We are very pleased that the International Organization for Transition of Professional Dancers awards the Swiss dancer Thierry Jaquemet with this year’s Philippe-Braunschweig-Grant.

Educated at the Zurich University of the Arts, the now thirty-year-old looks back on an international career. After having been among the first classes to receive the state-recognised Federal Diploma of Proficiency as a dancer, he joined the National Ballet Company of Győr (Hungary). Tours and guest performances with the country’s second-biggest dance company brought him all across Hungary and Italy, to Germany and to Romania. He then became a demi-soloist with the Josef Kajetán Tyl Theatre in Pilsen (Czech Republic). Besides great ballet classics, this four-department theatre enabled him to dance in modern ballets and enriching multi-disciplinary collaborations, too.
Simultaniously, he started researching and publishing about dance history – a circumstance which helps him during his current transition process. „When I place one of my publications on the desk during a job interview, that helps potential employers outside the theatre world to better grasp my competences”, Thierry says.

He invests the IOTPD’s transition grant in a continued studies programme in arts management. This allows him to expand his practical experience by knowledge of the framework necessary for cultural production. „The studies expand my horizon by far. I do not only think about cultural projects from the perspective of a dancer, but consider their social relevance more and more”, he notes.