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.