Jessica's artistic work glides back and forth between different performance worlds: while her early projects were primarily choreographic in nature, her more recent productions vary in terms of form and expression. What the choreographer's works have in common, however, is the search for a practice and aesthetic of sharing and exchange and the lived desire for collaboration. Accordingly, Jessica has made collaborations with other artists her primary working method. Formats such as walks, residencies and workshops are an essential part of her creative process.
Jessica trained in contemporary dance, choreography and dance & theatre studies at the Laban Centre/City University London. Together with Karin Arnold, she is a founding member of the performance collective mercimax.
She has been part of the Tanzhaus dramaturgy pool on a mandate basis since 2020. In 2025 she would like to merge her dramaturgical and artistic activities within the house more closely and also share insights and practices from her research series rituals of tenderness.
MovingTowardsZero
Jessica Huber, Constanza Pellicci
A coral for lost voices
To mark its 30th anniversary, Tanzhaus Zürich is hosting the MovingTowardsZero festival (26–28 June 2026): a utopian space where art, activism and community come together. A coral for lost voices is part of MovingTowardsZero.
We lose a lot - banal objects, deep feelings, loved ones, and collective properties, like glaciers or languages. On the one hand we experience loss as something distressing; on the other hand, the loss of fears and inhibitions can be invigorating. Some losses come to our attention immediately while others emerge slowly, quietly, humorously or sadly.
In this practice we would like to hold the space / or find a moment to let go by honoring some of these acknowledged and unacknowledged losses and expressing them into a common chant. The focus will be on the voice, but some soft movement exploration will be included. During this journey together we will be humming, melting, shape-shifting, surrendering and finding the courage to let our voices expand and resonate in our bodies and in between us. We will work with simple propositions to approach a permeable group composition.
Picture
Cecilia Rossa, a friend who lives in the Galápagos Islands, took this photo: it shows a coral that was thought to be extinct. We learnt the terminology “unacknowledged loss” from Barbara Raes.
Dates / Booking
16:45 — 17:45
- Pay as much as you want
Bühne 2
Tanzhaus Zürich
Wasserwerkstrasse 129
8037 Zürich
- Duration: 1h
- English, German
- Wheelchair accessible
- No prior knowledge is required.
- You can take part either standing or sitting.