Having worked as a dancer with a.o. Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, David Zambrano and Pierre Droulers, Thomas Hauert (1967), originally from Switzerland, founded his company ZOO in Brussels in 1998. Cows in Space, his first piece was immediately awarded at the Rencontres de Seine-Saint-Denis/Bagnolet. The company has since created more than 20 works, which have been performed all over the world. In addition to his work for ZOO, Thomas Hauert was also commissioned to create work for other companies including the Zurich Ballet, Toronto Dance Theatre, Candoco Dance Company and Ballet de Lorraine. Complementing his choreographic work, Thomas Hauert has developed an internationally recognized teaching method based on the movement research conducted with his company and regularly teaches workshops worldwide. In 2012-13, he was a guest professor for dance and performance at the Institute for Theater Studies of the Freie Universität Berlin. In 2012, Thomas Hauert was invited to participate in the “Motion Bank” project initiated by the Forsythe Company to stimulate research on choreographic practice and thought. In 2013 Hauert has been appointed artistic director of the new bachelor degree in contemporary dance at La Manufacture, Haute école des arts de la scène in Lausanne.

Works

1998: Cows in Space
1999: Pop-Up Songbook
2000: Jetzt
2001: Do You Believe in Gravity? Do You Trust the Pilot?
2002: Verosimile
2003: 5
2004: Modify
2006: Walking Oscar
2007: Puzzled (with Zefiro Torna)
2008: Accords
2010: You’ve Changed
2011: From B to B (with Àngels Margarit)
2011: Like Me More Like Me (with Scott Heron)
2012: Danse étoffée sur musique déguisée
2013: MONO
2015: (sweet) (bitter)
2015: La mesure du désordre (with La Bolsa)
2016: inaudible
2018: How to proceed
2020: If Only
2022: ZOO in progress (lecture)
2022: Efeu
2024: Troglodyt (Zaugast/Zaunkönig)

Collaborations

1997: Hobokendans (cie Pierre Droulers)
2000: Milky Way (P.A.R.T.S.)
2002: Hà mais (Alma Txina)
2004: Lobster Caravan (P.A.R.T.S.)
2005: Fold & Twine (Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance)
2007: 12/8 (P.A.R.T.S.)
2010: Il Giornale della necropoli (Zurich Ballet)
2010: Regarding the Area Between the Inseparable (P.A.R.T.S.)
2012: One Moving as Many Moving as One (FU Berlin, invited teacher “Valeska‐Gert”)
2013: Pond Skaters (Toronto Dance Theatre)
2014: Notturnino (Candoco Dance Company)
2017: Rhapsody on a theme of Accords (Ballet Junior Genève, choreography by Thomas Hauert, Liz Kinoshita, Mat Voorter)
2018: Flot (CCN Ballet de Lorraine)
2019: The occasional tendency of seven to coalesce (DOCH, University of Arts Stockholm)
2021: Re.visited – 3 Works on Mozart (Gärtner Platz Theater, Munich)

Films

2000: Space In, directed by Boris Van der Avoort
2010: La Valse, directed by Thierry De Mey
2023: Syntropia, directed by Andrea Pellerani

Awards

1998: Author Prize at Rencontres de Seine-Saint‐Denis for Cows in Space
2005: Modify Swiss Dance Production Award
2008: Nominated for the Prix de la critique (FWB) for Accords
2013: From B to B Swiss Dance Production Award
2013: Solothurn Dance Prize
2015: Prize SACD-SCAM Belgium, category « Chorégraphie »
2017: inaudible Swiss Dance Production Award