Artists in Residence

Upon graduating, she created Femme en appartement, a performance which explores themes of overwhelm and loneliness. She presented this work in various site-specific venues and at the Théâtre du Loup in Geneva in 2019, during the C’est déjà demain festival. This was followed by J’ai vu, ventre (….), at the Centre culturel des grottes in Geneva, a short, poetic piece about her abortion. In 2021, she became an associated artist at L’Abri de Genève and began research into transformation, the construction of her image and the writing of singing poems. There she presented Exhibition, a participatory performance in which the audience interacts with her and alters her appearance. With intimacy at the heart of her work, she explores the act of self-revelation as an art form and use personal trauma as a driving force for creativity. Laura has also set up her company with Guilhem Causse in Geneva, Cie PNJ, with which they presented a new version of her performance : Exhibition.exe at the Mapping Festival in May 2025, which they’re currently developing a V3. In 2027, They’ll present a new creation : Hell., a play based on her personal data when she was a geek and a teenager. With this two projects, she’s researching how stage and internet can dialog as places of representation and projection, expression and transformation.

Her practice navigates between performance, video, music, curation, installation and is based on self-representation, on the desire to destroy pre-established codes and explore social, gender and contextual identities in a specific researched field of life screams and action. Rebecca Solari is a member of the electro-punk duo Crème solaire (CH) and the music/performance project fulmine (NL).

She collaborates with numerous artists in France and internationally (Tunisia, Mali, Russia, Congo, Palestine). In 2018, she co-founded Groupe Crisis in Marseille, where she develops her creations. At the end of 2023, she began a research cycle in the anthropology of ritual at the EHESS in Paris (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales).

Passionate about embodiment, possession and metamorphosis, she sees dance as a vital and social necessity, stage work as one of the manifestations of life among us, and artistic experience as a space for transformation and empowerment.

She collaborates closely with workers — often spending extended time with them in their workshops — to observe their physical relationship to tools, materials, and space. This embodied research forms the foundation of a movement language that transforms labour gestures into contemporary performance.

Her works have been presented internationally at Zürcher Theaterspektakel, Festival de Danse Cannes–Côte d’Azur, Festival Theaterformen, and Cinédanse.
She is a recipient of the PREMIO Nachwuchspreis 2026 and currently an Accomplice Artist at Tanzhaus Zürich (2026–2027), where she is developing Undeclared Work, the third chapter of her ongoing series Labour Work – Between Work and Dance.

Eman Hussein’s movement practice is rooted in her working-class background and in long-term observation of everyday life. She develops her choreographic language through embodied research — by working alongside craftsmen and laborers and learning their physical vocabulary from within their environments.

From this process, she creates a “movement alphabet” based on repetition, rhythm, asymmetry, and the physical impact of labor on the body. She is interested in how emotions such as exhaustion, pride, longing, and joy are embedded in functional gestures, and how these can be transformed into expressive movement.

Her work explores how breath and repetition shift the quality of labor movements — turning them into trance-like states, where the body moves between function and abstraction.

By bringing these gestures into dialogue with contemporary dance, she creates a physical language that is both raw and poetic, revealing the invisible layers of labor through the body.

Jéssica Teixeira began in dance and theater as a child, and at the age of 16 she began working professionally in the cultural field. Now, at 33, she works as an actress, producer, director, playwright .In 2017, she defended her Master’s thesis, based on research titled “A Body in a State of Demolition”, at the Graduate Program in Arts at the Federal University of Ceará. Prior to that, she graduated in the first class of the Theater Teaching Degree at the same university in 2013. Her career includes more than 30 stage productions as an actress, as well as films, performances, and video performances.Currently, she uses her “strange body” as the raw material of her artistic research, which resulted in two solo performances: E.L.A - A.L.S.O (2019) and MONGA (2024). MONGA received the 35th Shell Award for Best Direction and the ZKB Förderpreis 2025, presented at Theater Spektakel in Zurich. She also acted in the short films Noz Pecã (2024), for which she won Best Actress at the 52nd Gramado Film Festival (Gaúcha Showcase), “Assuming the Earth is Flat, I Am All Curve and Deviation” (2023), Bittersweet Power (2022), Curva Sinuosa (2021), the feature film Acsexybilidade (2023), and the series The Others (2023), on Globoplay.