) Performance. As a choreographer, Stephan has presented several works supported by the Portuguese Ministry of Culture. In 2010 Fernando Nabais, Fernando Galrito and Stephan Jürgens were awarded the Prémio Nacional de Multimedia 2010 da APMP for the digital performance .TXT.