Johannes Wieland (artistic director) is the Artistic
Director/Choreographer of the resident dance company at
the State Theatre of Kassel, Germany. A native German and
former principal dancer with the Béjart Ballet Lausanne and
Berlin’s State Opera, he established his company, johannes
wieland, in New York in 2002. Since then, he has been
developing a singular body of work that has garnered
critical acclaim from The New York Times, Time Out New
York, The Village Voice, and many other national and
international publications, amongst them Dance Magazine,
which cited him as one of the “25 to Watch” in January
2003. His duet, shift, won Germany’s 2004 Kurt Jooss Prize
and he is also a winner of the 2004 Hubbard Street 2
National Choreographic Competition.
In addition to leading his own companies, Wieland was
Associate Artistic Director of PARADIGM (New York), and is
a guest choreographer and teacher at companies and
schools around the world. He holds a BFA from the
University of Amsterdam, and an MFA from NYU/Tisch
School of the Arts.