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 collaborated with artists and companies including Club Guy & Roni, Tabea Martin, and Martin Zimmermann.
As an intersectional 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 — yet always remains open to rupture, instinct, and the unexpected.
Neil’s work has been presented at venues and festivals such as Théâtre Nuithonie–Equilibre (CH), ROXY Birsfelden (CH), Théâtre du Jura (CH), Tanzhaus Zürich (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. In 2025, the work continued touring to Theater am Gleis, Winterthur (CH), 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 objectified bodies in pop culture, searching for a more primal mode of presence, instinct, and collective embodiment. A co-production with Theater am Gleis Winterthur.
Meet the Performers of "THE IN BETWEEN" 🍭
Nadika Mohn is a Swiss–Sri Lankan freelance dancer based in St. Gallen, Switzerland. Alongside developing her own choreographic work, she performs primarily with Rigolo Tanztheater and Neil Höhener.
She is currently pursuing a Master of Arts in Dance Research at the Rambert School of Ballet and Contemporary Dance in London. Her academic research centers on the female body on stage, examining questions of subjectivity, agency, and objectification within performance practices.
Deeply engaged with the notion of in-betweenness — culturally, socially, and artistically — Nadika’s practice is shaped by her Swiss–Sri Lankan background and the experience of existing between contexts. This perspective informs both her choreographic work and her academic research, guiding her ongoing exploration of identity, authorship, and the representation of the female body on stage.
Meet the Performers of "THE IN BETWEEN" ❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥
Naomi Kats is an Israeli dancer, choreographer, teacher, and producer. She is a graduate of the Maslool Professional Dance Program and the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance.
Since 2019, she has worked internationally with choreographers and companies in Europe and Israel, including ilDance (SE), MAZE Dance Company (DE), SUB.LAB.PRO (HU), the Israeli Opera, Lotem Regev, Jenna Jalonen (FI), Ofra Idel (IL), and Neil Höhener (CH).
Since 2022, Naomi has been developing her work as an independent choreographer. Her creations have been presented at leading platforms and international festivals, including the Suzanne Dellal Center (1|2|3 Platform, Tel Aviv Dance Festival), MASH Dance Festival, Intima Dance Festival, The Bunch (IT), and Embodied Dissent (DE).
Her artistic research explores themes of holding and release, female identity, and transformation, grounded in embodied research and interdisciplinary collaboration.
Meet the Performers of "THE IN BETWEEN" 💌💌💌
Elena Praastrup Nielsen is a Danish freelance dancer and teacher based in Copenhagen. She graduated from Codarts University of the Arts in Rotterdam and has since collaborated with companies and choreographers across Europe, including Burkicom, Otradanza, Holstebro Dance Company, Mikkel Alexander Toetrup, Thomas Bentin, and Neil Höhener.
Her artistic practice is rooted in curiosity and physical exploration. She describes her work as a pursuit of the unknown:
“I find beauty in chasing the unknown. In dance, I found my way of releasing energy into pleasure. I simply love to experiment with the body and its possibilities when meeting myself through different methods, expressions, and concepts."
Through experimentation and vulnerability, Elena seeks to create spaces where uncertainty becomes a shared experience.
