The company features an international ensemble of dancers from different countries such as Belgium, Brazil, Denmark, France, Spain and Taiwan and Ukraine. With different backgrounds and professional experiences, the group is very eclectic. Some dancers, for example, have been working with Iván Pérez for years, while others, however, have just arrived. Some joined the DTH-Team after passing by several established dance ensembles around Europe, and others were independent dancers before that. Regardless of the case, the DTH advocates for an inclusive environment and encourages dialogue and exchange between artists.

On the ensemble’s history
Under the artistic direction of Iván Pérez, Dance Theatre Heidelberg (DTH) is the established dance ensemble at Theater und Orchester Heidelberg. Since its inception in September 2018, the newly named company has successfully gained audiences’ and critics’ trust through its high artistic quality productions and contemporary dance aesthetic. Its repertoire includes various creations by Iván Pérez – often in collaboration with the Philharmonic Orchestra Heidelberg – and commissioned works created by guest choreographers. DTH is also co-responsible for the Tanzbiennale Heidelberg. The international dance festival, which spans nine days was established in 2014 thanks to TANZAllianz – a cooperation between Theater und Orchester Heidelberg and UnterwegsTheater.

Iván Pérez
Artistic Director Dance Theatre Heidelberg
Since September 2018, the Spanish choreographer Iván Pérez is the artistic director of Dance Theatre Heidelberg (DTH) at Theater und Orchester Heidelberg. He is also curator of the Tanzbiennale Heidelberg and the Choreographic Center Heidelberg. In early 2022, he became a member of the TanzSzene BW board. Pérez is a former member of the Netherlands Dance Theater, where he had his professional choreographic debut in 2011 with »Flesh«. Since then, he has made new works for companies such as the Paris Opera Ballet, Balletboyz, Ballet Moscow, Compañía Nacional de Danza and Dance Forum Taipei amongst others. Within Dance Theatre Heidelberg, Pérez creates big scale works, promotes new choreographic voices and develops communities around dance.

»Collective behaviour is a recurring theme through most of my work. I´m particularly interested in the collective responses among my dancers and the dynamics and tensions on stage that the bodies could create.«

Iván Pérez

Further information on the 2019/2020 season

Rahmenprogramm | Übersicht
EXHAUSTING SPACE
DIMENSION
MOMENTUM
FREIRAUM II

Further information on the 2018/2019 season

THE INHABITANTS
IMPRESSION
BECOMING
FREIRAUM I