Johanna Heusser

Johanna completed her dance studies at the HF for Contemporary and Urban Dance in Zurich in 2016 and graduated with a Master’s degree in Expanded Theatre from HKB in Bern in 2022. Since 2016, she has also been creating her own works, which have been shown at various festivals and theatres in Switzerland, Europe, India, Turkey and Uganda, such as ROXY Birfselden, Schlachthaus Theater Bern, Dschungel Wien, Theater im Pumpenhaus Münster, Gostner Hoftheater Nürnberg, FIT Festival Lugano, Zürcher Theaterspektakel, Kampala National Theatre, Khuli Kirkee Delhi, Khoj Delhi, TIFA Pune, Shoonya Bangalore or Istanbul Fringe Festival.

Johanna is the winner of Atelier Mondial 2018 and the winner of the Double Tanz 2020 by Migros Kultur Prozent. She is a finalist of PREMIO Switzerland 2021 and worked at Schauspielhaus Wien, where she choreographed the play COMA with Marcel Schwald and at Münchner Volkstheater, where she worked as a choreographer for the play Alles ist aus, aber wir haben ja uns, directed by Bonn Park. Her work about Swiss wrestling was invited to the Swiss Theatertreffen 2022.

She was part of the ATLAS programme at ImpulsTanz Wien 2022. Johanna was nominated as best emerging artist for the Theater Heute Kritiker:innen Umfrage 2022 and the Stella Award for the best performance for young adults in Austria 2023. She is the holder of multi-year funding for her company for the years 2024-2026 from the Canton of Basel.