
Dates
Career Highlights
LOOPING
contemporary dance company
CH-Zürich | 1995-1999
Founder, director and in-house choreographer
Fun Facts:
13 works (solo group), 11 dancers, 2 guest choreographers, 1 actor, 2 musicians/correpetitor/composer, 9 countries, 97 performances
Works (Jochen Heckmann):
Gentlemansong No. 1-3, Unfolding I-III, In our sleep, Little Fields, Unfolding Skins, Nightprayers (full-length), A break in the glass of sky, 4 Letters 2 Lovers (full-length), Sextet + 1, Every Which Way, Trans-Pass, Beyond Silent Shades, In the corner, not quite middle center
Performances a.o.:
Prague State Opera (CZE), Laterna Magica/Prague (CZE), Bolshoi Theatre Moscow (RUS), Nagoya Grand Theatre (JAP), Bern City Theatre (CH) - Swiss Dance Gala, Laban, Centre London (GB)


BALLETT-THEATER AUGSBURG
Staatstheater Augsburg | 1999-2007
Ballet director & chief choreographer
Fun Facts:
35 productions, 9 musicals, operas and operettas, 24 dancers, 6 guest dancers, 4 elevens, 1 dramaturge, 7 set designers, 5 costume designers, 9 guest choreographers, 17 guest trainers, 2 répétiteurs, 1 musician/correpetitor/composer
Works (selection, Jochens favourites):
Silent Games, Bed & Breakfast, Cinderella,
Happy and Station, La Pasión, Le Coeur Battant, Giselle, Cumulus, Swing Alive
THEATER IN KEMPTEN
2007-2011 & 2015
Artist in Residence / in-house choreographer / set and custome design
Fun Facts:
28 dancers, 5 set designers, 4 costume designers, 1 orchestra, 1 percussion trio, 2 lighting designers
Works:
Cumulus Currendus, Empfänger verzogen,
Die Wohnsinnigen, Match Point, TWO's a couple,
THREE's a crowd, Better Fail(l)ing


COLLEGE FOR CONTEMPORARY AND URBAN STAGE DANCE (HF ZUB)
& BA Urban and Contemporary Dance
CH-Zürich | 2012-2024
Artistic director, main lecturer
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