Valerie Reding is a Zurich-based choreographer and interdisciplinary artist whose emotionally resonant and visually intriguing work dissolves boundaries between movement, poetry and the political, between the institutional and the underground. Their work explores how societal power structures configure identity and relationality - how they become inscribed in our bodies and shape how we relate to ourselves and each other. Drawing from personal and collective trauma, Reding is committed to creating spaces for marginalised narratives and crafts sensorially rich environments that invite audiences into spaces of generative togetherness. Their performances unfold as radical acts of vulnerability and resistance, where identities are fluid and the body becomes a site of protest and collective transformation.
Their practice is distinguished by its strong poetic visual language, emotional rawness and transdisciplinary layering, merging embodiment with image and text. Through this, Reding seeks to open up alternative modes of feeling, perceiving and being together - beyond the limiting systems society imposes.
They studied classical dance in Luxembourg, architecture at ETH Zürich and media arts at ZHdK (Zurich), the University of Applied Arts Vienna and in San Francisco. As an associated artist at Tanzhaus Zürich, they have developed a nationally and internationally recognized body of work, awarded the SSA Young Choreographers’ Prize and the City of Zurich Cultural Prize.