Since her graduation at the HF für zeitgenössischen und urbanen Bühnentanz 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 graduated from the Master Expanded Theater at HKB in Bern. She was working at Schauspielhaus Vienna, choreographing the Piece COMA and at the Münchner Volkstheater, working as a choreographer for the Piece Alles ist aus, aber wir haben ja uns, directed by Bonn Park. Her latest work about Swiss wrestling was invited for the Schweizer Theatertreffen 2022. She was part of the ATLAS Programme at ImpulsTanz Vienna in 2022. Johanna was nominated for best emerging artist in the Theater Heute Kritiker:innen Umfrage 2022 and the Stella Award for best performance for young adults in Austria 2023. She is holding the multiple year grant for her company for the years 2024-2026 by the Kanton Basel and works as a director for Zirkus Chnopf for the next production 2024 in Zürich. 

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 that she is passionate about. She likes ambiguities of all kinds and finds humor a good tool to speak about complicated and intertwined interactions between different players in the world.