Adriana Carlota Berwert

Adriana Carlota Berwert is a professional dancer, choreographer, light and stage designer working as a freelancer based in Zürich. In her own works she brings together body and space to find new ways of expanding bodies and moving spaces. She is largely interested in finding new collaborative ways of working and finds herself working in different capacities.

As a dancer:
Adriana graduated from Rambert School of Ballet and Contemporary Dance in 2017 where she performed works by Darren Ellis and Mark Baldwin as well as creating her own first choreographies. She worked with Thomas Page Dances, followed by joining Ballet Junior de Genève where she performed in works by Olivier Dubois, Sharon Eyal, Hofesh Shechter and Emanuel Gat. She has since turned towards the freelance scene and continues to perform in various settings including in her own work. She also teaches dance at Ballettstadt Luzern. With Apprivoise-moi she won the Tankstelle bühne 2022 price and developed a lyrical-poetical piece in which she worked as a choreographer, dancer and light designer.

As a Scenographer / Light Designer / Choreographer:
Adriana is finishing her BA in scenography at ZhdK in 2025 and works in between dance, theatre and music. In 2022 she started working alongside Michael Eigenmann as a light designer and technician and works in Theaterspektakel as a light technician since 2023.
In April 2024 she developed her second light object for Remembering the Future by Ivana Balabanova. In January 2024 she worked as a performer and light designer for the piece Casa in the Theater der Künste Zürich and she also was artistic director alongside Laura Spichtig, choreoprapher, light designer and performer in Verklärte Nacht. In 2023 Alba, a piece created with Louise Mayer-Jacquelin, was nominated for the Jungsegler 2023 award, in which she worked with the actresses as a choreographer as well as developing the scenography and light design. Since 2021 she coached and collaborated on different pieces with Kollektiv Dionysos. Adriana’s works bring together different art forms in and around the stage. She thinks of scenography and light out of the perspective of the body of a dancer and imagines choreography as a scenographic construct.

adriana.berwert[at]belop.ch

Photography: Jack Thomson

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