Daniela Lehmann and Lucie Tuma

Foto: Daniela Lehmann

Daniela (*1983) is currently working as Artistic Director & Co-Managing Director of ZÜRICH TANZT, as a team member of artFAQ, and as a freelance dramaturg. She holds dual Swiss-Italian citizenship and lives in Zurich. Alongside her studies in Dance & Theater Studies, Musicology, and Art History in Zurich, Bern, and Utrecht, she began developing her practice in the performing arts as a festival organizer, programmer, dramaturg, and producer. Since then, she has worked on her own festival series GASTSPIELE Zurich (2011–2015), collaborated with institutions such as Schauspielhaus, Opernhaus, and Tanzhaus in Zurich as well as Schlachthaustheater and Dampfzentrale in Bern, and worked with various independent groups and artists, including Cie Sündenbock/Bouc émissaire, Barbara Weber, Sebastian Matthias, Lucie Tuma, Daniel Hellmann, and Reut Nahum.

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Lucie Tuma (1977) was born in Zurich and studied dance, choreography, and applied theatre studies in Prague, Montpellier, and Giessen. Her practice takes moving, often more-than-human bodies as a starting point and explores different temporalities and modes of attention. She works with embodied forms of knowledge, which she translates into performances, exhibitions, audio walks, one-to-one concerts, music albums, and books. From 2020 to 2026, she worked as a curator at Shedhalle Zurich. She has received numerous national and international scholarships, awards, and grants. Her works have been presented at venues including Gessnerallee Zurich, ADC Geneva, BONE Festival Bern, Art Safiental, Sophiensaele Berlin, MDT Stockholm, and ACC Gwanju (South Korea). Since 2012, she has been active in interdisciplinary research contexts and regularly teaches at institutions such as ZHdK Zurich, HKB Bern, HFK Bremen, HZT Berlin, Ruhr University Bochum, and DAI Art Praxis Arnhem.