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Soraya Leila Emery, Neil Höhener

Im Rahmen von TanzPlan Ost: TPO Tour 2024

Neil Höhener: An Act
In the solo performance An Act, inspired by his autobiographical experiences and physicality, Neil Höhener explores his own identity, body, and their fluidity. Engaging in a dialogue with various aspects of his personality, Neil seeks constant transformation. In a detached, at times surreal and dreamlike stage setting, he delves into the feeling of obsession, revealing vulnerability and playfulness. His actions lead to a performative deconstruction of fixed categories. An Act is a dance-driven search for the indefinable.

Soraya Leila Emery: TURN ON
In TURN ON, Soraya Leila Emery examines female pleasure from a feminist perspective. By blending dance and grappling techniques, narratives surrounding female sexuality, bodily autonomy, and empowerment are reimagined. The three performers move through the space both individually and together, creating captivating tableaux vivants with their movements and gazes: intertwined and sliding over each other, their bodies vibrate, resist, and soften in an obsessive search for endless repetitions that lead to exhaustion and vibrating silence. This is a play of constantly shifting, ambivalent power dynamics. An act of reclaiming their bodies. A struggle for their right to pleasure.

TanzPlan Ost Tour 2024
Over the course of a year, the two TPO Associated Artists, Soraya Leila Emery and Neil Höhener, each created a contemporary dance piece. Through an extensive workshop and outreach program that accompanied the process, they periodically opened their creative processes to the regional community. The two completed pieces will now be presented as a double bill on three stages in Eastern Switzerland as part of the TPO Tour.

For over 10 years, TanzPlan Ost has been promoting local contemporary dance and fostering cross-regional exchange. The TPO Tour marks the conclusion of the second three-part cycle, consisting of the TPO ChoreoLab, TPO Associated Artist Program, and TPO Tour.
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An Act
Konzept, Künstlerische Leitung, Choreografie, Tanz Neil Höhener
Dramaturgie Charlotte Mathiessen
Musikkomposition Luca Magni
Szenografie, Licht Thomas Giger
Kostüm Ben Voorhaar und Sabrina Zyla / Karisma Costume
Film, Schnitt Linus Von Stumberg Kamera Hannes Cullum
Mentoring / Outside Eye Choreografie Caroline Finn
Fotos Ronja Burkhard
Styling Carolina Misztela
Grafik Louis Hua

Produktionsleitung TanzPlan Ost Romeo Oliveras, Mona De Weerdt
Dramaturgische Begleitung TanzPlan Ost Mona De Weerdt, Simone Truong
Produktion Neil Höhener Creations
Koproduktion TanzPlan Ost

Residenz- und Kooperationspartner POOL - Raum für Kultur St. Gallen, Dogo Residenz, Tanzhaus Zürich, riverbero Poschiavo, Dansomètre Vevey, MoE Museum of Emptiness, Tanzfest St. Gallen, Theaterhaus Thurgau, Tanzwerkstatt Arbon, Roxy Birsfelden, Mobile – das Freiluftparlament

Unterstützung Kulturstiftung des Kantons Thurgau, Stadt Zürich Kultur, Ernst Göhner Stiftung, Stanley Thomas Johnson Stiftung, Annemarie Schindler Stiftung, Albert Huber Stiftung, Dr. Robert und Marlies Holzach Stiftung, Migros Kulturprozent Zürich, Dr. Heinrich Mezger Stiftung, Thurgauische Kulturstiftung Ottoberg


TURN ON
Konzept, Künstlerische Leitung, Choreografie Soraya Leila Emery
Co-Choreografie, Tanz Eman Hussein, Donya Speaks, Léna Sophia Bagutti Khennouff
Dramaturgie Lyn Bentschik
Sounddesign Sinan Moses
Kostüm- und Bühnenbild Moni Wespi
Lichtdesign Patrik Rimann
Mentoring Ulduz Ahmadzadeh
Fotos Michelle Ettlin

Produktionsleitung TanzPlan Ost Romeo Oliveras, Mona De Weerdt
Dramaturgische Begleitung TanzPlan Ost Mona De Weerdt, Simone Truong
Produktion hot stuff
Koproduktion TanzPlan Ost

Unterstützung Stadt Zürich Kultur, Fachstelle Kultur Kanton Zürich, Ernst Göhner Stiftung, Landis & Gyr Stiftung, E. Fritz und Yvonne Hoffmann-Stiftung, Migros Kulturprozent, Schweizerische Interpretenstiftung SIS

Residenzorte / Partnerinstitutionen Tanzhaus Zürich, Phönix Theater (Steckborn), Bachturnhalle (Schaffhausen), Fabriktheater Rote Fabrik Zürich, POOL - Raum für Kultur St. Gallen, PAULA Festival St. Gallen, Dampfzentrale Bern, Dogo Residenz / Rathaus für Kultur Lichtensteig, Tanzfest St. Gallen, riverbero Poschiavo, Rösslisaal Trogen, Mobile – das Freiluftparlament, School van Gaasbeek Brüssel

TanzPlan Ost
Koordinierte Tanzförderung der Ostschweizer Kantone, des Fürstentums Liechtenstein und der ig tanz ost.

Projektleitung Romeo Oliveras
Künstlerische Leitung Mona De Weerdt
Dramaturgische Begleitung Simone Truong
Produktionsassistenz Pauline Della Bianca (artFAQ Rundlauf)
Kommunikation Nina Rüetschi

Unterstützt durch Arnold Billwiller Stiftung, Bertold-Suhner-Stiftung, Dr. Adolf Streuli-Stiftung, Dr. Fred Styger Stiftung, Dr. Heinrich Mezger-Stiftung, E. Fritz und Yvonne Hoffmann-Stiftung, Ernst Göhner Stiftung, Ev Haeny-Stiftung, Guido Feger Stiftung, H.E.M. Stiftung, Hedy Hasler Fonds, Huber+Suhner Stiftung, Jakob und Emma Windler-Stiftung, Jubiläumsstiftung der Schweizerischen Mobiliar Genossenschaft, Kulturfonds der Société Suisse des Auteurs (SSA), Kulturpool Untersee - Rhein, Landis & Gyr Stiftung, Lienhard Stiftung, Metrohm Stiftung, Migros- Kulturprozent, Ortsbürgergemeinde St. Gallen, Stadt St. Gallen, Steinegg Stiftung, Stiftung Corymbo, TKB Jubiläumsstiftung

Partner:innen Tanzhaus Zürich, Phönix Theater, Bachturnhalle, Haus Gutenberg, Rathaus für Kultur, Dogo Residenz, POOL – Raum für Kultur, riverbero, Kunst im Depot, Rösslisaal

Soraya Leila Emery

Soraya Leila Emery is a Swiss-Moroccan choreographer based in Zurich. In 2023/24, as a TanzPlan Ost Associated Artist, she created her group piece TURN ON. In her current work, Soraya Leila explores themes of desire through an intersectional, decolonial, and feminist lens, providing a platform for MENA* dancers. Her earlier works questioned the preservation and transmission of cultural identity and the representation of the female Arab body. She earned her Master's degree in Choreography from ZHdK Zurich in 2024, graduated as a contemporary dancer from SEAD in 2017, and from CFPArts Geneva in 2014.

*MENA = Middle East North Africa

Neil Höhener

Neil Höhener is a dancer and choreographer from Arbon (Thurgau). In 2019, he completed a Bachelor of Arts in Contemporary Dance at the Zurich University of the Arts. As a dancer, he has worked with companies such as Cie Marchepied, Cie La Ronde, and Club Guy and Roni's Poetic Disasters Club. He presented his own short pieces, such as the solo White Room, at the Skopje Dance Fest in 2019 and at the opening of Tanzhaus Zürich. His solo Take a Seat was showcased at the International Solo Dance Theater Festival in Stuttgart, the Solo Dance Festival in Ankara, and Quinzenade de Dança de Almada, and it received the Newcomer Award at the Oltener Tanztage in 2024. His duo No Controles, developed together with Moira Lafosse, was presented at Mixed Pickles #12 in Roxy Birsfelden and was also seen at the Winterthur Dance Festival and Théâtre du Jura. In 2023/24, he is an Associated Artist of TanzPlan Ost and is developing his full-length solo An Act as part of this collaboration.

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