Swiss dance scene at Internationale Tanzmesse NRW 2024 

Anna Anderegg is a performance artist specialising in the interaction between movement and space. Her work, which combines performing and visual art, makes contemporary body states visible and challenges the social, urban and digital architectures of our communal life.

Clara Delorme is interested in colours and humans. She likes imagining monochrome spaces in which the characters show their uniqueness without necessarily being original. She has recently created five new pieces and is currently conducting research at the Istituto Svizzero in Rome.  

CocoonDance, under the direction of Rafaële Giovanola, based at the Théâtre du Crochetan Monthey (Switzerland) and the Theater im Ballsaal Bonn (Germany), has created around 50 productions and toured five continents since 2000, including invitations to showcase at festivals like the TANZPLATTFORM DEUTSCHLAND, the STEPS festival or the RENCONTRES CHORÉGRAPHIQUES INTERNATIONALES. The company’s collaborative work is characterised by large-scale body research on the ‘unthought-of’ body and the glossary of work that grew out of it, including MoveApp as its digital spinoff. 

The collectif Foulles has been around since 2018. There were affinities, friendships, jokes, a meeting. The desire to dance together, to share music, images and texts, to circulate a bunch of things, with a bunch of people. 

Since founding Compagnie 7273 in 2003, Laurence Yadi and Nicolas Cantillon have developed a style of dance that invites the body to perpetually unfold itself. Called ‘Multi styles FuittFuitt’ by the choreographers, this technique allows a continuous weaving of movements by the dancers in an undulating, spiralling and hypnotic manner. 

Compagnie Linga, under the artistic direction of Katarzyna Gdaniec and Marco Cantalupo, is based at the Octogone Theatre in Pully, Switzerland. Having staged more than 40 choreographic works, Linga is an artistic entity of international acclaim. Company Linga’s latest productions, all with live music, are Flow (Swiss Dance Award 2019), Cosmos and Semâ. 

Since founding her dance company in 2002, Nicole Seiler has evolved into a prominent figure of the Swiss contemporary dance scene with over 30 realised projects in her repertoire.  

She transforms research work into unique and imaginative productions in a multitude of formats: scenic choreographic spectacles, videos and films, as well as performances and choreographic installations that are frequently site-specific and give audiences an active role to play. 

The focus of Company MAFALDA‘s multifaceted work currently lies on dance pieces for children, which have been very well received internationally. The productions are accompanied by workshops. MAFALDA presents unique and multi-layered worlds – at times narrative, at times abstract – with sophisticated, often highly virtuosic dance elements and a wide variety of theatrical devices. 

Delgado Fuchs is a Swiss collective formed by artists Marco Delgado and Nadine Fuchs. Breaking away from the usual categorisations, their creations, at the crossroads of dance and visual arts, play on the register of ambivalence, with a strong taste for transformation and transgression. 

Emma Saba is a dancer, choreographer and dramaturg. Born and raised in Italy, she studied classical music at the Conservatorio G.B. Martini in Bologna before gaining a degree at La Manufacture – Haute Ecole des arts de la scène in Lausanne in 2021. ‘La fine di tutte le cose / l’inizio di tutte le altre’ is her first production as a choreographer.  

Jeremy Nedd is a choreographer and performer born in Brooklyn, New York, and currently living in Basel. His work is inspired mainly by black communities and their links to one another. He researches topics that reflect these interconnections as well as the diaspora’s multifaceted beauty that manifests itself in the communities’ ballroom dances. 

Anna Ladeira from the independent production office Le Voisin presents three companies from Switzerland that are unable to attend the tanzmesse in person: Jolie Ngemi, Lorena Dozio and Riva & Repele. 

Marie-Caroline Hominal lives and works in Geneva.  The range of her artistic practice includes choreography, performance, video, drawing and music.  Her performances are created for theatres, museums and non-conventional spaces, and have been staged throughout Europe, North and South America and Asia. Her next creation is planned for March 2025. 

Nunzio Impellizzeri Dance Company, celebrating its 10th anniversary, has garnered acclaim for its outstanding and versatile works in Switzerland and internationally since 2014. Led by Nunzio Impellizzeri, whose background in visual arts profoundly influences his choreographic language, the company is renowned for its innovative use of space, dynamic movement, and strong physicality, pushing artistic boundaries and promoting inclusivity through dance. The company is currently touring with performances such as CORPO BAROCCO, SCH.NEE, and PINK CARPET. 

Salut, I’m Pierre Piton. I’ve come to tanzmesse to discover various ways of portraying dance and to perform ‘Open/Closed’. Additionally, I am interested in learning how to tour in a sustainable and meaningful manner.