Erika Zueneli
Disciplines
Company News : upcoming creation in progress The Margherite - creation 2026. Public presentation of research laboratory at the Doms theater on February 14, 2025 in partnership with Les Hivernales/ CDCN of Avignon.
28 and 29.03.2025 SARABAND > Legs Festival – Charleroi dance
11 and 12.04.2025 LANDFALL, Charleroi Dance – Les Écuries, Charleroi (BE) – 20:00
19.04.2025 LANDFALL, Le Delta – Namur (BE) – 20:00
Choreographer and dancer born in Italy, in Florence, where she began her dance studies (classical, Graham technique), Erika Zueneli trained in New York at the Alwin Nikolais and Merce Cunningham schools in 1991. Simultaneously, in Italy, she participated in the creations of the Imago company with Simona Bucci (contemporary dance), those of Andrea Francalanci (Renaissance dances), as well as various operas staged by Luca Ronconi, Derek Jarman, Luciano Bussotti or Lindsay Kemp.
Between France and Belgium she participated in the opening ceremony of the Albertville Olympic Games by Philippe Découflé in 1992 she then joined the Santiago Sempere Company until 2004 which also entrusted her with the realization of educational projects. She was also an interpreter for the Josef Nadj Company, Silenda Company, Les Colporteurs circus, Kataline Patkaï… In Belgium, she met the Mossoux-Bonté company in 1995 with whom she continued a long collaboration on more than a dozen creations including the last Migration.
It is between Italy, New York, Belgium and France that Erika Zueneli develops her dance, first as an interpreter, then as a choreographer. In 1998, she also began a personal research leading her to the solos Frêles Espérances and Ashes and created, in 2000 with Olivier Renouf, the Association l’ Yeuse, in Paris. Very active on the Belgian scene, she decided to found her structure in Brussels in 2008 renamed Tant’amati in 2013, from the name of the duo that was created that year.
With about fifteen pieces to her credit, she has explored a wide range of forms and collaborations, from solo and duo to group pieces with professional dancers, but also amateurs. Interpreter or only choreographer, she also likes to leave dedicated scenes to inhabit urban spaces or more bucolic settings, picking up the spectator who walks.
Her work has been presented in several European countries, including Belgium, France and Italy, as well as Switzerland, Germany, Austria, Spain, Slovenia, Croatia, Macedonia and Czechoslovakia....
Recent Collaborations :
In 2018 she collaborated with Agnès Bourgeois (actress, director) in the duo 64. A year later, in September 2019, she performed a conference, Dancing her skins, with Marina Nordera on the occasion of the 40th International Archaeology and History Meetings of Nice Côte d’Azur, The Art of appearing at the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Mamac.
She regularly collaborates on all the creations of Olivier Renouf.
