ABOUT
Neil Höhener is a Swiss-Mexican choreographer and dancer based in Zurich.
Graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Contemporary Dance from the Zurich University of the Arts in 2019, Neil has since been working across Switzerland and internationally, collaborating with artists and companies including Club Guy & Roni, Tabea Martin, and Martin Zimmermann.
As an intersectional, queer, and boundary-shifting artist, Neil explores how bodies can transform, resist, and transcend fixed ideas of gender, identity, and authenticity. The work generates hybrid, colliding worlds where fluidity becomes a radical act — unfolding through a choreographic language that is virtuosic, sharply detailed, and finely sculpted, yet always open to rupture, instinct, and the unexpected.
Neil’s short works, including TAKE A SEAT and NO CONTROLES, have been presented at venues and festivals such as Théâtre Nuithonie–Equilibre (CH), ROXY Birsfelden (CH), Théâtre du Jura (CH), Quinzena de Dança de Almada (PT), DanzaTTack Festival Tenerife (ES), and Solo Dance Festival Ankara (TR).
In 2023/2024, Neil was an Associated Artist with TanzPlan Ost, where the full-length solo AN ACT was created and premiered at Tanzhaus Zürich. In 2025, the work continued touring to ACT Festival Bilbao (ES), the Festival Internacional de Danza Contemporánea in Mexico City (MX), Solo Contemporary Dance Ankara (TR), and E-Werk Freiburg (DE).
In 2026, Neil premieres the ensemble work THE IN BETWEEN — a piece examining the tension, charge, and vulnerability carried by sexualised bodies in pop culture, and searching for a more primal mode of presence, instinct, and collective embodiment.
A co-production with Theater am Gleis Winterthur, the work premieres on 20 March 2026, followed by performances on 21 March at Theater am Gleis, 28–29 March at Bachturnhalle Schaffhausen, and 9–11 April at Helferei Zürich.
Neils works have been shown at
Skopje Dance Fest 2019
Tanzhaus Zürich, 2019
Solo Tanz Theater Festival Stuttgart 2022
Théâtre Nuithonie, InciDanse Fribourg 2022
Roxy Birsfelden, 2023
Tanzfest Winterthur 2023
DanzaTTack Festival Tenerife 2023
Brücki 235 Festival Zürich 2023
Solo Contemporary Dance Festival Ankara 2023
Zürcher Theater Spektake 2023
Quinzena de Dança de Almada 2023
Oltener Tanztage 2023
Tanzfestival Winterthur 2023
Festival Entreloçados Portimão 2023
Tanzfest Winterthur 2024
Théâtre du Jura, 2024
Tanzhaus Zürich, 2024
Phönix Theater, Steckborn, 2024
Theater Bachturnhalle Schaffhausen, 2024
Theater am Gleis Winterthur, 2025
Tanzfest Winterthur 2025
ACT Festival Bilbao 2025
Festival Internacional de Danza Contemporánea Mexico City 2025
Paula Interfestival 2025
Solo Contemporary Dance Festival Ankara 2025
KleinKunstRallye Winterthur 2025
E-Werk Freiburg, 2025