We, 11.2.2026

Th, 12.2.2026

Fr, 13.2.2026

09:30—13:00 Context Programme

Tanzhaus Bern – Studio

Salons d’artistes – Day 2

Anna Chiedza Spoerri | Cedric Gagneur | Soraya Leila Emery | Charlotte Mclean
Anna Chiedza Spoerri ©Laura Gauch
Cedric Gagneur ©
Soraya Leila Emery ©
Charlotte Mclean ©Brian Hartley
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Salons d'artistes – Day 2

with Anna Chiedza Spoerri | Cedric Gagneur | Soraya Leila Emery | Charlotte Mclean

In addition to the jury’s selected programme, further choreographers will offer insights into their work so far and future projects at the Salons d’artistes. The eight presentations may take the form of a discussion or a performance, and will all take place on Thursday 12.2. and Friday 13.2.2026. The programme is intended for national and international presenters and aims to inspire future cooperation.

Open to presenters only.
Registration required.

The following choreographers will present their work at the Salons d'artistes in 2026:

Anna Chiedza Spoerri

Anna Chiedza Spörri is a movement artist and creative activist based in Switzerland. She choreographs for theaters, artist and film, performs, teaches and creates between London and Switzerland. She creates her own movement by fusing different dance styles and experiments with spoken word. Her art is informed by her own lived experiences and the environment in which she moves as well as the stories she wishes to tell.

Anna has trained in different areas of the world such as École des Sables (Senegal), Peri Dance Studio (USA) and Motivating Excellence Program by Rhapsody James (USA) and in London. Through her work, she aims to create representation & access for BiPoC artists.

In 2022, her production «PERSPECTIVES» was a finalist of Premio - Nachwuchspreis and is since touring nationally and internationally. Currently, she is working on a new production "PERCEPTIONS", which will premiere in January 2026 at the Dampfzentrale in Bern, Switzerland.

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Cedric Gagneur

Cédric is a multidisciplinary dancer, choreographer, and teacher inspired by diverse dance styles. Beginning with breakdance, he later explored hip hop improvisation and contemporary dance, training with the Ballet Junior de Genève and La Manufacture in Lausanne. Founder of Cie Synergie, he creates works blending contemporary and hip hop dance, often enriched by live music and circus influences, touring in Switzerland and abroad.
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Soraya Leila Emery

Soraya Leila Emery is a Swiss-Moroccan choreographer and dancer based in Zurich. She graduated in contemporary dance from CFPArts Geneva in 2014 and from SEAD Salzburg in 2017, and obtained her Master's in choreography from ZHdK Zurich in June 2024. She works around the theme of female pleasure, seeking to define what pleasure is and to translate it into a choreographic score to redefine the narrative around female sexuality, bodily autonomy, and empowerment. She explores pleasure from a feminist perspective, and her research questions the preservation and transmission of cultural identity as well as the representation of the Arab female body. In 2023/2024, she was an associated artist with TanzPlan Ost and created the piece TURN ON. In 2025/2026, she is an associated artist at Tanzhaus Zurich where she will create the solo Coming Soon.

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Charlotte Mclean

Charlotte Mclean is an award-winning Scottish-born, Bern-based interdisciplinary artist. Her practice attempts anti-capitalist, cyclical ways of working, weaving traditional Highland Dance with intersectional feminism and community values. A London Contemporary Dance School graduate and 2025 Arts Foundation Dance Fellow, her work has been presented across Europe, including Tojo Theater Bern, The Place London and Black Box Teater Oslo. She is co-founder of movement grrl-band Die Berner Band, whose works have been performed at TANZhAUS Bern, Pete the Monkey Normandy, and Alte Münze Berlin, amongst others.

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Venue

Tanzhaus Bern – Studio
Dalmaziquai 69, 3005 Bern
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Tickets

13.2.2026, 09:30—13:00
Tanzhaus Bern – Studio

Sa, 14.2.2026