Juliette Uzor works as dancer and artist. Her practice is characterized by collaborative and interdisciplinary processes. She works with movement, with the positioning of bodies in space, their dynamic or ambivalent relationships to each other. With a focus on space and rhythm, she tries to allow different perspectives and temporalities to take place. For Juliette, this is an artistic means of reflecting on social structures.
After studying art and mediation in Bern and Zurich and a BA training in contemporary dance at La Manufacture, she has found herself in various projects. In recent years, she has collaborated with Elie Autin, Eleanor Bauer, Isabel Lewis, Natasza Gerlach, San Keller and Cosima Grand, among others. She has shown her own (mostly) performative works at Tanzhaus Zürich, Gessnerallee Zürich, Kunsthallen Zürich and St.Gallen, Kunstmuseum St.Gallen, Ménagerie de Verre Paris, Kunsttage Basel and various off-spaces. For the theatre, Juliette has choreographed two dance productions implosive parts (2023) and (ah ah ah) (2024).
In 2020, she received a cultural award from the city of Zurich. In summer 2021 Juliette is part of the Performance Art Festival in Freetown, Sierra Leone and is nominated for the Prix Mobilière. 2022 Juliette is awarded a work grant from the Canton of St.Gallen. 2023 she receives the MANOR Art Prize St.Gallen.
