Since her graduation at the HF Bühnentanz (contemporary and urban stage dance diploma) in Zürich, Basel based dancer Johanna Heusser (1994) is working with different companies and choreographers around Switzerland. She is teaching dance and yoga internatonally on a regular basis. Since 2016 she is creating her own works, which are shown at theaters and dance festivals around Europe.

Johanna is winner of Atelier Mondial in 2018 and the winner of Double Tanz 2020 by Migros Kultur Prozent. With her first solo piece How to do a downward facing dog? she was chosen in the pre-selection of the Swiss dance Days 2021 and selected to be in one of eight Salon d Artistes. She is Semi Finalist of PREMIO Switzerland 2021 and studying in the Master Expandet Theatre at HKB in Bern. For the season 2021 she is working at the Schauspielhaus Wien, choreographing the Piece COMA in collaboration with Marcel Schwald. Her creation Dr Churz, dr Schlungg und dr Böös (at FIT 2022) entered the selection of the Swiss Theater Encounter 2022 as one of the most interesting contemporary productions.

Johanna sees her work to be at the intersection of dance and theatre. Her interest lays in cultural practices that focus on the body and its cultural connotation. She sees these practices in a sociopolitical way and finds strategies in her work to make them visible. The constant questioning of her own position as a white dancer and how the neoliberal system she is living in has an impact on her work and body is part of her work.

< photo Frederica Summereder

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Dr Churz, dr Schlungg und dr Böös
2022 Edition
28.09 – 11.10