Lucia is a dance artist working in Zürich, Switzerland.

In Calling three characters circle each other with equal parts suspicion and intrigue. They have been doing this for some time. Attracted and repelled, their bodies move away and towards each other, sometimes with pleasure and at other times with disgust.

Concept and choreography Ofelia Jarl Ortega,
Co-choreography and performance The Field:
Lucia Gugerli, Pierre Piton, Declan Whitaker,
Music composition Xafya
Light design Christoffer Lloyd
Costumes Julian Zigerli
Production Matheus Vo-Ngoc
Dramaturgical advisor Tanzhaus Zürich Jessica Huber
Photo Nadja Voorham
Coproduction Tanzhaus Zürich
Special Thanks Jamuna Mirjam Zweifel, Marisa Godoy

PRESENTED AT Gessnerallee Zürich, Belluard Bollwerk Fribourg

Implosive Parts is a dance concert for seven performers. Throughout the piece we follow what we perceive and we perceive what moves us. Small impulses and subtle movements lead us towards and away from each other, witnessing a constant transformation of motion. The implosive movement choreography creates a field of tension where introversion almost finds its expression.

Konzept / Choreografie Juliette Uzor
Performer*innen, Co-Choreografie Johanne Closuit, Sorrel Jayen-Penck, Lucia Gugerli, Cheryl Ong, Pierre Piton, Li Tavor und Juliette Uzor
Dramaturgische Beratung Astrid Kaminski
Licht / Technik Theres Indermaur
Kostüm / Styling Sven Gex
Musik Li Tavor
Bühnenbild Li Tavor, Moritz Lehner
Produktion Patricia Bianchi
Photo Claude Barrault

PRESENTED AT Zürcher Theater Spektakel in co-production with Tanzhaus Zürich

In Waterworks, the performers evoke dreamlike fictions on a man­made island. The water is the stage for those scenarios – liberating, connec­tive, terrifying and full of possibilities. The site-specific piece is an investigation of the shore as a transition between nature and civilisation, as well as the interactions between liquids and bodies, natural elements and human movement.

Choreography Meg Stuart
from & with Kristof Van Boven, Isabela Fernandes Santana, Lucia Gugerli, Pierre Piton, Maria Scaroni, Declan Whitaker, Mirjam Jamuna Zweifel
Dramaturgy Bart Van den Eynde
Live music Mieko Suzuki
Szenography, Light design
Philippe Quesne, Elodie Dauguet
Cotume design Jean-Paul Lespagnard
Choreografieassistenz Ana Rocha, Davis Freeman
Production management Kathrin Veser
Production assistance Kizzy Garcia Vale
Costume support Selina Tholl, Klaire-Alice Cretoll, Lee Fischer
Intern Sofía Werder
Production, artistic support The Field Marisa Godoy, Romain Guion
Technical support David Baumgartner
Photo Michelle Ettlin

PRESENTED AT Kunsthalle Zürich (exhibition, 2020) and Tanzhaus Zürich (stage version, 2022)

Scalable Skeletal Escalator is an experimental live art work conceived by Isabel Lewis in the form of a holobiont, a multi-organismic assemblage, like the human body itself, shuddering and shaking into being. This mode of exhibition-making draws inspiration from evolutionary biologist Dr. Lynn Margulis’ emphasis on cooperative and symbiotic relationships between species as the driving force of evolution. The themes of the work are continuous with its form reflecting on potential human futures. Continuing in the vein of Isabel Lewis’ practice of questioning the disembodied thought systems of the West which deny the body of “livingness” in the deadlock of idealism/materialism, this work invites collaborators and visitors on a participatory epistemological quest to re(dis)cover the body by rehabilitating our human sensorium in order that we might enhance living rather than alienate ourselves from life.

Concept Isabel Lewis
Performers The Field (Lucia Gugerli, Pierre Piton, Declan Whitaker, Mirjam Jamuna Zweifel), Rafał Pierzyński
Custom-made speaker system Dirk Bell, Mo Stern
Garments design Yolanda Zobel, Marcelo Alcaide
Music LABOUR
Scents Sissel Tolaas
Art works Matthew Lutz-Kinoy (courtesy of Kamel Mennour / Fitzpatrick Gallery / Mendes Wood DM)
Scenography design Isabel Lewis, Dirk Bell
Photos Andrea Ebner, Annik Wetter

Co-production Kunsthalle Zürich, Callie's Berlin

Supported by City of Zurich Culture, BNP Paribas Swiss Foundation, Migros Culture Percentage, Ernst Göhner Foundation, Department of Culture of the Canton of Zurich, Fondation Nestlé pour l'Art, Landis & Gyr Foundation

PRESENTED AT Tanzhaus Zürich (2021) in the frame of Zürcher Theater Spektakel

Adopting a spontaneous diplomacy, it reveals a discipline modeled on behaviours from other species who know about reward because they have grown up with the dance between the common good and the lone impulse. The tyranny of the majority is measured up against singular desire as The Field sings, builds, collectively mythologizes and complicates what it means to be and act together. The content of this work bears striking similarity to the ensemble’s endeavour: an intuitive approach to collaborative action that hopes to render an advantageous group dynamic.

Choreography and direction Simone Aughterlony
Dance The Field- Maria Demandt, Lucia Gugerli, Pierre Piton, Declan Whitaker, Mirjam Jamuna Zweifel
Music and Sound Marcel Blatti, Jan Stehle
Adapted light design Joseph Wegmann
Replica of original stage Klara Mand, Tamara Baumann
Production management Simon Froehling
Mentoring The Field:Romain Guion
Original Cast and Creation: Simone Aughterlony, Kate McIntosh, Phil Hayes, Nicholas Lloyd, Thomas Wodianka
Original light design Christa Wenger
Original stage design Nadia Fistarol


Supported by: City of Zurich Culture, BNP Paribas Swiss Foundation, Migros Culture Percentage, Ernst Göhner Foundation, Department of Culture of the Canton of Zurich, Fondation Nestlé pour l'Art, Landis & Gyr Foundation,

Film: Maxi Schmitz, April 2021, Tanzhaus Zürich

PRESENTED IN THE FRAME OF About Us!

We Object is a collective extension of I Object, originally created for two performers. Developed together with residents of the Wollishofen neighborhood, We Object is a playground where people and things dance together and question their interrelationships. What emerges is chaotic but yet relaxing and gives rise to scenarios that range from everyday existence to science fiction.

DIRECTION Lucia Gugerli, Mirjam Jamuna Zweifel, Fanny Zihlmann
IN COLLABORATION WITH Romain Guion, Monica Gillette, Tanzhaus Zürich PERFORMANCE Leonie Ketz, Sandra Ivankovic, Maya Olah, Sol Mila Jarkovich, Helga Starcevic, Emma Bertuchoz, Tonja Richardet, Lucia Tavano, Samara Leite Walt, Simona Roth
PHOTO Eliane Zgraggen

SUPPORT Fondation BNP Paribas Suisse, Stadt Zürich Kultur, Fondation Nestlé pour l’Art, Migros Kulturprozent, Landis & Gyr Stiftung

PRESENTED IN THE FRAME OF TanzPlan Ost (2020) in St.Gallen, Zürich, Triesen, Schaffhausen, Ziegelhütte, Steckborn

Tongue in cheek and through a process of deceleration, To Those Who Wait questions the value of our time. Undulating through space, three figures lull the audience into a simultaneously lucid and dreamlike state, encouraging them to slow down and confront their need for speed. Flirting at the border of climax and pulling at the edges of refrain, To Those Who Wait strikes a blow to the heart of our hyper saturated world.

CHOREOGRAPHY Declan Whitaker
PERFORMANCE Simea Cavelti, Lucia Gugerli, Celina Liesegang
TECHNICAL DIRECTOR David Baumgartner
SPECIAL THANKS TO Riccardo Tarocco
PHOTO Flurin Bertschinger

PRESENTED IN THE FRAMEWORK OF TanzPlan Ost (2018).

"In Act and Thought - Six potentialities for TanzPlan Ost" is the fifth in a series of studies based on the in-depth research process for the piece "In Act and Thought", created for the Forsythe Company in 2015. As part of TanzPlan Ost, Fabrice Mazliah created a new edition in 2018 with four local dance makers and two dancers from the French-speaking part of Switzerland. The starting point is the investigation of the dancers' embodied knowledge: How can ideas that are first implicitly exchanged, silently and only among the artists, be verbalised and finally shared between the bodies and with the audience? The participants explore numerous strategies, combine movement with language, develop details in thoughtful descriptions, become poetic. An experience of complete incompleteness in surrender to the performance.

Concept Fabrice Mazliah
Performance Alexia Casciaro, Audrey Dionis, Lucia Gugerli, Mirjam Sutter, Sandra Klimek, Simea Cavelti

PRESENTED IN THE FRAME OF Tanzfestival Winterthur (Theater am Gleis), Show-Off (Tanzhaus Zürich).

The largest information resource we have, the internet, which has radically altered our modes of communication, has zero obligation to be factual. Anyone can say anything and present it as truthful, correct and unquestionable. This world wide web where anything goes has marked the advent of a posttruth world where the boundary between fact and fiction becomes more difficult to discern and the distinction between truth-telling and lies less clear. This new reality has permeated our lives, infiltrating the apparent with ambiguity and staining the effable with ambivalence.

CONCEPT Declan Whitaker
CHOREOGRAPHY & PERFORMANCE Maria Demandt, Lucia Gugerli, Pierre Piton, Declan Whitaker, Mirjam Jamuna Zweifel
MENTORING Lea Moro, Marc Streit
LIGHTING David Baumgartner
MUSIC Pierre Piton
SCENOGRAPHY & COSTUME Maria Demandt
PHOTO Leni Olafson
VIDEO Marc Nathmann | yourstage.live

Premiere Kammgarn West, Schaffhausen in co-production with Festival jups Schaffhausen, Phönix Theater Steckborn, Tanzhaus Zürich, Tojo Theater Reitschule Bern. For children from 9 years and adults

Mira lies in her bed at bedtime in her mother's flat. Her father's bed is in another flat. It is the evening before Mira's first meeting with Rico, and she experiences a night full of anticipation and apprehension, dreams and waking states, fragments of memories and leaps of thought. With dance, sounds and snatches of text, Kumpane asks about the hurts and losses that a breaking up brings, and at the same time explores the liberation that lies in them.

Dance Tina Beyeler, Lucia Gugerli, Angie Müller
Voice Madlen Arnold
Choreography Tina Beyeler
Music Frank Gerber
Text, dramaturgy Andri Beyeler Accompaniment Choreography Jürg Schneckenburger
Stage Angelica Paz Soldan
Costumes Annina Gull
Lighting Fiona Zolg
Flyer Philipp Albrecht
Production management Andri Beyeler, Tina Beyeler

With the support of the City of Schaffhausen, Canton of Schaffhausen, City of Zurich, Canton of Zurich, SIG charitable foundation, Werner Amsler Foundation