Tanzhaus Zürich
Kommende Events (18)
Steps: The Fall / Risings
Steps: The Fall / Risings at Tanzhaus Zürich is a contemporary dance evening born from a bold 10-day blind collaboration (initiated by Akram Khan) exploring the encounter of two strangers through movement and choreography.
Steps: Beyond
Beyond is an energetic, poetic dance-circus performance for ages 6+, featuring six performers who blend dance, acrobatics and poledance on a dynamic ladder-built stage that explores limits and collective risk-taking.
AUSSTELLUNG Zürich zirkulär. Zukunft mit Kreislaufwirtschaft
Free exhibition "Zürich zirkulär" at Stadthaus Zürich (4 Nov 2025–4 Jul 2026) presents practical paths to a sustainable everyday life and the circular economy.
bonappétitsixsixsix
Performance artist and singer Alex Franz Zehetbauer becomes the Fool in bonappétitsixsixsix, a provocative, music-infused theatrical piece that skewers the world with diabolical charm, microphones and leier to confront and entertain the audience.
Open Dance - Deine Reise im Dunkeln (März)
Open Dance – Deine Reise im Dunkeln: a wordless, conscious free‑dance session in the dark at Tanzhaus Zürich designed for embodied self‑awareness and inner exploration.
MovingTowardsZero #3: Radikal Kreativ – Aktionskunst für den Wandel
MovingTowardsZero #3 at Tanzhaus Zürich brings artists, scientists and activists together on 19 March 2026 to explore radical creative action and artistic strategies for social and ecological change.
ALL RISE
A contemporary dance performance at Tanzhaus Zürich that interrogates court rituals, sovereignty and the violences of legal narratives, exploring how trauma resists coherent storytelling.
Happening Jam: Political Marketplace
Political Marketplace is an open, non-hierarchical happening jam at Tanzhaus Zürich combining movement, voice, sound and audience in a Dada-inspired experimental performance that blurs the line between performers and spectators.
Immersive Dance Concert: I'll meet you at the end
I’ll Meet You at the End — an immersive dance-concert at Tanzhaus Zürich blending visceral choreography, live music and storytelling, inspired by the 1518 Strasbourg dance mania and The Woman in Black.
Offenes Labor
Offenes Labor at Tanzhaus Zürich invites professional and non-professional dancers of all ages to a participatory lab with a shared warm-up, insights into collective methods and improvisational tasks solo, in pairs or groups.
Coming Soon
Coming Soon at Tanzhaus Zürich is a contemporary solo that reimagines Ingres’ La Grande Odalisque to subvert orientalist clichés and open alternative narratives around desire, passivity and emancipation through theatrical movement.
مشاركة (mushāraka)
Mushāraka is a performative physical-theatre piece by Aws Al-Zubaïdy exploring presence and absence, life and death amid the ongoing genocide in Palestine through movement, intimate/ironic actions and intrusions of news and advertising.
Rodeos
Rodeos is a choreographic sharing by Lozza-Hang exploring interdependence, vulnerability and intimacy through experimental movement, materials and time.
Trilogie In Praise of Vulnerability: HATE ME, TENDER
Teresa Vittucci’s complete trilogy In Praise of Vulnerability — HATE ME, TENDER, DOOM and SANE SATAN — is presented for the first time at Tanzhaus Zürich, featuring her solo HATE ME, TENDER that wittily and powerfully examines the figure of the Virgin Mary.
Trilogie In Praise of Vulnerability: DOOM
Teresa Vittucci presents the full 'In Praise of Vulnerability' trilogy at Tanzhaus Zürich, with DOOM exploring origins of the feminine through choreography and collaboration with composer/performer Colin Self.
Trilogie In Praise of Vulnerability: SANE SATAN
Teresa Vittucci presents SANE SATAN, the final part of her 'In Praise of Vulnerability' trilogy at Tanzhaus Zürich — a contemporary dance performance probing taboo, evil and who decides what counts as 'sin'.
MovingTowardsZero #2: Was bringt das überhaupt?
MovingTowardsZero #2 at Tanzhaus Zürich is a monthly art-meets-activism series bringing artists, scientists and activists together to explore creative approaches to social and ecological challenges.
Heavy Weight
Heavy Weight is a four-part choreographic research by Sheena McGrandles and Claire Vivianne Sobottke exploring weight, gravity, exhaustion and gendered strength through virtuosic failure and impossible actions.